Myluck! - If I was marrying my husband in this day and age, I might well do the same thing. I expect it's especially necessary if you are a professional and have a certain reputation. However, after over 30 years, he might get upset if I start using my maiden name. Retirement beckons :-)
I was ahead of my time keeping mine and after my thirty years the OH would wonder what I was up to if I changed mine! When newly engaged I remember an aunt asking me what my married name was going to be and I answered my then (and now and forever!) last name. She perked up and asked "has he the same name as you?" and once I answered I was lectured on respect for my spouse.....
Over the years I struggled with schools insisting on calling me Mrs..., people questioning the name of my next-of-kin, assumptions of all sorts, even my husband has been awarded my name on several ocassions over the years! Which to be fair he has taken to quite well.
My pet peeve on names is not using just one - I know people who are one name at work and another everywhere else. If you change, change; if you don't, don't!
Followed by changing your name for a job; Hilary Rodham kept her name in the mid 1970s when she married against the norms of the times but showing a liberal, feminist view. It was an issue for her husband when he stood for governor a few years later. In the 1980s she became Hilary Rodham Clinton to aid his political career. In 2000 while campaigning in her own right she campaigned as Hilary and her media advertisements dropped both surnames; by the end of the decade she was Hilary Clinton! What's in a name I ask you?
