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08-25-2008, 10:59 PM
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#21 | | Full Member
Join Date: Mar 2008 Age: 27 Location: Kelowna, BC Wedding Date: Dec 30, 2008 Wedding Location: Maui, Hawaii
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karma: 1 |  Re: Changing your name
I am keeping my maiden name for professional purposes (I'm a teacher and have a much easier name for kids to pronounce- Matte, pronounced like the finish). FI's last name is not difficult, but is not French and I teach French so I like to keep it that way. I will take it for legal purposes I think.. although in Canada even if you change your legal name you can still always legally sign or identify yourself with your maiden name.
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08-26-2008, 12:05 AM
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#22 | | Banned
Join Date: Feb 2008 Age: 29 Location: Harleysville (outside Philadelphia) Wedding Date: Halloween 2008 Wedding Location: Charleston, South Carolina
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karma: 0 | Re: Changing your name
I am not changing either... there are no issues with it either. The only people who have had a problem are "other" people, friends, other family members but Tim has had NO issue with me not taking his last name. It's not that I don't like it.... I would be going from Scottish to Irish, it's for professional and personal reasons.... I LIKE my name... and I LOVE my signature.....ahhahaha!
And I really don't sign his last name very well anyway....ahaha!
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08-26-2008, 12:06 AM
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#23 | | Full Member
Join Date: Mar 2008 Age: 24 Location: Canada Wedding Date: Dec 18, 2010 OR May 22, 2011 Wedding Location: Jamaica?
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karma: 1 | Re: Changing your name
Not planning on changing mine. My name has publications attached to it, so it's really important to me that I keep it.
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08-26-2008, 01:28 AM
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#24 | | Eric*a*licious*
Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Alberta, Canada Wedding Date: November 30, 2008 Wedding Location: Grand Palladium Palace, Punta Cana, D.R
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karma: 2 | Re: Changing your name
I have been humming and hawing about this. I would like to make my last name and make it a middle name just like we did with our kids, but then I have to legally change my name rather than just assume his lastname. That is why you can go by either name up here in Canada. If you assume your husbands name, it is legal yet it is not a legal name change!
I really like my initials "ET" and don't want to give them up, and ever since I started looking into my geneology, I really like my lastname (even though people usually say it wrong) and to me, that is me!
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09-18-2008, 11:00 AM
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#25 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: K-W, Ontario Wedding Date: January 22, 2009 Wedding Location: RIU Bachata, Puerto Plata, DR
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karma: 1 | Re: Changing your name
I am changing my last name. I don't feel particularly attached to it...it is my fathers name & he is a bit of an ass! So I am kind of happy to be rid of it! Plus I like the way Amanda Merrigan sounds! I just feel bad for my mom...when her & my dad got divorced she kept his name because she didn't want to have a diff name than me...now I'm changing mine & she's stuck with my dad's!! She feels like she is to old to be messing around with her names now! I feel so bad!
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09-18-2008, 11:11 AM
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#26 | | Member
Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: PA Wedding Date: Oct 28 & Nov 6 2007 Wedding Location: Dreams Cancun
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karma: 2 | Re: Changing your name
Haven't and will not change mine!
I was in med school when we got engaged and I said that if we get married before I get my degree, maybe I'll change it and if after, deffinitely not! When we actually got engaged, I thought about it and decided that no matter what, I'm not changing my name. Hubby was a bit upset about it at first but then thought about it and said that it's my name and I should do whatever feels right to me. He really knows me too well! I seriously cannot be pushed into something I dont want! Major  queen!
So after we got married, I told him that I dont mind changing my name if he feels strongly about it AND does all the foot/paper work associated with it b/c I deffinitely will not. His reponse was: please keep your name!!!!!! :) LOL I figured that this is something I can do at any point in our married life if I all of a sudden feel strongly about it!
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