When NOT to hyphenate your name
I call myself Miss Purple here partly because stories of identity theft and stalkers really freak me out (I think this fear originated from childhood when my over-protective parents used these stories in their rationalization of why I shouldn’t be allowed to go to sleepovers/house parties/the mall/school trips without their personal supervision) and partly because my last name is atrocious.
Don’t get me wrong. I am extremely proud of my Polish cultural background and intend to make it an important part of my own kids’ histories. But after a lifetime of correcting misspellings and mispronunciations of my 10-letter-ends-with-ski surname, I was looking forward to changing my name when I got married.
Given the length of my last name, hyphenating was never really an option. And now that I’m marrying my 11-letter-ends-with-stein dream man, the thought of hyphenating is downright hilarious.
Blahblahski-Blahblahstein?
HA. I’d like to see a hockey jersey with that across the back.
Here are some other instances* in which hyphenating your name might not be such a good idea.
Did you / are you going to hyphenate your name?
* Note: I actually don’t think all these couples hyphenated their names - it’s just a format that newspapers use for wedding announcements. But can you imagine if they DID?
Filed under: wedding | Tagged: hypenating, names, surnames, wedding announcements
Now that I have picked myself up off the floor from laughing too hard at some of those, i feel the only appropriate comment is “hardy-harr!”
Our names sound terrible together. (I’m anon too so I can’t share, but trust me, it’s not happening!) I actually dislike hyphenated names anyway, although I might use both without a hyphen or even a space if it worked… but ours don’t.
So, I end up taking his name. It’s cool, I fancy a new identity anyway
These never fail to make me laugh, no matter how many times I see them.
Aloha Miss Purple! I just responded to your post on the bee. :o)
You know the journalists that put those wedding/engagement announcements purposely print the sames in the order that sounds most ridiculous!! Can you blame them?! LoL. Too funny!
@nejreta - Yay! Hello fellow DW-er! Ya you’re probably right… if I was doing that job I’d totally try to make funny combinations too. It’s like the artists or computer programmers who put a secret lil’ sumthin’-sumthin’ in their work that no one else knows about. Hee hee.
This was too funny, Miss Purple. It’s one of the reasons I’m going to have a hard time deciding what to do about my name - good thing I’ve got lots of time!