(Closed) Keep your middle name, or drop it when you get married?

• Uscgirl09
• 5 years ago

• Wedding: June 2015 - Brakefield

I’m going to drop my maiden name and keep my last name. My maiden name is a family name, so it means so much to me.

• TaraMay_
• 5 years ago

• Wedding: May 2014

I kept my middle name and dropped my maiden name. 

• Yipeebee
• 5 years ago

• Wedding: May 2014

Love my new last name! Kept my middle name. I wish my middle name was my first name. Ha hate my first name. Its super super boring.

• KYbridetobe
• 5 years ago

• Wedding: July 2015 - Museum

I’m debating the same thing! I definitely don’t want to completely drop my maiden name, so I will make it a middle name. But what do I do with my current middle name – drop or keep?!

• vivaciousbride1989
• 5 years ago

• Wedding: August 2015

Why not hyphenate? I like my middle name and last name, so I’m hyphenating. I think it’s a good alternative if you want to keep your middle and last name.

• JsDragonfly
• 5 years ago

• Wedding: December 2009

I made my maiden name a second middle name.  Definitely not the norm where I’m from, but I couldn’t imagine giving up any part of the name that had been a part of me for so long.

• jb2015
• 5 years ago

• Wedding: August 2015

BookTea:  Just because I don’t understand it, doesnt mean I dont respect others choice to do what they prefer… the post is looking for thoughts on the topic and that’s what I gave. 

• This reply was modified 4 years, 11 months ago by  jb2015.

• ComputerLove06
• 5 years ago

• Wedding: August 2015 - Alexander Homestead

Not dropping anything just adding on new last name so new legal name will become 4 names/30 letters in ALL!! Crazy, I know, but My first, middle, and maiden names are all of personal significance to me so I can’t part with any of them.