Declaring My "New" Self (a little sooner than expected)

Posted Tuesday, July 08, 2008 12:58 PM

I hadn't thought much about changing my name as the wedding is still 9+ months away.  Will I be taking his name?  Should I keep my maiden name professionally?  Will I hyphenate?  There is plenty of time to decide - or so I thought.  However, through an unexpected development, I had to choose my moniker far sooner than I had expected:

Business Cards. Without warning, my boss told me to order 500 of them for myself. (I get business cards??) 

As I wrote it, it stared back at me.  My new name.  Not just a verbal musing or secret scribbling of who I am going to be but a formal declaration of my new identity.

- Bride

(I can't wait to get my new cards in!)