fullofmoxie ([info]fullofmoxie) wrote,
@ 2005-02-28 23:54:00
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sklaown or brown?
so max and i are getting the legal aspect of the marriage over with tomorrow. we really dont want gw bush to have anything to do with our wedding, so we wanted to get the legal/financial part of it done way before the ceremony.
however, there is still some debate over our last name. i am asking that those who actually read this (hi julianna, hi katie) to weigh in. here are the contenders:

1. max and alyson sklown.
2. max and alyson sklar
3. max and alyson brown
4. max and alyson broar
5. max and alyson rosenbaum

i am very curious to know what people think. frankly, i am horrified by sklown. there are two many clown and scar references. think about the children!


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name change
[info]menstruatingirl
2005-03-01 06:57 am UTC (link)
i like that you and max are being creative with your future - forging a new, united identity out of two separate ones. my first impulse is to choose "broar" or "rosenbaum." where did 'brown' come from?

abby and i just got a pre-wedding invitation yesterday from julia and justin. let's just say we're beside ourselves with joy for the both of you!

as far as names, abby and i haven't even signed our wills and power of attorney forms (we have them; we're just lazy). so choose what makes the two of you happy - i know i'll always be some fashion of kosinski forever!

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Re: name change
[info]fullofmoxie
2005-03-01 08:50 am UTC (link)
actually, brown is max's last name. i am sure in the end we will keep our names, but we are definitely interested in a creation of sorts...although, we both love rosenbaum....totally out of our imaginations. max being 1/8 jewish and all....:)

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[info]kitkatbreeze
2005-03-01 08:15 am UTC (link)
We (my family and I) think that you should enlarge your list by taking your mothers' maiden names and combining them as well. ... And we do not like Sklown. It scared me. Where did Rosenbaum come from?

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[info]fullofmoxie
2005-03-01 08:53 am UTC (link)
good idea, although max's last name is his mothers maiden name. his parents chose to keep their last names and each child recieved a different last name -- max brown, amanda cross. i kinda like it myself. but if we were to add kennard into the equation things could get messy.

alyson and max kennown
alyson and max sklownard
alyson and max kennard
alyson and max cross
alyson and max skross
alyson and max ......

there is probably some mathematical equation.

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[info]jackastral
2005-03-01 10:39 am UTC (link)
I've been partial to each person taking the other person's last name. Say, if I was to marry, oh, um, Some-really-attractive-female-star-for-nerd-fantasy-fulfillment-purposes (or SRAFSFNFFP), my full name would be Jack Langdon (SRAFSFNFFP's last name) and her's would be (full name of SRAFSFNFFP) Langdon. Okay, maybe that was bad as a means of clarification. Basically: Alyson Sklar Brown and Max Brown Sklar. And for godssakes no hyphens!

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[info]calico_k
2005-03-01 11:51 am UTC (link)
hmmm... tough call. I think it's so cool that you guys are trying to be creative and merge names, although I think you have such a nice last name yourself, I hate to see you lose it:). I'm personally a fan of each person taking the others last name, as well as keeping their own, although that does make for a long signature:). good luck with all your wedding decisions, I know how hard it all is (my sister got married last year), but don't worry, you will get through it all... and, btw, my sister had a destination wedding too, she had the same problem, family and friends all over, and true, not everyone could come, but it was still fabulous, and I'm sure your's will be too, whatever you decide.

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i'm not anonymous
(Anonymous)
2005-03-01 02:31 pm UTC (link)
i'm robert. visit me at http://reluctantreceptionist.blogspot.com!

ok now for the comment. sklown is awful. what's wrong with brown-sklar? i love hyphens.

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I can't believe you guys missed the obvious one:
[info]handsome_hue
2005-03-01 02:44 pm UTC (link)
max & alyson hyphen

am i right or what? is it too late?

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[info]wilde_bee
2005-03-01 04:58 pm UTC (link)
I am definitely with the crowd who thinks that Sklown is scary. It's hard for me to know how to feel anymore about name changes actually. When we got hitched, I was ready to change my name - I had been ready all my life (not because I hated my maiden name, just that I expected not to keep it when I got married cause that's what most girls do). A little before we did it we had been thinking about possible name changes and made-up name changes and then we went traditional because (a) we wanted the same last name, and (b) it would have freaked out the fams for us to have ended up with a completely different last name (they already consider us marginally wanting to be in the family, and that would have been proof of it I think). BUT, if we had had more time to think about it, I think we might have tried to come up with a made-up or composite name. And now I don't think it matters so much to have the same last name as your partner. In fact if we were to do it again I would probably keep my maiden name. I can't imagine trading last names (Chu becoming a Langdon?, not likely, no offense Langdons since I am one :)

On a weird side note, Chu and I flirted with the idea of both taking our middle names as our last names - making a legal change of it. But we didn't.

In other words, it's personal taste more than anything these days I think.

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