Getting married- ? do I change my name

[Mr. Bloom]

I do agree that it is a choice, but I encourage you to involve your chosen partner in the deliberation and not make the choice alone

I know women who have kept their name, and some who hyphenated their name, and I know a man who created a new hyphenated name for both of them to take - and they're all still happily married.

The decision is not as important as how you arrive at it - Good Luck

But then, what do I know...Silver's name went from a singular body part to a plural of the same body part when she married me - it's very odd - so she even went a step farther...she DROPPED her "birth name"