<p>I changed mine to his in 1978, but I didn’t have a middle name so I use my maiden as a middle.</p>
<p>I was once in a baby sitting co-op with 2 hyphenated families, one had 2 boys and one had 2 girls. Aways wondered would happen if they married!</p>
<p>Emm…actually I meet the same question, and I also have no idea~</p>
<p>Married 1984, I kept my name. I’d have been willing to do a hyphen name if he’d been willing. In my mother’s family all the women used their maiden names as middle names. </p>
<p>Both my husband and I have relatively short names that are frequently misspelled and mispronounced.</p>
<p>Married the first time and kept my own name. Got divorced and then remarried in 1982 and figured I might have jinxed the first marriage by keeping my
name–so I took my current H’s name. Just to make things more confusing, I legally changed my first name and started using an initial and my middle name. So, I went from Susie Jones to S. Jane Doe.</p>
<p>Took my husbands–his is easy (actually common—never call American Airlines to find my Frequent Fyler #! There are 850 of me!)–</p>
<p>Weird story–My cousin married, and kept her name—she and H made a deal- all girls born would get her last name --all boys got his last name. Now divorced I guess keeping her name worked out—but man are the teachers of those kids in school confused!</p>
<p>Kept my maiden (easy) name to hypenate his weird last name. At least most people get part of it right :)</p>
<p>Married 1981.</p>
<p>I took Bullet’s last name, and of course his last name was like mine, easy to pronounce, but also to mis-spell. Our last name is a common product company, and people always ask if we are related. I always tell them if I was, do you think I would be here and not on the South of France? Always makes them chuckle!</p>
<p>The only thing that I miss about my maiden name is I use to be at the beginning of the alphabet, now I am at the end. When you start doing graduations, you all of the sudden realize there is a perk from the alphabetical standpoint as 300+ names are being announced.</p>
<p>Our DD has already announced that when she gets married she will keep our last name because of the cool factor. </p>
<p>OBTW married in 88.</p>
<p>Back to the engagement party–the invitation to the last one we attended (which was intended to to be an opportunity for the bride’s extended family to meet the groom and his parents and siblings) included info about the bridal registries. And so did the subsequent shower invitation and the wedding invitation. Pretty greedy, eh? We attended the engagement party and gave a modest gift from the registry, and then gave cash for the wedding, but there was no way I was attending the shower, too, and paying for a third gift. I hope this isn’t a trend. Inviting someone to more than one “gifty” pre-wedding event is just inappropriate.</p>