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| I'm getting married in May and I plan on taking my husband last name. It's better then the one I have now. Chouinard verus Steele. |
| posted by Chelle on 02/09/2008 09:52 AM |
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| i like tradition |
| posted by Jamie on 02/10/2008 10:57 PM |
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| I agree, I am all for tradition, and I think it's a vow of importance you are taking when you take your husband's last name. |
| posted by twinmommyathome on 02/11/2008 02:43 AM |
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| Ditto to all the above. I stand by tradition. That's how marriage has always been. |
| posted by Amanda on 02/12/2008 01:52 PM |
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| I believe your background, your family life, and how you were raised encapsulates you, makes you who you are. I believe that you do not loose your identity when you enter a marriage, but gain a new part of your life, and therefore I hyphenate my name. |
| posted by Lisa on 02/12/2008 11:10 PM |
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| I believe in tradition. |
| posted by on 03/15/2008 09:22 PM |
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| I wanted to retain my previous identity (partly for professional reasons) but keep tradition, so I changed my middle name to my maiden name and took his last name. That way I can say all three names if I want my maiden name included, but I'm not forced to say or write it every time (or run out of spaces when filling in forms, etc). It isn't cumbersome and won't cause a problem when my children marry...how many names get added? |
| posted by Denise on 05/06/2008 12:33 AM |
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| My name didn't sound very good hyphenated. I believe that each person gives and takes in a marriage. I took my husband's name and I gave him a child. Another twist on the maiden name that my husband's aunt came up with...She gave her first child her maiden name for his first name. |
| posted by Katie on 05/18/2008 09:21 AM |
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| I hyphenate my name. I have had my surname for 33 years and it is who I am. I also did the same with my son, and gave him my grandfathers surname as a middle name. He is named after him and was born on his birthday. If my papa were alive I believe he would have been proud. |
| posted by Rae on 06/09/2008 01:14 AM |
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| I have been married twice, so when I got remarried I kept my ex husbands last name, and added on my new husbands. The reason I did this was because I have kids from my ex husband and I wanted to have the same last name as them. And didn't want them to feel awkward because we all had different last names. My husband didn't mind, so it works for us. |
| posted by Jessica on 09/05/2008 11:11 AM |
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| I rock his last name!!! |
| posted by Mary on 11/09/2008 09:24 PM |
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| We were debating coming up with a seperate name that we would both change our last names to, but in the end I decided that taking his would feel romantic to me, and I wanted our daughter to have his last name, and that sealed it. |
| posted by Mandy on 01/06/2009 12:06 AM |
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| My first husband I combined names. I took my current husbands last name completely. |
| posted by Heather on 01/06/2009 01:47 PM |
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| I took my husbands last name. I was happy to do it but i do miss my last name i liked it. |
| posted by Rachel on 01/14/2009 07:47 PM |
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| Europen/German tradition--my heritage is to hyphenate--and I follow that tradition! |
| posted by Missy on 02/20/2009 11:28 AM |
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I hyphenated mine I wish I stood with one because its long....lol
anyway i'm proud to have both |
| posted by Melissa on 04/24/2009 10:38 PM |
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| When I was getting married I was teaching in the public schools, therefore most of my student's knew me with my maiden name. I decided to hyphenate my last name with my husbands, he didn't seem to mind, however, he did not like the ideal of our children's name being hyphenated, so they have his last name. |
| posted by Yvonne on 05/13/2009 12:03 AM |
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| I'm traditional... |
| posted by Maria on 05/19/2009 10:11 PM |
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| I'm Italian so when I took my husbands last name it was weird! Ramos......I had Spanish speaking people call my phone and I had no clue what they were saying. lol His grandpa is from Portugal and no one speaks spanish on his side either. It was just funny getting used to it. But, I'm glad I took his name. I agree with Maria. I like traditional. |
| posted by JENNIFER on 12/31/2009 07:31 PM |
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| I prefered my husbands last name, so I dropped the old happily! |
| posted by brandi on 03/24/2010 04:08 PM |
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| I took my husbands last name. If I had known that his ex wife had NOT legally changed her name back to her maiden name, I may have just kept my maiden name. She also has the same first name as I do and her bills are now reporting on my credit. |
| posted by Amanda on 09/01/2011 10:06 PM |
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| I hyphened my name because I am proud of my family history and wanted to continue with my given name. I also embraced my husbands family by taking his name. So I have captured both families in my name. This also helped in my professional career. Now the US needs to be more accepting of Hyphened names, cause it does cause problems in the computer systems. |
| posted by Kristie on 11/17/2011 01:15 PM |
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