Marriage, change of name advice please

adamantine

i thought the point in getting married was to spend your life with someone after making a public declaration that you are devoting your lives to each other?

anyway no you dont need to go down the deed poll route. the certificate will be enough.

Fizzpop

cantbebothered2 wrote: »

double barreled surnames are a pet hate of mine!!!

why dont you want to take his name? i dont see the point of keeping your maiden name, thats the whole point of getting married is to take his name.
There is no way in the world i would let my wife keep her maiden name, no point in getting married then is there? she was not bothered about losing her maiden name anyway

GGRRR!!

My good god what stone did you crawl out from......

My husband to be has asked if he can take my name when we marry instead of the other way around.

Kira000

I went D- B when i married last year, as my DH's very unusual surname just sounded ridiculous by itself with my first name as they end with the same sound. Plus my surname is a dying name, as all girl children in my generation, so i wanted to keep it alive by keeping it and passing it on myself. DH didnt mind at all.
I didnt use deed poll. Just gave the new name at the banks, on passport, driving licence forms etc, backed up with the marriage certificate which showed my maiden and DH's surname. I wasnt named as D-B on the marriage cert.

callmechar

Thanks everyone, will just see if the banks, DVLA etc accept it. Hopefully they will. I wanted double barrelled as this is what my daughter has

MX5huggy

Is your husband going double barrelled as well? Only fair.

meritaten

The marraige cert is enough to change your name at the bank etc. dont forget passports and driving license too!
my cousin went double barreled when she got married - sounded lovely, one unusual name couple with a very very common name! her husband took that name too (but as he was the one with the common name I wasnt surprised!) and he kept it after the divorce!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

chiefpossession

My husband and I went double barrelled when we got married. I don't remember doing anything official - we just told everyone our new name. The only time it became an issue was when we were buying our next house and the land registry wanted to know if Miss X and Mr Y were Mr and Mrs X-Y. Interestingly our solicitor only recommended that my husband changed his name by deed poll - I didn't need to.

callmechar

Yes my husband (well soon to be husband) intends to change his name...its either that or change our daughters name by deed poll. I want all 3 of us to have the same names

Person_one

MX5huggy wrote: »

Is your husband going double barrelled as well? Only fair.

Its one of my favourite things in the world when men change their name too, but sadly they have a lot more hoops to jump through, the marriage certificate wouldn't be enough for him I don't think.

callmechar

Person_one wrote: »

Its one of my favourite things in the world when men change their name too, but sadly they have a lot more hoops to jump through, the marriage certificate wouldn't be enough for him I don't think.

Yeh I know, perhaps I will just take his surname and change my daughters by deed poll