Thoughts From Guys On Our IM: Taking Her Last Name

Posted by: Amelia McDonell-Parry Filed in: guys
8:30AM, Thursday May 8th 2008

By now you’ve probably heard about Michael Buday, the guy who wanted to take the last name of his wife, Diana Bijon, when they married in California. It took two years, a sexual discrimination suit, and a change in California law before he was able to do so. While women have an easy time taking their husband’s last name, there is no place on the marriage license application, and driver’s license, for the groom to choose the bride’s surname. Clearly, this is ridiculous and there’s not much more to say about that, except good for Mr. and Mrs. Bijon for taking their fight all the way. But it got me thinking about the notion of changing your last name in marriage anyway—is this something guys would actually consider? I posed the question to the guys on my IM and, needless to say, they probably won’t be taking your last name anytime soon. Check their responses, after the jump.

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comments

Catherine
wrote on May 8 2008 @ 08:36 am: [report]

There are no words.

Elle
wrote on May 8 2008 @ 09:37 am: [report]

I took my husband’s last name for a number of reasons, one of which was that I have a lot of bad blood between my father and I and I didn’t want to keep his name. I do have to say that if he had a crazy last name like “Anus” then I probably wouldn’t take it. Maybe we could decide together on a new last name at that point, lol!

One of my friend’s is getting married and her man’s last name is Ho. I am SO EXCITED to give a speech at her wedding, you don’t even know! She’s going to be a Ho in a few months!