Change Passport into married name before or after wedding?

mrsthompsontobe  I've booked my honeymoon in mx maiden name to make life easier. Just take a copy of your marriage certificate to make the most of any just married offers the hotel might give you. x

sam2710  @mrsthompsontobe I will! Thanks for the tip! I thought that might be the case but then i thought, legally, I'm not my maiden name anymore, I'm my married name, therefore can I travel under it?? I think ive totally thought about it too much and over complicated it - thank you!x

munchkin79  @sam2710 exactly what
@mrsthompsontobe said. Don't whatever you do is book the honeymoon in your married name if you don't think you'll have time to change your passport. You might end up buying a whole new ticket. X

mrsmorrisontobe  @sam2710 just to mix it up a little! I have booked our honeymoon in my married name as it is is filling in a new form which can ben sent of 3 months before hand as long as it is signed by the person who is marrying you. I cant wait going to have my new passport photos taken when i have my makeup trial!

laraandsteve  @mrsmorrisontobe Good idea with the make up trial! I've booked mine under my married name too and just need to get the form ready for the registra to fill in.
@sam2710 You can travel on your old passport until it expires. One of my friends has been married 2 years but still books holidays in her maiden name (as she didn't want to get a new passport with years still left on it) then takes her marriage certificate. As long as the name on the ticket and passport match, you'll be OK x

gina130284  @sam2710 We've booked the cruise in my maiden name - even though when I travel there I will be a Lewis and when travelling home I will be a Harvey. My passport is in Lewis and I will keep it this way until it runs out.

If you ask the person marrying you to sign your passport form in advance you can have your passport in your married name and can book the honeymoon in your married name too.

boycee  @sam2710 there was a useful link on an earlier thread here too http://www.finalstitch.co.uk/forum/thread/after-wedding-passport-name-change-..., but like the others have said main thing is that you book the honeymoon in the same name as on your passport

mysterymeg  @gina130284 I am currently a Lewis too! I'm a little sad that I won't be anymore in 18 days... @sam2710 I am travelling under my married name (touch wood) I left applying for it a bit late. It went in a week ago and should arrive next week. I'm supposed to fly on the 31st - slightly nervous currently! @laraandsteve and @mrsmorrisontobe do it as soon as you can once you're within the three months as the waiting is stressful lol

laraandsteve  @mysterymeg Oh dear! I don't envy you at the mo. My mum kept banging on about me doing it in case it didn't turn up on time. Worse case scenario, I'll drive to Peterbrough / Liverpool on the Monday as we fly on the Wednesday. Hope yours turns up!! xx

katiedarlin  im going in my maiden name...not paying £70 to quid to get my passport changed untill it runs out....tight i know but mainly its the principle...it really annoys me how much they charge for a renewal.grr

amandasteadman  my passprot runs out the same month as we are getting married so i need to renew mine anyway. The post office gave me a form which the priest can fill in to confirm that we are getting married and i can get my new passprot in my new name rather than pay twice in 1 year. @sam2710

emma89  I booked the honeymoon in my married name so will be changing my passport over, just because I prefer my married name over my maiden name lol! Found this thread useful tho as I didn't know about the priest filling in the form xx

mysterymeg  @laraandsteve mine came yesterday in the end - took 12 days in total, not as bad as I thought. I might actually get to go on my honeymoon after all lol

laraandsteve  @mysterymeg Pleased for you I'll still try and send mine as soon as I can! I say that now but I haven't send the marriage certificates in yet and keep saying I'll do that...! x

jezibella83  @sam2710 you can book the honeymoon in your married name and have your passport in your maiden name but you MUST take your marriage certificate with you to the airport as it is a legal document to say you were Jo Bloggs but you're now Jo Smith. It has to be the original document, no photocopies. I'm a supervisor for Emirates airlines at Gatwick Airport and this is a very common occurrence and acceptable by every airline in the world. I've worked on Easyjet, Thomas Cook, Thomson and several other airlines and every day you see women turn up with a different name in the passport to what's in the booking. On Emirates we see honeymoon couples every day so are very familiar with this. Similarly women who get divorced and their passport is in their married name but have decided to go back to their maiden name so book their flight in their maiden name have to have their divorce paperwork with them. We also get people who have changed their name by deed poll and it's the same scenario.

In order to change your name in your passport you have to buy a whole new 10 year passport which costs around £80. My passport expires in 2020 so I'm not going to pay out for a new one I'm just going to book in my married name and keep my marriage certificate with my passport.

Trust me, I've worked on airport check in for 10 years.

jezibella83  @boycee As per above comment you don't have to book your flight in the same name as your passport if you have official documents to prove your name change.

jen150912  Found this online - http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Passports/Howtochangethenameon...

My passport expires in March, and was planning to have my passport renewed in my married name, so we can go on honeymoon as Mr & Mrs Grassie. It means I won't have a passport for a few months, but I'm not planning on going anywhere until then! If my passport wasn't due to expire, then I'd be doing as @jezibella83 suggests, and taking my marriage certificate with me. I just have to tell h2b to remember and book our honeymoon as Grassie, and not Grassie/Tod! I assume we can do this????

xx

laraandsteve  @jen150912 I've booked our honeymoon as 'Mr and Mrs Cooper' so like you said, make sure he books it under the right name lol xx