Post # 1
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Blushing bee
- Wedding: April 2016 - NYC
Hi bees,
My Fiance and I are going to Europe for our honeymoon next July (we are getting married in April). My concern is Fiance saw on Iceland Air’s website (the airline we will likely be taking) it says that the name when you book the flight must be the same as the name when you board. Thus, if we book the flight in the next couple months, which we are planning, my name will not be the same when we travel.
Any other bees dealing with this, and do you have a solution? I would really like to be able to be able to do my name change when we apply for our marriage license and get my passport updated, but I’m concerned that it may cause problems with our international honeymoon.
We are planning on flying through Iceland to Rome, spend several days in Rome, then take a 7-day western Mediterranean cruise out of Rome on Norwegian, and then return to Rome and fly to Paris for several days before flying back to NYC via Iceland.
Post # 2
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2238 posts
Buzzing bee
lindzmarie: You should have enough time between April and July to get your passport changed. When you book the tickets, book using your married name.
My DH and I went on our honeymoon 6 weeks after our wedding, and I was nervous there wouldn’t be enough time to get everything in order so I put off changing anything until we got back. That’s your other option.
Post # 3
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Bumble bee
We took our “honeymoon” six months later. I just waited until after that trip to change my name so I wouldn’t have to worry about it or pay for a new passport.
Post # 4
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Blushing bee
- Wedding: April 2016 - NYC
annb9: I didn’t think of just booking with my married name….is that legal? I’ll definitely have to look into that!!
I am not super concerned about the passport for the honeymoon (I’m more concerned about an international conference I need to attend 4-1/2 weeks after our wedding….).
Post # 5
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Bee Keeper
lindzmarie: Personally, I worry a lot and I would probably wait until after the honeymoon to do the official name change. That seems like the easiest solution. You’ll have your whole life to have your new last name – I wouldn’t mess with it right before an international honeymoon. Just book in your maiden name and as soon as you return, do all the paperwork to change it.
Post # 6
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Busy bee
- Wedding: September 2015 - Historic Chapel
lindzmarie: You could either book using your married name now so it matches your passport when you board, as I think is plenty of time to obtain new passport with the name change, or you could just not change your passport name until after the trip. When I when to get my marriage license I asked about name change and passport and the lady told me is no big deal to not change the name on your passport as is not required by law that you change your name after marriage, she said I could just book with my maiden name to match my passport until I decide to get a new one with the name change.
Post # 7
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Honey bee
I just waited to change my name after we came back from the honeymoon. No problems leaving and re entering the country.
Post # 8
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Busy bee
My mom’s passport took about 6 months to recieve, FI’s took 2 months. I would book with your maiden name and change your passport after. What if your passport doesn’t come in time? That would be awful.
Post # 9
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Honey Beekeeper
If you have a passport that does not expire soon, just book it in your maiden name and travel with your passport as it is if you are worried about updating it in time. They aren’t going to go look up your social security card to make sure *that* name mathes, or see if you have a marriage certificate with a different name. As long as your passport is valid, its fine. They just need to see your ID match the name on the ticket. For about 2 years I travelled internationally with my married name, and domestically with my maiden name cause I was too lazy to update my driver licence.
Post # 10
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Bumble bee
I personally wouldn’t want to chance anything going wrong with the name change or passport change process, so would wait to change my name until after the trip. If you’re too eager to wait, book the flight now using your future married name. It’s absolutely fine to do that just so long as you’re sure your name will be legally changed by then and your new passport will be in your hands. Otherwise the airlines (not just Iceland Air) absolutely will not allow you to fly using that ticket. You’ll have to wind up buying another at the last minute or, heaven forbid, miss out if the flight’s sold out. :\
Post # 11
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Newbee
I had a similar dilemma!
I am going to Mexico in a few weeks and my passport name is not my current name. I talked to a lot of people who traveled and also spoke to a lot of people in trip advisor and to the people i booked my excursions with and got my answer as long as you book your tickets in your old name (the name on your passport ) there will not be an issue at all. Airlines only ask for one form of I.D and your passport is sufficient for that. Anyone in Iceland who needs your I.D will ask for your passport so make sure anything that you need to book ( excursions, flights, hotels, ect ) are in your passport name.
Hope that helps! Enjoy your trip!!
Post # 12
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Helper bee
You could either wait and do your passport after (you can still change everything else and just not your passport and book the tickets in your maiden name) or expedite your passport after you get everything else done. 🙂
Post # 13
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Blushing bee
- Wedding: April 2016 - NYC
Thanks for all the advice everyone!! I think what I am going to do is book the flight(s) with my married name. It’s going to boil down to whether or not I decide to go to this conference in May in Canada, which I am leaning no for reasons other than this. In which case I won’t have to worry about getting my new passport in time. It’s good to know though that I can fly with my maiden name on an old passport though so I can go to Canada using my maiden name and my old passport and then get my new passport after.
Post # 14
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Busy bee
Yeah, all that matters is that the name on the ticket match the name on the ID. They don’t care what your actual legal name at that instant is. So you can either book the ticket under what your name WILL be, and make damn sure you get the passport updated in time, OR you can book your name as it is now, and wait to update your passport til after.
If you change your name on your marriage license, then technically your name changes at the instant you get married, but you have a year to change all of your IDs and paperwork over. During the interim all that matters is that the ID you’re using match whatever it is you’re trying to do.
Post # 15
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Blushing bee
- Wedding: April 2016 - NYC
Sephiroth: Thanks this makes perfect sense!