Just got married. How do we double barrel our names?

McKneff

But legally as in the signing of the registrar it would be your legal name surely.

So it would be up to you to ask to be addressed as Brown Smith

The register would say Mr Brown married Miss Smith.

mildred1978

McKneff wrote: »

But legally as in the signing of the registrar it would be your legal name surely.

So it would be up to you to ask to be addressed as Brown Smith

The register would say Mr Brown married Miss Smith.

I'm not sure our registrar would have appreciated being signed!!!

The marriage gives the bride the right to use her husband's name if she wishes to. My "legal name" didn't change when I signed the register (what an odd idea). Legally, you can be known as anything you like.

Brighton_belle

McKneff wrote: »

But legally as in the signing of the registrar it would be your legal name surely.

So it would be up to you to ask to be addressed as Brown Smith

The register would say Mr Brown married Miss Smith.

You sign the register in your maiden name anyway. The marriage cert doesn't give any indication of what your name you are known by after marriage.

Wyre

Brighton_belle wrote: »

You sign the register in your maiden name anyway. The marriage cert doesn't give any indication of what your name you are known by after marriage.

This. The marriage certificate is just something to send the authorities telling them you have gotten married, and from now on you will be called X (or X-Y *grins*).

stebiz

claire16c wrote: »

And how exactly would you keep your own name and share your partners name without going double barelled? :rotfl:

You ditch your old name. All a bit odd if you ask me. My SIL has a double barrel, so her sons have a double barrel. So what happens if they meet a girl who has a double barrel name, and she wants to keep it.

:rotfl:

LondonDiva

stebiz wrote: »

You ditch your old name. All a bit odd if you ask me. My SIL has a double barrel, so her sons have a double barrel. So what happens if they meet a girl who has a double barrel name, and she wants to keep it.

:rotfl:

I know a very posh family, their surname includes seven different names. In day to day life and for signatures, they use the last two x-y and when booking taxis, they tend use y for ease.

When I asked, they explained the names came via both sides of the dad's family tree (mum had her own vvvv long name) and included family lines that had died out /in times gone past involved the husband taking the wife's name etc.

Tiddlywinks

jason1231972 wrote: »

I think I get what McKneff means. Double-barrelled surnames are traditionally the reserve of the upper classes/aristocracy.

Not any more - quite the opposite on some estates

thegirlintheattic

As long as you use the name for all official things from now on you don't need deedpoll. Write a letter to all concerned saying this is your new name. Some DVLA, banks etc. might need sight of your marriage certificate.

McKneff

Ah but, the upper classes with a double barrel have a hyphen don't you know:rotfl:

claire16c

McKneff wrote: »

But legally as in the signing of the registrar it would be your legal name surely.

So it would be up to you to ask to be addressed as Brown Smith

The register would say Mr Brown married Miss Smith.

But whats that got to do with what you are called after being married? As those are the names before you are married.

Whether or not you double barrell your name or take your husbands, or he took yours, you still have to write to people to say its changed.

Brighton_belle wrote: »

You sign the register in your maiden name anyway. The marriage cert doesn't give any indication of what your name you are known by after marriage.

Thats true.

Although we got married in the US which has a much better system.

You sign your names as your maiden names, but then you also write what names you will both be known as after marriage.

There were rules for what that could be i.e it couldnt be a completely new name, it had to be either one of your names, a double barrell name with or without hypen, or a new name that was made up with part of each of both partners names. For anything else you would have had to do something else, I guess their equivalent of a deedpoll, see a lawyer etc.

stebiz wrote: »

You ditch your old name. All a bit odd if you ask me. My SIL has a double barrel, so her sons have a double barrel. So what happens if they meet a girl who has a double barrel name, and she wants to keep it.

:rotfl:

And how does that answer the question of keeping your own name? Did you read what you wrote?

Then the girl would keep it. Simple.