The Misadventures of Quinxy von Besiex truths, lies, and everything in between

Hyphenated Last Names

If you're about to be married and one or both of you lovely people  engaged in coupledom is considering merging your last names into one hyphenated monstrosity, I beg you, don't!  It's a stupid idea.

Whatever beauty your last name may have had is utterly lost in the union of the two, and this brilliant system you've come up with is woefully short sighted, as it doesn't scale.  Are your children going to inherit your hyphenated last name?  What if they end up meeting some lovely person who is no more a fan of giving up their last name than you or your spouse was?  Then they'll add on yet more hyphenated last names?

Be decisive, be bold.  Keep your original last names, pick the better of the last names, or make up a brand new and interesting last name you both will like (that will not harm your children), but whatever you do, don't hyphenate.

^Quinxy