For all of you ladies who are changing your names when you get married and are going on honeymoon soon after, you can change your passport up to 3 months before. You need a postdating form and the passport will only be valid from your wedding date, but will be nice to go away with your married name! Just found this out when filling out h2b's passport form :-)
CommentAuthorMrs Steph Lapworth
Oh thats good to know now thats one less thing to find out lol x
Love Steph xxx
28th May 2011
Is Now Mrs Lapworth xxx
CommentAuthorDrunchPunk
Oh cheers Possum, that's good to know!
CommentAuthorRebecca
oo thanks for that!!! we're have 2 mini moons and the second part is the one where i need my new passport but it might be good to put my new surname on it before we get married so i have ages on it!!! lol thanks!!!
CommentAuthorkem
does it matter if you dont change your passport tho? x
You can use your maiden name if hol is booked in that name. x
CommentAuthorkem
ok i thought so but i have ages left on mine,i didnt know how long i could leave it for
x
CommentAuthorauntiewoo
Think you can leave it 'til it expires-then get a new one in your married name-as long as you remember to book in the name on your passport you will be ok. x
CommentAuthorkem
ok been paniking as im changing everything else x
CommentAuthorCarlyroo
any idea if its the same if its the first passport you have ever applied for????
CommentAuthorauntiewoo
You can apply for a passport in your married name-before you get married-but the person marrying you-registrar etc-has to fill in part of it-think there's a special form you have to get. But I think?? that as long as you travel under the same name as on your passport it doesn't matter whether it's your maiden or married name!
CommentAuthormrs pinkalice
yeah thats what i read, the registrar/vicar has to sign a form confirming that you are getting married on that date, and then the passport is only valid from that date. Seems like a lot of hassle think i'll just travel in my maiden name and sort the passport out later!
CommentAuthoronewilson@btinternet
Hi all, I was on the uk passport site the other day trying to find out the same info and apparently you have to pay the full price of £72 for the re-issue of your passport. I only got mine last year and paid £72, they will very kindly add on any time you have left up to a max of 15 months!!! I can't believe the price of this to have your surname changed! I was sooo excited about travelling in my married name, but am now going to book in my maiden name!
CommentAuthorOfficially Mrs Nicol
i don't own a passport yet, i've never needed one the furthest place i have been is england and scotland.. lol would i have to change my driving licence to? :)
CommentAuthorPossum
You'll have to pay eventually if you're going to change your name as a passport is what most people need as proof of identity :-) Doesn't matter if you aren't changing your name but.
CommentAuthorClaire Sky
i thought it was expensive! luckily were only going to scotland! no passport needed! xxx
CommentAuthorjennab123
god didnt even think of that lol x
CommentAuthormrs pinkalice
yeah you have to change driving licence as well, you can get fined if you get pulled over and it has the wrong details on. Its annoying coz im moving house soon so will have to change it then and again when i get married. dont think driving licence is as much as passport tho
CommentAuthorPossum
My driving license has my parents' address on because I'm a student and move around all the time! Would that matter? Not that I have a car!
CommentAuthormrs pinkalice
i dont know! technically your parents address could be classed as your address while your a student?? im not sure of the ins and outs of it lol just know that its a pain to sort out! but yeah if you don't have a car then its probably doesnt matter lol
CommentAuthorMrs Alsbetty
my passport is only a couple of years old don't want to fork out for another one again plus i know that i'll be mrs Marriott so no matter
Enjoying being a wifey!!
Currently baking a small person at last, took a while :)
CommentAuthorMrs Rebecca Hossfeld
Yeah mine only got issued last year, but Grrrrrrr I will need to get a new one if I want to try to live in Canada as Adam's wife I think
CommentAuthorMrs Alsbetty
oh i see, bad really isn't as you have all the paper work to proof you are married, i think they should do it for a free as a wedding gift type thing haha as if! x
Enjoying being a wifey!!
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CommentAuthorMrs Rebecca Hossfeld
Yeah they should, it's rediculous, I mean you spend out to get married etc so why the heck should we pay to change our name???
