As little girls, so many of us were guilty of doodling the title “Mrs.” in front of our crush’s last name in our various journals and diaries. In my lifetime alone, I’ve been “Mrs. Zac Hanson,” “Mrs. Justin Timberlake,” and eventually “Mrs. Joel Madden.” Funnily enough, when the time for actual marriage came, I ended up keeping my last name, which is something future bride Izzy Trimborn might want to consider doing.
People reported that in a TikTok video, Trimborn confessed she is less than excited to take her future husband’s last name.
“Aren’t you excited to take his last name?” Trimborn wrote over a photo featuring her and her fiancé, James Inyet.
“Not really,” she confessed in the next image, revealing her new name would be a bit of a vulgar pun: Izzy Inyet.
Yikes!
People in the comments did everything from laugh to commiserate.
“I love this trend makes me feel childish,” joked one user. “That CANNOT be his real last name,” worried another.
Of course, Trimborn could always opt to keep her last name, a practice that is becoming more common. According to Pew research 79% of women in the U.S. in heterosexual marriages still take their spouse’s last name. But considering it was a longstanding tradition, that’s actually a significantly lower percentage than in the past. Roughly 5% opted to hyphenate it with their maiden names, but 14% chose to keep their own last name.
Since Trimborn is in that 79%, the one comfort she can take is that at least she doesn’t have to go through elementary school with that last name. That would be a brutal way to spend those formative years. And should the couple have children, we’re sure she’ll be extra careful when choosing their names.
