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Bride's
surname options
When
visiting the Marriage Registry, the bride must have
decided whether or not she will keep her maiden surname.
For
example, Mary Abela is getting married to John
Borg. These are Mary's options... Mary Abela would
become either
Mary
Borg
or
Mary
Borg Abela
or
Mary
Abela Borg
or
Mary
Abela (keep maiden surname)
What
about the couple's children
Children always take their father's surname with the option
to take also the mother's, irrelevant of what their
mother had chosen.
Thus
the children's surname of this couple would be either;
Borg
or Borg Abela or Abela Borg but never Abela on its own,
the bride's
maiden surname.
For
some brides this decision might be understandably quite
difficult.
You
have been carrying your surname for at least 20 years
and all your friends know you like that!
Will you feel uncomfortable changing it? Will
you feel that your identity has been changed?
The
choice is yours!
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