CommentAuthorMrs Alsbetty
anthing to make money! we should start a campaign! x
Enjoying being a wifey!!
Currently baking a small person at last, took a while :)
CommentAuthorMrs Rebecca Hossfeld
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Totally, dunno how we would go about it though..write to the PM? LOL
CommentAuthorMrs Alsbetty
yeah i guess! hmm x
Enjoying being a wifey!!
Currently baking a small person at last, took a while :)
CommentAuthorMrs Rebecca Hossfeld
I don't evn know if we could start an online peitition or not as well?
CommentAuthorMrs Alsbetty
yeah on the 10 downing street site i think i know how to do it
Enjoying being a wifey!!
Currently baking a small person at last, took a while :)
CommentAuthorMrs Rebecca Hossfeld
Oh cool, I've done some signing of them but never started one though, I signed everyone of Gok Wan's peititions on there.
CommentAuthorMrs Alsbetty
not seen those, i sign all the animal related ones like the hunting ban to be kept etc
Enjoying being a wifey!!
Currently baking a small person at last, took a while :)
CommentAuthorMrs Rebecca Hossfeld
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Posted on your wall about it, as don't want to derail this thread too much.
But having a peitition or lots of people writing to the PM etc would be good if we could get loads of people interested in it, I really think it's unfair that we have to pay all that money just because we got married, it's almost like a punishment, surely they want people to have a happy stable home environment & want to promote marriage?
CommentAuthorPossum
I wonder if adopted children need new passports? On a child passport note - how ridiculous is it for babies to have their own passport? I could show you a baby that lives in a different country to the one on the passport and no-one would know the difference! One of the terms is if the baby's head needs to be supported, the hand supporting the head must not be shown in the photograph.
Nanny state this is :(
CommentAuthorkateh3
my passport will need renewing so that i can go on my honeymoon so from what iv been reading am i right in saying that it would be best to renew it in my married name to be rather than having a new 10 yr passport in my maiden name coz it would then cost me around £72 again just to get a name change!
CommentAuthorcatch
brill, l didn't know that one, darn l just bought my updated passport in october.. how much do they charge for name change please??
CommentAuthorMrs Alsbetty
yeah i think thats right! mine was only renewed 2 years ago annoying really haha
Enjoying being a wifey!!
Currently baking a small person at last, took a while :)
CommentAuthorcatch
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Grr!! why is it that just wen you think you have all the financial wedding cost in place something else comes up and it cost plenty Argh!!!!! lol
CommentAuthorkirsto
I agree v43 will just have to wait for that one i fink...x
CommentAuthorMrs Rebecca Hossfeld
Yeah I'm gonna have fun with that because I'll be in Canada so i have to send my passport over to the UK for it to be sorted..eeeep!
CommentAuthorkateh3
yeah defo more money costs but very glad iv seen this now at least iv saved myself money too! be silly getting it renewed in my maiden name n then changing it again a few months later!!
CommentAuthorshellay
i was wondering what you had to do, thanks for clarifying it x
I have know my soulmate for 27 years and on the 6th August
I married him and became Mrs Garnham.
It was most definitely the happiest day of my life.
I love married life !!!!
CommentAuthorginge23
Iv had my form all filled in by the minister so just need to get it sent to passport office. My passport is out of date now so thought im best gettin it in my married name its exciting xx
CommentAuthorJessica
I have all the forms just need to get a minute to go to the registry office to get it signed. Do you think they will sign it on a weekend?
CommentAuthorginge23
Not sure if they open weekends jessica I know ours dosent. xx
CommentAuthorJessica
Oh dear because as like you i am running out of time and im not off work now until 14th April. Maybe they will let my mum take it to be signed!
CommentAuthormrs pinkalice
mine is open on saturdays by appoinment so i'd give them a call x
CommentAuthorginge23
Im sure the would let ur mum do it Jessica we really need to get our notice of wedding banns in and like you im not off work till end April now but its the day after my hen night so I doubt I will make it lol I might need to take a wee half day to go in xx
