Wedding Planning Tips for Brides -- from iVillage Wedding Expert Anne Chertoff
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The Name Game
Have you thought about what you’re going to do about your last name? Are you definitely taking his? Are you thinking of adding a hyphen? Is he taking your last name? Or maybe the two of you decided to both change your last names to something similar to what you have now. (That’s what we did.)
No matter how you decide to change your name, there’s a lot of paper work you’ll need to fill out. In addition to your driver’s license, you’ll have to change your name on your Social Security Card, all your credit cards, your passport and about a dozen other government issued and personal accounts.
To help you make the transition from Miss to Mrs. smoother, sign-up with MaidenNameChange.com. For $29.95, the site will streamline the process so you won’t forget to notify anybody important about your new last name. It will create form letters for you to mail to the necessary agencies, as well as automatically fill-out paperwork for you.
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Call me old fashioned but to me the only way should be the wife taking on the husband's last name, it's easier no confusions, no running into not enough space in forms for hyphenated ones and specially keeping mine and my kids not having my same last name! oh no! he he. And changing both? never even heard of that one, you decided to both drop both your last names and get a new one? I'm not even sure how you do that? that's new to me!
i totally agree stephanie.
Call me old fashioned too, but I think the wife should take the husband's last name too. I can understand the transition to a new last name in the work place can be challenging but for awhile you can refer yourself by both names until people get familiar with your 'new name' and then you can drop your old name. I am proud to share the same name as my husband.