I couldn't sleep last night. At all. I think I slept for like an hour. So in the middle of the night I went online to check out the requirements for getting a marriage license in NYC. It was, as I suspected, super easy.
I am having a debate with myself over whether to change my name. If I were younger I would change it. But I am not younger anymore and I have a professional reputation associated with my name. Besides, I am rather attached to it at this point. We are getting married on my 35th birthday. In Illinois you can change your name whenever you feel like it. You just need a copy of the marriage license. In NYC, however, you have to change it on the marriage license itself. This is not ideal. I would like a little more time to make that decision. If you change your mind and you want to change it later, you need a new marriage license and you have to get married again. I am going to ask him if he has any thought about it, but I already know that he will just want me to do whatever I want. I can't decide. If I change it on the marriage license, all of my documentation is going to be immediately wrong. Driver's license, passport, social security card, all my credit cards, bills, bank accounts, investment accounts. Ugh. I think that weighs in favor of not changing it, just because I don't want to deal with the hassle.
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If you change your mind and you want to change it later, you need a new marriage license and you have to get married again.
I'm sure you've researched this, but that just sounds odd.
People change their names all the times for all kinds of reasons, including, but not limited to, getting married.
I would think that there must be some other mechanism for legally changing your name if you decide to at some point.
But, of course, I could be wrong.
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