Monica Brant Putnim, Hillary Rohdam Clinton, Kelly Ryan Titus
Freakin lame. Interested to think what Getbiggers think about this.
If my wife wanted to keep her last name, I probably would not have married her.
There are some deep problems there. Like lack of confidence you're marriage will work?
Embarassment of you're husbands last name?
If they're doing it because they don't want to take your last name, I'd say there's a problem.
However, there are legitimate legal reasons and name recognition resons.
For example, nobody knows Monica Brant ans Monica Peckham or Angelina Jolie as Angelina Pitt. So they keep their name for their fan base, etc.
They hyphenate it so they can legally use both names (Banking, Financial reasons, etc.). for example, they can go by Angelina Jolie for the movies and Angelina Pitt for adoption papers.