As most of you probably know, Adam and I aren't a very traditional couple. A great thing about modern marriage is that it's open for us to define. We create the rules of our relationship and we shape what marriage is to us.
Part of that will be a name change. Adam and I have both decided, after we get married to change our last names.
We'll both hyphenate our names to be "Tan-Ceja" so that way neither of us is giving up our identities or our name ties to our family but we'll still have the traditional same family name. Both of us are really happy and excited with this decision.
Maybe we're just lucky that we both have such short last names. Can you imagine if they were long names? We'd end up having a ten syllable name!
To go along with all of this, the entire reason I've explained all of this, is because we recently bought services to a new website called MissnowMrs.com. They have all of the forms necessary for changing a last name based on marriage. You answer all of their questions and they put all the info into the forms, you print it out, send it, and ta-da! A formerly pain in the butt hassle of a process simplified! And did you know that there are only 8 US states that accept a man changing his last name due to marriage? That sounds a little unfair, if you ask me. But thankfully, California is one of those 8!
I can't wait until we get married and can change our names. A sort of strange thing to be looking forward to...
Part of that will be a name change. Adam and I have both decided, after we get married to change our last names.
We'll both hyphenate our names to be "Tan-Ceja" so that way neither of us is giving up our identities or our name ties to our family but we'll still have the traditional same family name. Both of us are really happy and excited with this decision.
Maybe we're just lucky that we both have such short last names. Can you imagine if they were long names? We'd end up having a ten syllable name!
To go along with all of this, the entire reason I've explained all of this, is because we recently bought services to a new website called MissnowMrs.com. They have all of the forms necessary for changing a last name based on marriage. You answer all of their questions and they put all the info into the forms, you print it out, send it, and ta-da! A formerly pain in the butt hassle of a process simplified! And did you know that there are only 8 US states that accept a man changing his last name due to marriage? That sounds a little unfair, if you ask me. But thankfully, California is one of those 8!
I can't wait until we get married and can change our names. A sort of strange thing to be looking forward to...
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