New name - exciting or a bit of a pain?

Going from an Italian surname (my ex husband's) to a lovely English one. My maiden name is also foreign although surprisingly the first 3 letters of my maiden name and my current surname are the same. But I was sick of spelling it for people in both cases so now it's nice to become Mrs O.

I'm looking forward to it, although, even though my surname is changing, my initial isn't, so I will still be KLR which I'm a little peeved cause years ago I nearly bought a personalised numberplate for my car then thought it a bit daft if I got married and had to change my name!!

typical!

I'm divorced and I kept my married name, when you're face to face with someone you get 'Is it Miss or Mrs?', I reply 'no it's Ms'to a 'oh ok then', this doesn't bother me too much, what gets me is as soon as I get any post it's always to 'Mr', or a phone call ' can I speak to Mr M please?', 'No sorry there isn't a Mr M', 'Oh I'm ringing for a S M', 'Yeah well that's me but I'm a Ms!'

This obviously isn't going to change when I get married cos my problem is my parents thought it would be funny to give me a name that most people think is a boys name!

I don't really care what I'm called I'll still be me ?

I'm going from a nice normal Irish surname that's very safe and easy to a surname that sounds like a swear word (...think plural of bulls)!Hmmph!

I do keep threatening to not change it but OH just says "well, if you don't want the same surname as our son". I'm very old fashioned though and wouldn't dream of not changing it really.

He also keeps asking if I've practised my new signature but I haven't yet. I didn't realise until reading this thread that it was bad luck to do so and now I'm glad I haven't!!

To answer the op, i currently have an uncommon english surname, and will be changing to an iranian one which i will be spelling, and correcting pronunciation on for the rest of my life. but i wouldnt have it any other way!

My new surname, is most definetly not exciting, its going to be Smith.

I'm disappointed with the sheer boringness of it

I went from Miss S McMxxxxx to Mrs S McIxxxxx so not much change. I do love my married name though, and being Mr and Mrs McIxxxxx. The pain has been changing my name on everything ?

I have a male friend who took his step-father's name and then changed to his mother's maiden name when they divorced and he was 27.

We have the issue at the mo of OH's son. He said in passing something about being double-barrelled with his mum's partner's name. OH was not happy. Can they legally do that without his permission?

I feel funny about losing my surname. I also hate the word 'wife' - it sounds old and dowdy.

Still can't wait to be married though!!

No as long as his name is on his son's birth certificate as his father. They would need his permission to change his name by stat dec.

xxx

I didn't think so.

My OH would be quite upset if I didn't take his name. I'm quite looking forward to it though. He calls me Mrs E already...

btw we have the same surname miss_holloway.

My OH has called me FMN for a while now (Future Mrs N****), even before we were together

Awww. He also calls me W2B.