I'm recently married. 1 1/2 years. At first i considered keeping my last name because my father had 3 girls and my maiden name would stop with us if we all changed our names. After giving it some thought I decided that marrying my husband meant I wanted to be with him and although he didn't tell me I couldn't he was extremely happy when I decided to take his last name. I decided to give our 1st son my fathers middle name to carry on a tradition. I say take the name it doesn't take away from who you are but if not... a great compromise would be to hyphenate the name. but it's what you feel comfortable with. Good Luck
