Yeah so I still haven't changed my name

[Raychel]

Do I go to the social security office or the country clerk's office and license branch or what? It has been so long since I looked up what I need to do it that now I forget it all and can't find the info.

[*TanyaJeanne*]

Yeah go to the Social Security office. Bring your copy of your marriage license. Then you can do your bank stuff, credit cards, and anything you have in your old name...just make sure you bring your marriage license with you everywhere.

[Raychel]

Dumb question maybe but...

Do you have to wait to get your new SSC before changing the other stuff?

[*TanyaJeanne*]

I changed my SSC first...but I am not sure you have to. I just wanted proof too that I changed that as well.

[carolinalady67]

You should go to SS first, but they will give you a letter saying you have changed your name and that was all I needed at the bank and would probably be enough anywhere else too. It took less then two weeks to get the new SS card though too so it isn't like a long wait.

Make sure the copy of your marriage license is a Certified copy and not just a copy you run off. Take that, your current SS card and ID with you to the SS office.

[soulmates]

How do you get a certified copy? Do they automatically send you one?

[carolinalady67]

How do you get a certified copy? Do they automatically send you one?

I can't speak for every state, but here they didn't. When we got our marriage lisence they gave us a form we needed to fill out to order a certified copy and it was $5 or $10 for each copy. I filled that form out and wrote a check then gave it to our officiant who mailed it in with our marriage lisence after the wedding.

You can ask how to get one when you pick up your marriage lisence.

[::Amanda::]

We did the same thing as Lisa, but we don't have ours back yet and we were planning on changing my name on Friday. How long did it take to get your copies Lisa?

[carolinalady67]

I would say it took about five to six weeks. But then I would have expected our officiant to send it in right away and it doesn't look like he did. It is stamped that it was returned to the register of deeds on June 7. That is a month after our wedding!

I just looked, I went up to the SS office on June 13 which I think was the day after I got the certificate. So I got it a week after it was sent in.

[*Ashley*]

I just got mine yesterday and I'm going Monday morning to do it. In Texas, you have to go to the DPS and change it there first, then go to social security, so I'd double check just to be sure :) It's nice -- they're right next to each other here (in one spot) and DPS opens at 8, SS at 9, so I'm getting there before 8, changing my name there, then hopping over to SS and praying I can get it all done and to work by 10 a.m.

[QueenElizabeth22]

so this is sort of off topic...for those of you who took a few weeks? did you gals start going my your husband's name even though it wasn't officially changed yet?

[Christa]

Beth, I'm still going by my maiden name until I get mine legally changed... not for any reason other than I want to

[carolinalady67]

Ashley, what is DPS?

Beth, in letters and such I used new name. But for everything else I still used maiden name. Because if I went somewhere asking for an ID I didn't have anything to actually show my name had changed. Now that some things are changed and others aren't I carry my certified copy of my marriage license with me just in case I need it.

[*Ashley*]

DPS -- Department of Public Safety -- I think it's called the DMV most places?

I'm going by my new last name around friends, but at work it's tricky. I'm having a hard time introducing myself as my new last name just because I keep forgetting, and because I'm getting a little nostalgic about my maiden name, LOL, which I never thought I would!

[carolinalady67]

In Texas, you have to go to the DPS and change it there first, then go to social security, so I'd double check just to be sure :) .

Thanks for what DPS is Ashley :) and you are right everyone should check with what their state requires. Here we had to do SS first then DMV. I still need to make it to the DMV. My last place to change other then a few memberships and I think one more credit card. Places like doctors offices I'll just change the next time I'm there. My health insurance card is already changed just a matter of changing it at the doctors office.

[QueenElizabeth22]

Gotcha...thanks gals! :)

[*Ashley*]

Sure Lisa :) It's Texas -- we think we better than everyone else so we name everyday things something else just to prove it ;) LOL

[Jessica!]

This thread was useful.. lol.

I just got married on Saturday. I have a certificate from the state of Nevada.. but I wasn't sure if it was the actual certified one I have to use. I remember getting our license and they said it was an extra $7 for the certified copy. We didn't get it. Our bad. Now we have to pay $10 for it and wait for it to come in the mail.

Boo! I just want to get the name change over with before I get too lazy.

[*TanyaJeanne*]

DPS -- Department of Public Safety -- I think it's called the DMV most places?

I'm going by my new last name around friends, but at work it's tricky. I'm having a hard time introducing myself as my new last name just because I keep forgetting, and because I'm getting a little nostalgic about my maiden name, LOL, which I never thought I would!

Ours is DPS too :)

[Winter_Bride]

If it helps, I still haven't changed my name everywhere. I JUST got my social insurance card changed while I was in getting one for my daughter! (the end of this month we'll have been married for 2 and a half years!!) My name is still not changed on the land title or deed or mortgage on our house.

[::Amanda::]

YAY I finally got my license and will be changing my name some time this week.

[QueenElizabeth22]

I just filled out all kinds of paperwork for my new job last week and they told me to just go ahead and use my married name so I wouldn't have to go back in a few short weeks and re-do it all! It was sorta cool to be signing the new last name everywhere! :)