I just wanted to show off my new user icon...

[ninjasezzy]

Also I think it's quite fitting for the post I'm about to make.

Regarding me changing my name.  Ugh.
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As far as I know there is no law that you MUST change your name once you get married.  Vanessa says you HAVE to within a few weeks.  Or else what?  It's not like I don't want to take his name, anyone who knows me knows I just haven't yet because I

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[arletta]

What? You don't have to change your name at all. The name changing just harkens back to women becoming 'property' of the husband once they're married, that's all (I believe so anyway, I'm no history scholar).
I know a few women who did not change their name once they got married and have no intention to do so. And I personally know a few guys who wouldn't mind taking their girlfriend's last name once they get married!

Personally, I'm a Hickman and will NEVER change my name.

[snoopingmother]

That's a great photo -- and I absolutely love your name. I vote you change it to Melanie Peed-Sour!

[doclegs]

What an awesome picture!!! Don't change your name if you don't want.... I've got a good friend who didn't legally change her name so at work she's "Smith" but at her kid's school and with the school moms she goes by her husband's name just not to confuse things.

Personally, I love Peed-Sour! :) Or you could do Sour-Peed and then there would be lots of jokes to tell, heheheh.