Being in wedding mode for all of last weekend meant that a lot of the conversation revolved around, well, weddings. And things related to weddings. We talked about how I hope to never catch a bouquet because, among other reasons, I don't want some random dude who was lucky enough to catch the garter sticking his hand up my dress. We talked about flowers and dresses and shoes and this, that and the other thing.
And then we talked about the changing of the last name.
I am personally in the "I don't want to change my name" camp, mostly because I like my name the way it is and seeing as a name is a pretty big part of an identity, I don't want to have to just readjust to something new (unless my new last name were something really awesome, but I can't think of any examples that would satisfy that).
The thing is, I don't want to give my unborn children (who will hopefully stay unborn for A LONG TIME) a hyphenated name, nor do I want to give them my husband's name and then have to deal with all the problems that come along with a mother having a completely different last name from her children (there are a lot of these problems, so I hear).
This may seem like somewhat of a conundrum, but I realized recently that there is a perfect solution to my problem. And I have made it my new goal in life.
Friends, I am going to marry someone who has the same last name as I do.
IT IS A PERFECT ASS PLAN.
No name change, no paperwork, no hyphenating and no different last name from the mini-Arielles.
Okay, I am anticipating your questions. Here we go.
Q: Do you think this is realistic?
A: I'm not saying it's definitely going to happen, but my last name is hardly obscure.
Q: Aren't you afraid that you're going to end up marrying some long lost cousin or something?
A: No. My grandparents had their last name changed to my current last name when they came to the U.S. Thus we are well aware of who is in our family and who is not.
Q: What if you date someone with the same last name and you decide to be in a Facebook relationship and people who don't really know your situation either think that you're a) already married or b) dating a brother or cousin?
A: Fictitious person, you are weird for even thinking of these things.
Q: Arielle, you are ridiculous.
A: I prefer to call it awesome.
There you have it. My perfect plan. For those of you who know my last name (which I'm pretty sure is...most of you), if you find any single guys who fit this description, please pass them along.
4 comments:
There really aren't a lot of problems having parents with different last names (aka ME). My mom would just sign stuff Sharon "Maiden Name, Married Name" on school stuff. There was never any issue.
And honestly, if Dave didn't have the last name he did, I may not have changed. No other guy I dated had a last name that sounded good with my first name. So win for Dave!
But I think your plan is a good one. I think you should start doing searches on FB to find single (your last name) men in the area.
LOVE IT. My mother's maiden name was Kim so there was no issue for her (unless they had decided to hyphenate anyway and call me Anny Kim-Kim, which would've been pretty awful). But your name is so common too!
I think you have FAR more chance of finding someone with your last name than I have of finding someone to marry with MY last name anyway!
That being said, I don't know anyone in real life with your last name. (But I also don't know any Jewish people in real life so perhaps that's why?)
My personal thought, I'd leave it up to whomever I may marry. If they want to take my last name, great. If not, life goes on.
Arielle Mega? That DOES have a ring to it. Just sayin.
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