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+1. Seriously?

You could always respond with something along the lines of what this guy did             http://300sandwiches.com/

It opens up some interesting possibilities for you.

i'll marry that girl myself.  i'll even take her last name.

Damn......now I fell like I got tricked into marrying my wife. 

Now that's love.

I have friends that both changed their last names to a new and totally made up name.  No, not a hybrid or a family name of any kind.  They are both avid cyclists.

They changed their last name name to ...

Velo.

Weird, awesome, you decide.

(I though it was crazy, simply as a former name changer who didn't realize how much a PITA it was to do).

I don't know man.  Isn't it kind of a slap in the face to the guy's mom & dad, grandparents, other family members etc. to say "screw the family name, carrying on the lineage, the legacy, etc, I'm making up my own name"??  Not just taking on my mate's name, but making up an entirely new name?

slaves to antiquated tradition!
just remember - not everyone WANTS to be a legacy to their family.  i was happy to marry off my maiden name.

But everyone is.....the good news is we all get to decide what that legacy will be.

Woah, not only can she apparently make a mean sammich or 300 but she's hot too...I'd get rid of my last name for that.  Sadly the sammiches probably stop with "I do".

I hear what you're saying there.  But would you have shed your maiden name for a made up name that had nothing to do with your husband's name?

Are sammiches a euphamism here?

sure, if he didn't want to keep his name either.  since my first name is marilyn, i would pick monroe.

So, on that note...

My wife's maiden name was Belew (pronounced Blew) and she insisted on using a hyphenated name.  I just snickered because her last name was "Belew-Underwood".  It was even funnier because I was in the Navy and my last name was pretty much my first name.

Any time somebody would call out her name, I'd make some comment such as "yes she did" and would quickly get punched.  That lasted about 30 days and she ditched the hyphenated name.  ;-)

If you have children, who's name do they take?  just curious.

 In my husband's family (Greeks) the kids take dad's name but the wife rarely changes her.  BUT the church ( I know!) decrees the kids have to take the dad's name.

My sister has a daughter and isn't married but her daughter has dad's name.

I changed my name coz i didn't mind the new one.  If it had been ridiculous i wouldn't have.  it had no real meaning as such.

Originally posted by Maui

If you have children, who's name do they take?  just curious.

That's a different issue completely irrelevant to a girl taking the husband's last name. A family might decide to name their kid Junior Dadlastname or Junior Momlastname or Junior Dadlastname Momlastname or any combination being hyphened or not. And as the other case, we can't judge the love, unity, integrity, etc that family has or lacks. But if you must know, and in order to keep this thread on track with the original subject, send me a PM or start a different thread and I''ll answer either way.

Uh......I'm not THAT curious.

I'm sure glad I got married 21 years ago and didn't have to think about any of this stuff.  

As mentioned earlier, my wife thought about the hyphenated name for a few weeks because she was fairly strong willed (ok, she still is).  I think I fell along the lines of not caring one way or the other due to her being the right person no matter what she wanted to call herself.

I do think it makes society a little more organized if both parents have the same last name and the kids all have the same last name.  It's not a big deal, but from a schools and just general friends sense it is a little more organized.  Oh, your name is Cruz, are you related to Becky?  Yeah, she's my sister, etc...

However with Divorce, re-marriage, divorce, re-marriage, divorce, re-marriage things do get quite complicated in today's society.  My daughter has one friend who has a Step-Dad with one last name, a Mom with a hyphenated last name (from a previous marriage) and 4 siblings all from different dads with different last names.  Talk about confusing.