When I first announced my boyfriend and I were engaged, I was met with follow up questions. “When is the wedding?” “How did he do it?” And, inevitably, “Will you be taking his last name?”
My reply to the latter was often met with a furled brow. I heard, “I am surprised you of all people would take someone’s last name. That’s great though!” Similar responses repeatedly caught me off guard.
During the process of changing my last name, I learned that it would be both logistically challenging and professionally costly.
What many consider a benign — and even mundane — marriage custom is actually an underappreciated sacrifice many women make when they marry.
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