Did your mother keep or change her name when she got married?

[Simfan34]

Change Kept, like a normal American Ethiopian.

Although the fact that Quebec prohibits women from taking their husband's names seems absolutely insane.

[Simfan34]

I imagine hyphenation, for both spouses, as a sort of custom would very quickly make us all sound like a bunch of bizarrely named English aristocrats. If Peter Flynn marries Beatrice Mendez and has a kid named Anthony, who in turn marries Alice Glazowski-Chanut, their kid would be named Colin Mendez-Flynn-Glazowski-Chanut, who would then marry Beth Harper-Zhang-Rothman-Wald, and their kid would be named...

[Simfan34]

Maybe it's just my environment, but I feel like more women are keeping their names than changing them, at least the ones I know.