Name Change After Marriage for Newlyweds

Looking for name change advice or some tips for newlywed life? The MissNowMrs experts have created state-specific name change articles and checklists for you. We’ve chronicled our recommendations for how to travel while changing your name AND how to handle voting during the transition.

We’ve also compiled our best guidance for how to handle difficult sister in laws, holidays as newlyweds, the ever-annoying baby questions, and much more. Why? Because, while we are name change experts, we’re also newlywed wives, moms, and sisters.

We hope our name change advice articles help smooth your transition to your new name, and a whole new phase of life. Congratulations and best wishes from the entire MissNowMrs team!

Your Married Name: Would You Keep It If Your Marriage Ended?

Would you keep your married name if your married ended? As a name change expert, I do a great deal of reading on the topic of (surprise) married name change. Once in a while the concept of married names and divorce comes up. As this is a newlywed blog, we don’t mention the “D word” very often. However, married name change and its ramifications (including after a marriage sadly ends) is something everyone newly engaged or newly married woman should consider.

Married Name Change

Changing your name after marriage is a very personal choice. If you do opt to become a Mrs., your name changes legally and stays changed. Unless, you pass away or opt to legally change it again based on another marriage, divorce or a whim. This is not a decision to be made lightly as it involves mountains of paperwork to accomplish and mountains more to change if you change your mind. Have you made up your mind and decided in favor of changing your name? Save 13 hour of stress and hassle with the MissNowMrs is an app and online name change service.

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The name change article I read was answering someone’s question as to why a divorced woman would choose to keep her married name post divorce. While a new married name is new when you’re changing your business cards and monograms, it becomes part of your identity as you build your career, family and life. At some point your new name is simply your name. Many women opt to keep married names post divorce to have the same name as their children or continue to keep the name recognition that they have built in their area of work or expertise. Some women keep their married names because that is what they are comfortable with or even to spite their ex husbands.

Divorce Name Change

Name change post divorce is a very similar process to married name change. Instead of using a marriage certificate to file for your new name, you will need a legal name change order in your divorce decree. That is the legal document that allows your legal name change after your divorce is finalized. Should you be ready to get your maiden name back, services like GetYourNameBack streamline the process for a nominal fee.

Once again, name change proves to be a highly personal choice. There are many factors regardless of whether you are taking/adding your spouse’s last name or taking your maiden name back. Choose wisely ladies!

MissNowMrs Name Change Gift Cards Now at Target!

MissNowMrs name change gift cards are now at Target! Tis the season for bridal showers and weddings! Do you feel like you’re attending one or the other every weekend from now through early Fall? While watching friends and family fall in love and get married is amazing, it can leave a girl feeling overwhelmed on the gifting front. While something from their registry is always a good idea, some people like to give gifts that brides-to-be don’t even realize they need (including yours truly).

If you’re looking for a unique and useful gift for bridal showers and weddings this year, stockpile MissNowMrs gift cards! For $29.95 you will save each bride in your life 13 hours of hassle on her transition from Miss to Mrs. The easy online name change service auto-completes all of the necessary legal paperwork (think Social Security cards, passport, driver’s licenses and updating all her creditors) and makes sure she skips standing in long offices lines with the inside scoop on how to file by mail!

MissNowMrs gift cards are available online, at Rite Aids across the US. And, as of Sunday in 100 Target stores! Could that be any more convenient? So be the friend that gives the gift of more time spent enjoying newlywed life instead of a cookbook.

Burger King Married Name Change Sparks Chain to Pick Up Wedding Tab

Miss King was proposed to by Mr. Burger and she said yes (we’re not making this up)! The newly engaged couple shared their big news with a photo next to their town’s Burger King restaurant. Thanks to the beauty of social media, Burger King learned of their engagement and pending married last names and offered to pay for their wedding and supply gifts! We sincerely hope there are Burger King crowns involved in the wedding photos.

Taking two last names is a name change trend that is gaining popularity in the U.S.. Two last names sans hypen allows one to use either name or both names in work and social settings. What makes Miss King and Mr. Burger unique, is the use of the bride’s maiden name (Burger) ahead of the groom’s surname (King). It has been reported that the couple has been known as Burger King since 5th grade, making the name change choice a personal one (but still amusing to the known world).

Miss Burger should use MissNowMrs.com to make her married name change a breeze, and we’re happy to send her a complimentary gift card!

Is Keeping Your Maiden Name a Huge Mistake?

Considering keeping your maiden name? In the controversial world of married name change there is much debate around whether a woman should change her name after marriage. In the whirlwind of debate there are the multiple choices of names that a married woman can opt to take.

Name change is a personal decision for every bride, and she should weigh all the factors that are important to her and her name now and in the future to avoid making a mistake that can last for decades.

Many women punt on the married name change decision and wait a few years or until they’re pregnant to make a choice. While that may take the pressure off as a newlywed, it intensifies the pressure into a 9 month block later in life. Consider how important it is to you to have the same name as your child or children.

Does it matter that you may need to explain your marital status and mis-matched names at various schools and social functions? Do you think your kids will feel less connected as a family if they have your spouse’s last name and you use your maiden name? Again, the choice is very much up to you and how you feel.

I recently read an article about a mother lamenting keeping her maiden name. It’s rare to have a window into another person’s feelings about their name and name-change choices, so I was intrigued. If you want to know why one mom feels that keeping her maiden name was a huge mistake, read Jill Simonian’s story. The main takeaway from her story is that “My name doesn’t match the people that are most important to me, which makes me sad, guilty, confused and scared.” Those are big emotions, so take a moment and make sure that you won’t feel similarly if you keep your maiden name.

If you do decide that changing your name after marriage is the right choice for you and your (future) family don’t waste 13 hours standing in long office lines. Use the MissNowMrs easy online name change service or app to go from Miss to Mrs. in a matter of minutes!

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MissNowMrs is In Martha Stewart Weddings Magazine!

We’re delighted to announce that MissNowMrs is in Martha Stewart Weddings! As I founded MissNowMrs back in 2007, I read The Martha Rules. Her book on business taught me many things and helped frame how MissNowMrs was created. One of my personal goals from day 1 was to be published in Martha Stewart Weddings.

A company doesn’t just magically get mentioned by Martha, and that’s part of the charm and prestige. I wanted to build an online name change service that helped all newlyweds navigate the married name change process in each individual state. It needed to be fast, effective and beautiful. I would like to think Martha would call MissNowMrs a “good thing.”

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Fast forward 8 years, endless press kits and editor pitches later. MissNowMrs is in the Spring issue of Martha Stewart Weddings! In a side column, I provide tips for brides considering changing their names after marriage. My married name change tips are online if you are a newlywed, and interested. It may have taken more time than I thought to achieve my “Martha goal”, but the entrepreneurial journey has been amazing.

Next goal: Chatting name change with Martha on Martha Stewart radio!!