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My husband and I have been together a month, but what with all the big life changes (unexpected pregnancy) we've been dealing with, I sort of forgot about changing my name. I haven't done a thing in that direction, besides change it on facebook :)
When did you start the name change process?
We've also been married a month (today!) and I haven't started the name change process. I'm planning on doing SS and DL next week and try to take care of everything else as I go. However, my boss was super excited about our wedding, so all my work stuff (phone number, email, mail box, etc...) was changed before we got back from the honeymoon! Lol, she's just really enthusiastic. :)
There's also another woman in my office who eloped a couple weeks after we got married, and she already has half the name change stuff done! I feel like such a slacker...
4+ years.
I changed my name on my social and driver's license 2 1/2 years after getting married, and I have yet to change it on anything else. I've even traveled internationally with my maiden name passport and had no problem! But I'm going to change it when I get back from the Cayman Islands... I promise! 
It took about 6 months after our wedding for me to start. But once I started with the DMV, SS, and Passport, I was on a roll and it took about 4 weeks total to change everything legally (including credit cards, bank accounts, insurance, student loans, etc).
The only I haven't changed is my gmail account since someone else took my name!! wha! I even contemplated emailing that person and offering $50 for the account. But DH was like "Who the hell would sell their email account?" Oh well!
I got married almost 9 months ago and I did my SS card, passport, and last week just barely did my license, but so far that's it. Now I have to change all the other little accounts like banks and credit cards...it sure does take forever to do it all!
I started mine quickly, I guess. I changed my name with social security and on my drivers license last week (our wedding was 3 weeks ago) and I'm going today to change it at HR for my job. I did my credit cards and banks last week and this week. The only place left is school--I'll be changing it there on Friday when I have the afternoon off.
For me, I felt like if I waited to do it, I wouldn't do it. I wanted to get it changed and done with before I could think about it too much. ;)
I just finished the SS and DMV on Monday after getting married 2 1/2 months ago. My job was super busy until last week so I couldn't take a day off to get it done! I just finished the process of getting my new email and everything at work since I'm switching territories and customers next week. New customers, new name. They'll never even know. It's been just little things at a time, but I'm glad to see an end in sight!
We're two days away from our 6-month anniversary and I have yet to do a thing. For whatever reason, none of the marriage license documents that we have (the application we filled out and the license the pastor signed) have "December Hisname" on it, just "December Hername" and the SSA needs to have a piece of identification in each name to make the change. So now I have to order a record from the state records house and hope that it says "December Hisname" on it.
Our wedding is in about a month, I'm already getting everything prepared and ready to go. I can't wait to change my name!!
I'm using www.missnowmrs.com Big help!
We have been married 3 months and I have done the Social security and DMV, but that is about it. I changed it on my email signature at work, but not the account name or anything else. I just kind of ran out of steam.
Though It is a little strange to kind of switch back and forth. I signed my stepdaughter out of camp last week and used my maiden name, she said, "You signed the wrong name". After 30 years it is automatic.
I just need to get around to the passport, work change, bank etc....
I teach, so I've been able to do it over the summer. I started changing it about 2 months after the wedding, starting with Social Security, then my driver's license, and slowly getting my credit cards and bank info. changed. It is a process, and it can get expensive! I'm not changing my passport because it's something like $75, and we don't travel enough to warrant that.
I got married on June 6. I've changed my license, SS card, bank accounts, car insurance, health insurance, frequent flyer account, credit card, and HR documents. I'm still waiting to get some copies of my marriage license before I can change some savings accounts and I still need to switch over my life insurance. I'm waiting to do my passport since some places want me to have a legal document with my old name on it just to prove my former identity.
@ December -- Did you ask your SS office if you need to have your Firstname Hislastname on your marriage document? I didn't have that, and it wasn't a problem. Our license just had my maiden name and his full name along with our birthdays and wedding days. However, the SS people accepted it along with a passport (maiden name) and driver's license (married name).
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I'm waiting until we come back from our honeymoon in Europe to start the process. That'll be about 2.5 months after the wedding, if I do right away. I didn't want to mess with the name/identity issue while we were travelling abroad.
Today is our 3 month anniversary and I still haven't changed it! We are in the process of buying a house and I'm about to take the bar, so I didn't want the change to complicate these processes! It will probably be about 4 or 5 months before I do it!
I went right after getting the marriage license back to the social security office. I got my card back only about a week after that so two weeks in all for the official stuff. I haven't had time to change my name on accounts or insurance yet since they ask for a bunch of other things and I can't change my license yet!
After 6 months of procrastinating, I paid $35 on missnowmrs.com b/c I just didn't know where to start and was sick of putting it off. It took me another 2 months to take time off of work to go to Social Security (I didn't want to do it by mail) and the DMV to take care of those two big things, then I sent all the form letters to my credit card companies, bank, and utilities companies. It was kind of nice that I did it all in one fell swoop so now my married name is on pretty much everything. The last thing I have left to do is get a new passport.
Be sure to do it before your baby is born so your married name is on the birth certificate!
Forever. ;-) I was married for nearly 20 years, and never changed my name. I'm not planning on changing it this time, either.
A year before it was officially changed, but I started using the new name socially right away.
We actually got married last Monday for insurance purposes (I've been very ill the last six months and currently unemployed) although our wedding isn't until October...but, since I didn't have much to do last Wednesday...I headed to the DMV and SS office and was done under 1.5 hours. I was ready to change my passport as well, except I remembered that I have two flights booked under maiden name, so I will keep my maiden name on the passport and change it after our honeymoon in October.
