Quebec woman fights to change her last name

[aephi alum]

It's very easy in Massachusetts to specify any last name you like when you get married. There's a spot on the form, for both the bride and the groom, to specify the last name to be used after marriage. You can write in whatever you want - your own current last names, his name for both bride and groom, her name for both bride and groom, or something else entirely.

That, IMO, is the way to do it. People should not be forced to change their names when they get married, nor should they be forced to keep their existing names, nor should they have to do a separate name-change process if they want to do something "unusual" like a man taking his wife's last name.