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 :-)

Oh cheers Possum, that's good to know!

does it matter if you dont change your passport tho? x

ok i thought so but i have ages left on mine,i didnt know how long i could leave it for

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ok been paniking as im changing everything else x

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!

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!

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.

god didnt even think of that lol x

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!

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

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

anthing to make money! we should start a campaign! x

yeah i guess! hmm x

yeah on the 10 downing street site i think i know how to do it

not seen those, i sign all the animal related ones like the hunting ban to be kept etc

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 :(

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??

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

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!

i was wondering what you had to do, thanks for clarifying it x

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?

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!

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