Mr. and Mrs. Scissorhands
A funny thing happened. We got a check in the mail, a wedding gift from a relative (we’ll call him Edward Scissorhands, which is not his real name). The envelope was addressed to Dennis and Aprille Scissorhands (that is, the guy’s last name instead of either of ours), and the check was written out to Dennis and Aprille Scissorhands.
It was a generous gift, and we’re very grateful. It’s just funny that the relative assumed not only that I changed my name (I didn’t), but that I changed it to his name and not Denny’s. Also, he thinks Denny changed his last name.
If Denny’s last name were Scissorhands, I might have actually changed it. Because that’s a pretty freaking cool name.
thats bizarre.
i wonder if you will even be able to cash the check!?
Welcome to the not changing your name when you get married club. Be prepared for lots of dumb questions from people like “what are you going to name your kids?” My favorite question was, “Why did you get married if you aren’t going to change your name.” When people ask me annoying questions about it I remind them that I didn’t have to change my social security card, license, notify my insurance, etc.
That’s really funny–“Why did you get married if you aren’t going to change your name?” As if it’s every woman’s dream to change her name one day, and if you have to stoop so low as to marry a man to do it, so be it. Hah!
I’ll have to think of some comebacks. It’s funny, nobody’s given me any crap or made any dumb remarks like that so far, but it’s amazing how many people just assume I changed my name. When we were endorsing wedding gift checks, I had to add the parenthetical note “Kept maiden name” after I endorsed about 90% of them, because they were made out to Dennis and Aprille Crall. I know people were just trying to be celebratory and nice, but it’s funny how in this day and age so many people still jump to conclusions.
Remember that Jack and I got married in Utah where it is practically illegal to keep your maiden name. Ha! But, I do remember my car insurance company changing my name to Pinette when I put Jack on the account. They said, “We just assumed that you changed your name.”
The funny thing is that now Jack gets just as much mail addressed as Jack Winn as I do Holly Pinette. It is all about equality.
oh, you both missed out on the opportunity to BOTH change your names, you could have been “Mr and Mrs Scissorhands”
the only girl i know who really wanted to change her last name was Lacey Slutts. it’s pretty unfortunate
Aargh, Slutts is terrible. No one should be cursed with a third-person singular verb for a last name.
Holly and I once had a friend named Jana Jackson, who was also quite happy to participate in a ritual transfer of ownership from her father to her husband, if only to stop the flood of stupid jokes whenever she introduced herself.
i think it was especially mindless of her parents to team “lacey” up as either a first name or description of said “slutts”
I didn’t know that you were keeping/kept your maiden name. In fact, I had forgotten what’s Denny’s last name was, but when I re-read it I thought of a few things that I thought were weird in similarity. I had a friend get married at the beginning of July this year. She too had her reception at the Museum of Fine Arts (in Utah though, not Iowa). Although she didn’t keep her maiden name totally, she went for the non-hyphenated hyphenated last name. Her husband’s last name is pretty close to Denny’s – Krull.