Any brides changing their name going to miss their Maiden name?

screamer

I was actually depressed at the thought of changing my "maiden name!" That's in inverted commas because I was adopted at aged 14 and really never wanted to change it. After thinking about it for a year and a half I decided that my new surname, and indeed my marriage, is going to be the start of an entirely new stage in my life and now I'm quite excited about it. My parents are the traditional sort anyway so they don't mind, I was just sentimentally attached to my name and now I've gotten over that I'm OK. My middle name is the feminine version of my dad's first name anyway (how's that for coincidence?) and I can't have children so the family name isn't going to be passed on from us anyway so all is well.

How sad am I? lol

Hollie84

mildred1978 wrote: »

This makes no sense. Are you marrying your stepfather?

Why is it whenever i seem to post u always seem to pop up?? it makes perfect sense if u can read! what an absolute stupid thing to write

mildred1978

Hollie84 wrote: »

I think i will

you think you will what?

Hollie84 wrote: »

as i have only had my last name since i was 9 as my mum re-married and the guy she married became my stepdad and adopted me and he is wonderful so think thats the main reason as i kind of feel honoured to have take his name

Whose name?

A full stop or comma every now and then might help people to understand what you are trying to say.

The above reads that your stepfather is a wonderful man whose name you will be proud to take. Except you already have his name. And you don't mention your OH.

So how are we supposed to understand what you are trying to say??!

mildred1978

Hollie84 wrote: »

Why is it whenever i seem to post u always seem to pop up??

Actually, I posted here first!! :rotfl:

swampduck

I will miss my maiden name - I reverted back to it after I got divorced 10 years ago.
My married name meant I had to completely change my signature so it was nice to get back to an easy signature.
But now I have to start all over again!! Some letters of the alphabet are just not made to join up easily are they!!!

Swampy

BellyDuJour

Ooh Fawny, you're getting married in the same place I did in 2008!

catalunya

I am very much looking forward to changing my name - I have a name that needs to be spelt out and I am going to be taking on a very common name which also happens to make my name shorter! Yay! Oh and it'll be nice to not have to go "no, its spelt W-I...." when I am on the phone!

The only sad thing about changing my name is that in my family, all of my generation are girls and once I am married and my cousin is married, there will none of us left to carry on!

Emmylou_2

I'm looking forward to being Mrs OHLastName, even though I've had this one 35 years. I considered changing my surname in my late teens/early 20s (to my grandmother's maiden name) because my father is seriously toxic, and I wanted nothing to do with him, but in the end I couldn't be bothered.

I don't have the "Mrs OHLastName" being his mum, because both OH's parents were GPs and therefore Dr OHLastName. OH's paternal grandmother lived with them for a while and so if a call came through for Mrs OHLastName (rather than Dr), and futureMIL was in one of those moods, then granny would take the call.

Signature-wise, I really should practice - like we all (I hope ) as a teenager!

Dan:_4

White_Sapphire wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl:

And for generations, a wife was thought of as being nothing more than her husband's property, so should we continue with that tradition too?

I don't think that is true, not in the Western world anyway.

I just wonder why that these days families are happy to all have different surnames.

White_Sapphire

Dan: wrote: »

I don't think that is true, not in the Western world anyway.

I just wonder why that these days families are happy to all have different surnames.

Really? Do you not wonder where the tradition of the bride's father 'giving away' the bride to her new husband came from?

Why does it bother you whether or not a family all have the same name, and whether or not they're happy with that? How is it your business?