Getting married- ? do I change my name

[trinena]

i kept my last name - it is unusual-hard for most people to pronounce-and i always have to spell it out-but it's part of my cultural heritage and i love it. i dropped my middle name - which i hate - and replaced it with his last name.

my husband dropped his middle name and replaced it with my last name. no hyphens. we haven't done the official paperwork for the changes yet.

my pet peeve: in correspondence being addressed as MRS. his first name & last name. it makes me want to give a quickie women's studies class.

& we def. feel like we're a team.

[Grog]

i kept my last name - it is unusual-hard for most people to pronounce-and i always have to spell it out-but it's part of my cultural heritage and i love it. i dropped my middle name - which i hate - and replaced it with his last name.

That's quite cool. I wish I had thought about that.

[mayanorange]

my pet peeve: in correspondence being addressed as MRS. his first name & last name. it makes me want to give a quickie women's studies class.

Too true!! I don't care what last name you slap on there and can even forgive one or both of them being slaughtered in spelling (they're not that hard, but wow), but the not even being worthy of having my own first name convention is weird.....

Granted, my gramma had return labels of Mrs. Frank DHname even after grandpa died, but them's were different times.