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My primary personal e-mail address has my maiden name initial, I didn't see a reason to change it.

@MsLipGloss: Same-- I kept my maiden name hotmail account to use as my junk mail address. My married name gmail account (which I created as soon as we got engaged but didn't use right away) is only for actual people I know. I like keeping them separate now.
My work email changed when I changed everything with work.

Yep! I actually signed up for my new gmail address right after we got engaged so I could have it ready and no one else would take it!

I did but that was actually because I had still been using my student email from college and it was set to be deactivated about two months after we got married.

The email address I used prior to marriage only used my first name. A few months after we married I got a firstlast@yahoo account. Thankfully my married last name is very unusual so I didn't have to worry about it being taken.

Nope!

@mrbee: I have thought about that but I heard that gmail doesn't forward emails. I haven't looked into yet. I mean only been 2 1/2 years, maybe I should get on that.

Yep! Both my personal and work e-mails are new.

I married youngish (21) and still had a ridiculous hotmail account with a address I thought was very cool when I was a teenager. So yeah, I was fine with switching it!

I made a new email address when I got married

I use my maiden name gmail account for junk mail and my married name gmail for real correspondance.

My maiden name is actually the same as B-List actress and I get a quite a bit of her emails about scripts, festivals, etc. It's kind of fun :o) And coincidentally, it's also the same name as someone on SATC after they got married.

I did. I had a gmail before so it was really easy to just forward messages to my new gmail.

My work one is still my maiden name. I went from a super common easy to say/spell name to a really unheard of/impossible to spell name. I am in sales so having an email that would be hard for customers to spell is keeping me from changing it at work. That, and I have about 500 business cards to use with my maiden name/email. Once I run out I will probably change it at work too.

@CarrieLouWho: ok I think I figured out who you're talking about, and that's pretty cool!

I still use my maiden name because I couldn't get a good gmail with my married name. I do have one, and I used it for job searching (so it matched my resume) and now I just have everything forwarded to the old gmail acct.

I changed my name but kept my maiden name gmail. My new last name is much more common so I would have had to add numbers or make it original somehow. My old one is just firstlast. It kind of makes me happy to still have my maiden name around.

I got an email account with my married name.

Gmail makes this EXTREMELY difficult unless you want to start from scratch with a whole new account. I have been using my gmail address personally and professionally for 5+ years so I have a ton of emails archived, and there is no way to transfer them to a new account. I did change my "display" email name so that it comes from my new name, but the email address remains the same.

I know that you can create a new email address and have it forwarded to your old one, but that seemed really unnecessary. Occasionally the fact that my email address has a different name confuses people, but it's been fine. Just slightly annoying and I wish Google of all places had a better solution for this.

Yes, but I still use both. My maiden name e-mail is my "junk" e-mail.