I kept my last name! Woohoo, another YWN no-no.
To those quoting Rav Ovadia – do you/your wives wear sheitels?
My kids have my husbands last name.
If anyone is interested in my reasoning, there were a few:
1) My father has no sons, so I wanted to keep up the name a little longer
2) It requires a ton of paperwork change and I hate paperwork
3) We got married while in college. We were in the same classes, same friends, same professors….I needed my own name. Now its on my degree, it doesn’t make sense to change
4)I am rather attached to my name – I don’t like my first name, but I do like my last name
5)And most importantly, I really don’t like my husband’s last name. No one can pronounce it and everyone thinks he’s chinese. I need at least one name I like.