Congrats on your wedding, emg! Even if the "real" wedding isn't until October, it's still exciting that you're now "officially" married :-)
Hmmm.... quite the variety here!
Almost exactly a month after the wedding I took a day off and went to my local SS office. I got the new card today -- a week after I went in, including a day off for the Fourth! Next stop is the new driver license. I have one credit card already changed -- they just needed an email from me -- and the others I will mail a copy of my new license.
I think what will take the longest is finding all the stragglers, things I don't think about, like Netflix. We'll see how long it takes in general. So far it's been incredibly easy and the hardest thing was committing to doing it.
I got married on June 20th and had my work email set up by the time I got back to work. Also had them do my business cards before the wedding. I have to wait to get the certified marriage licensce before I can do anything else but as soon as I do I am headed out to SS and DMV to get it changed. Check where you live though, alot of places you have to go to SS before you can go to DMV. I think the majority of other stuff I can do online or over the phone so I just need to change bills & bank info so it shouldnt take too long. I am very anxious to change my name, I already sort-of did at work (with email and signature) but I cant legally until I go to SS and the DMV.
@cupcake yeah, i have this sneaking suspicion that I'll be in the SS office 3 days before the baby is due. I'm a horrible procrastinator.
1 Day, seriously. I took our marriage license that the officiant signed down to the probate court and received our marriage certificate right away. The officiant/pastor does not have to mail it in if you want it changed right away. That took an hour and that includes drive time, parking, waiting and drive back. Then headed to the SSA office and that took 20 minutes total with the wait, 10 people in front of me. You dont get your card for about a week but they give you a form that is accepted by everyone including the BMV and thats where I went next and that took about 30 minutes only bc of computer problems, then to the bank, 10 mins. The major, most important stuff...less than 3 1/2 hours. It is not that tedious and people think there is so much to it but really is not. I have been updating bills, work etc as I go but I am officially changed and it was easy. You do NOT need to use any offer or website, dont waste your money. I was really anxious to change our name you could say and had to add him to my insurance and did not want to wait or anything to be delayed.
About 2 weeks after we got married, I went to the SS office. In case you didn't know, they'll issue you a nice little document that you can take with you to the DMV if necessary. Then I went to the DMV two days ago and to my school today. Hopefully credit cards and bank accounts will happen within the next week.
It's a little over a year after the wedding, and I still haven't changed it. It seems like such a PITA!!!
I've gotten most of it done in under a month--social security, the DMV, bank and for work (email, payroll, health insurance, etc.). Just got the new drivers license today, so I can send photocopies to my car insurance company.
I'm not sure if I'm forgetting anything, although I'm not planning on changing my passport since it seems pretty pricey. I think I might be able to just travel on my maiden name with that until it's time to renew.
I had most of the important stuff done (SSN, DMV) about 3 months after. It's about 3.5 months now and I'm still finishing some random accounts I have out there and one bank account.
We got married on August 1st. I applied for health insurance under my husbands plan with my married name on the 10th, and changed it with SSA on the 13th. I still need to go to DMV and change the name on my bank accts though. hoping to have it finished by the end of the month. Apparently after 90 days you can be fined for "freud" if you continue to go by a different name than that on your marriage license.
@MissCamera...I never heard of that you can be commiting fraud if you dont go buy your marriage license name. The license does not change your name. You dont legally have to and the only legal way to change your name is through SSA and DMV.
Working on it! All i'm waiting on is 2 debit cards to come in with my new name (couldn't order them until i got my original marriage license back, but the passport bureau had it for 6 weeks)
And, i applied to grad school right before marriage, so my grad school stuff is all in my maiden name. It feels more normal now that most of my documents are in my married name. I still catch myself wanting to use my maiden name (My last initial is still S, so it's hard to make that adjustment b/c my maiden name slips out sometimes) but i'm getting more and more used to it the more i say it out loud and use it
Maybe by Christmas? =]
I do not plan on changing my name at all. My FH is not happy about this so I am still pondering the idea of hyphenating my name but a long time down the road. Maybe when our kids start asking questions about why our names are different.
I changed it on my Drivers License, but only because mine was expiring & I needed a new one. Other than that, nope...still haven't done it!
We're 2 months out. I was supposed to change my name when I renewed my license, but I procrastinated too long with the SS office. Since my license expires on Saturday (my birthday!!) I had to just renew online with my old name (to avoid retaking the test), then I'll go and replace it sometime in October when things calm down at work.
@MissGreen- I just know that my SIL had to pay a fine for not changing her name over within the 90 day window. So I'm making sure I have everything in order within 90 days so that I dont need to pay a fine.
10 days? I got married on Aug 15th, got back from my honeymoon on Saturday night, and I was in the SSA office this morning. :)
From start to finish, it took me about 6 months. I would recommend (1) getting several certified copies of your marriage certificate (2) changing with the Social Security Admin (3) changing passport & driver's license, (4) changing accounts, etc.
Good luck, and congrats on your pregnancy!
Ugh, I was really DREADING changing my name. It seems like it would be a HUGE pain. But the other day I just told myself it was now or never (especially since I'm now on Mr. PP's insurance under my married name!), so I forced myself to go downtown to the SSA. It's officially changed there, but I still need to do my driver's license, bank, etc.
I'm excited to have Mr. Powder Puff's name, but just thinking about all the work that goes into changing just makes me want to lie down and take a nap. I've even had fantasies that we were one of those couples that just happened to have the same last name, so I wouldn't have to go through the trouble to change it! How nice would that be? :)
I've changed it with SS (2.5 weeks after) the DMV and bank (3 weeks after) and on my lease (about a month after). I still need to get it changed on most of my credit cards and my passport.
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