Mrs & Mrs Who...?

Question

Lesbian tongue twister.......Being rather fond of my own surname and having a girlfriend who also likes hers, whats best to do when we get married? and do we go by Mrs and Mrs or what??

Answer 1

I just read an article on MSN yesterday that says a lot of people are keeping their names that they had before marriage, or they're combining their last names to make a whole new last name and starting a tradion of their own in that way. (I don't mean hyphenating; for example if your last name were Martinez and hers was Cunningham you could combine them to make Martinham or something along those lines. Like I said just an example!)

Hope this helps - Congratulations!

Answer 2

It really depends on how strongly you feel about sharing a last name. Plenty of women choose not to take their husband's name, for whatever reason. (Some are very fond of their name, some have a professional reputation tied to their name, sometimes the husband's name is horribly long and hard to pronounce/spell.)

Try out some combinations of hyphenating them, and see if any feel right. You could also just have a double-last name, rather than hyphenating. My cousin did that with her daughter's name, so that the first one would sound like more of a middle name. (Might get confusing for other people though.)

Answer 3

When a man and a woman get married they will take her name and then put a hyphen in and then his name...So there is no reason you can't do the same thing...So now you just have to choose who's name is going to go where..Like if it was me and my hubby to be combining the name I would become Mrs. Sarah Madison-Gilkey..

Answer 4

How about a hyphen?

Mrs & Mrs Smith-Jones?

(HA! Just noticed the person above me has the same combination!)

Anyway, if you don't like the hypen, how about doing a combo? Smines as a combo of Smith and Jones?

Answer 5

while i replaced into addressing wedding ceremony invites, i replaced into advised it replaced into alphabetically by way of final call, and additionally you employ the call Ms. in spite of the incontrovertible fact that, that replaced into beforehand we actually had authorities acknowledged comparable intercourse marriages... now.. i think of this is: Outer: The Mesdames Rosie and Kellie O'Donnell inner: The Mesdames O'Donnell Granted .. that sounds somewhat stupid... i might pass with Mrs. Rosie and Mrs. Kellie O'Donnell, i don't be responsive to ways "applicable" this is.. And.. Mrs. implies "married" no longer that there is by some ability a Mr. in touch.

Answer 6

if you are both fond of your own surnames than keep it. Many straight women today do not take their husband's surname. I think that it is completely up to the individual.

Answer 7

You would be still be Mrs & Mrs. I also suggest with hyphenating. My other suggestion to hyphenating them would be the more dominant of the two of you surname would be the second name.

submissive-dominant.

Answer 8

Keep your own names. Hyphenated names get confusing. If a name is alphabetized, is it listed under S for Smith-Jones or under J for Jones.

Answer 9

When I got married to my husband, I had to have a copy of our marriage license in order to change my name. Depending on where you live, you might not be able to have a valid marriage license for your union, so you wouldn't be able to change your names anyway. I'd suggest keeping your own name.

Answer 10

You can each take the others name and keep yours (i.e. Mrs Smith-Jones)
Or just keep your own name - plenty of people do when they get maried!