But a question for the ladies out there. How many of you decided to/will decide to hyphenate your name after you get married? That is keep your last name and take your husband’s last name as well? Or would you just stick with your last name?
Also so how does the hyphening work too? Your last name-his last name or vice versa?
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According to our religion , U do not take on ur husband's last name.........
anywayz i'm keeping my last name ......
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me too ...i wouldn't wat to change my last name..
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errm am a lil confused here .. where if you plz referance it for me .. k where it says in our religion k u do not take ur husbands last name .. i ve never come across this before .. and if it werent allowed then why did my aunty change hers 
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i had to change my last name bcuz i must my visa papers done to come here in europe from pakistan n there was condition.well 95% pakistani ladies change their lastname n take their husban'd name.i pesonaly dont like it.
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i changed my last name to his last name and his first name is my middle name...okeeeee :p
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I kept my maiden name until my first daughter was born. After that I changed it to hubby's last name so that all of us in the family could have the same last name!
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oh i just thought abt it rite now and i think i wud like it if i get to keep my family last name and take on my hubby's last name 2...but i wudnt mind the other way too as in taking up my husband's name...but it wud definately feel weird...
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but hyphenating isn't like dropping your name totally. it's taking on another name. so say you're last name was salman, and after you get married his last name is farhan, so now you're fariha salman-farhan.
wouldn't that be like middle ground? you're not completely changing your identity and changing something you'd had for like your whole life. after all you are told to keep your last name after marriage
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^ I alwayz took it for granted that it was in Islam for women to change their last name after marriage. Hmm....but i know now since its a trend if somebody wants to keep their last name it might create a weird situation with the inlaws or even the hubby if they are not well versed with Islam.
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I hyphenated my last name with his, and mine comes first, then his.
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I have never heard that it was a MUST to change your name after marriage, but neither that it was forbidden. I guess it's up to the couple themselves. For now my name is still my last name, but that's cz i'm lazy :p... also, what i dont' get is the desi way of giving the father's first name as the kids' and wife's last name. that never made sense to me, that's how they do it in my husband's family, so i don't know..if ill change my name officially. But Id id change it on facebook..so that's one step :@:
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Im keeping mine man 
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I will keep my maiden name, I don't have any plans of changing it.
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I didnt change it neither do I plan to change it ever!!!
One of my friends was very against changing last names after marriage implying that it’s very dominant of the man’ nasture to expect that and since she considered herself feminisit, she wanted to keep her maiden name… after marriage, she hyphenated her last name.. I just couldn’t stop laughing.. now she has the name of two men instead of just one meaning she is being dominated by two men now!! girls 
ps: i wish I could give my kids my last name. I like it better. 
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She will be known as Mrs. Orpheus as of July '08. :D
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wrong thread
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I have kept my last name, but sometimes I consider the hyphen.
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^ I alwayz took it for granted that it was in Islam for women to change their last name after marriage. Hmm....but i know now since its a trend if somebody wants to keep their last name it might create a weird situation with the inlaws or even the hubby if they are not well versed with Islam.
Actually, I'm fairly certain it's a Western trend. I think Muslim women kept their father's name.