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I was just curious. There are alot of posts about changing, not changing, combining last names.

My FI and I are both changing our last names. We went over all the grandparents and picked the one we liked best.

(mine is greek and 12 letters so too long, and his fathers name is not something he's proud of.)

I was just wondering if other people have done this or knew someone that did?

I was actually about to post (kind of) the same question...

I want to keep my last name but want to take his too, so I'll hyphenate.... and he wants to do the same!!!

Is that a bit weird?? I mean, I love it that he wants to do that, but will people find it weird????

@mrsBtoBee: I don't think it's weird!  A little unconventional, but whatever!  It's what my FI and I are planning to do.

We were initially going to go through the family trees and find something, but when you add the hassle, the cost and the potential issues years down the road if something doesn't get linked to your new name, we decided against it.  We still have a ways to go, but the point we're at right now is to hyphenate both.  Apparently, etiquette says I should be mylast-hislast, but we're not going that route; we'll be hislast-mylast, despite the fact the various family members have told us we're "not supposed to do it that way".

@melisandescott: ahh i'm glad to hear me and my FI are not the only ones, then :)

We'll probably do mylast-hislast as we're only a tiny bit unconventional ;)

@melisandescott: just out of curiosity, why are you doing hislast-yourlast? is it because it sounds better, or any other special reason?

@mrsBtoBee: It's actually a pretty silly reason.  My last name is pronounced like a woman's first name, so by putting his last name first, it actually flows better.  Otherwise he'd be hisname woman's name-last name, and it just doesn't sound right.

Incidentally, his brother's wife hyphenated as well.  She was initially going to be herlast-hislast, however by doing that it actually sounded like a really funny phrase, so she swapped also, and she's hislast-herlast.

ahh i feel better about both of us changing out names now :)