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Oh yes we seriously did. We seriously just decided the whole name change debacle with rock, paper, scissors. The stakes? If Mr. D won we’d either both take my last name as a second middle and his as our communal last; I’d also retain middle name rights or my surname as a first name for our future kids. If I won? We’d both double barrel…

Hello bees! I know, it’s been far too long. I have to admit that I’ve been hibernating in our Chicago apartment, thoroughly enjoying married life. I spent the weekend devouring the Martha Stewart holiday issue, cooking from my new Indian cookbook, and snuggling with Mr. Jasmine. For all of you in the midst of wedding planning stress, take heart: a relaxing, blissful married life awaits…

We made it back from the Philippines, and we’re in Detroit right now! We have a layover for a couple of hours before we catch a flight back to NYC, so I’m just checking in on Weddingbee.  It was a grueling trip with four flights: El Nido to Manila to Nagoya to Detroit to Manhattan, but we’re finally here!  

While we’re waiting for our connecting flight, I…

Mrs. Hydrangea posted recently about her decision to change her name in a rather unusual way, and it got me thinking about my name decision (ahem, more like a non-decision). Having been married before, I’ve done the name change thing (and then reversed it). The whole thing was awful. When I first adopted my new married name, I felt lost, like all of my history…

Yesterday I took on the task of changing my name. I collected all of the proper paperwork and headed out to do the following, in this order:1) Get two certified copies of my marriage certificate.

2) Change Driver’s License.

3) Change Social Security.

I’m going to share my experiences with you all, but please know that this was only my personal experience in the State of Texas. While…

In my previous blog about the DMV, I told you all about being denied the ability to change my name to First Maiden Newlast. Well, my darling readers, I made myself an 8:45am appointment at the Culver City DMV, planning on being denied for a third time.

Despite being allowed to sleep in this morning until 8am (unlike my usual wakeup time at 6:15am), I woke…

Oh DMV, how I despise you. You make me wait for an hour to be seen on a beautiful Friday afternoon, only to be rejected for a new ID. My Social Security card is not enough to convince you that I don’t want to keep my middle name, no, I just want my First Maiden NewLast. It seems simple, right? After all, the SS office…

Now that the thank you cards are sent, the gifts opened, used and put away, and our new bed has arrived, all the fun wedding things are done, leaving me with all the menial tasks of name-changing.

I have just taken a large step: I made Mr. Kiwi my IRA beneficiary. When and if I pass away, all my money in my IRA will be given to…

So we are home… well our home until the first week of February when we fly out to start our 6 month trip.

There is exactly one month between our wedding day and the day that we fly out. This posed an interesting dilemma for my name. I just couldn’t see spending six months and not taking Mr. Robin’s name. It is really important to me…

Now, I’ve blogged before about how I’m not changing my name - and this decision is one that Mr. Dahlia 100% completely supports.(What I have not blogged about extensively is that I actually do follow celebrity gossip).

I know that others have different opinions about name changing, but this, for me, is extreme. According to E! Online’s Marc Malkin, Eddie Murphy and Tracey Edmonds have called it quits over…