Booking Honeymoon Wife's maiden or married name on room?

[Disneyholic]

My son is getting married in September 2015 and his fiancée' just called and said that she needs to keep her maiden name for her plane tickets. Does she also need to keep her maiden name for the room or can I keep the reservation with her married name as I have it now? Anyone here have any experience with this? TIA

 

[clayfolks]

What we have learned (the hard way) is that if using DME for airline check in and transfer back to the airport, the name on the reservation must be the same as the name on the ticket.

 

[DebbieB]

My son is getting married in September 2015 and his fiancée' just called and said that she needs to keep her maiden name for her plane tickets. Does she also need to keep her maiden name for the room or can I keep the reservation with her married name as I have it now? Anyone here have any experience with this? TIA

Is the reservation in your son's name? They will ask for ID and he would be fine. They would not ask for hers. For the plane, she needs ID to match the ticket.

 

[CarolMN]

I'd go with whatever name will be on her ID at the time. She may need to show photo ID if there is a problem with the reservation or her tickets or her credit card purchases. (May not be likely, but some glitch could turn up).

And as already mentioned any Magical Express reservation requires names to match what is on resort reservation.

This might be a good question to ask on the Weddings and Honeymoon board to see what other brides may have experienced in that area.

 

[Denise W]

My daughter got married last April and we gifted them points for their honeymoon. They then went on a cruise. Everything was booked in her maiden name because she would not have time to do all the paperwork to legally change her name on her license, passport, social security card, bank accounts, etc, until they got home. She also needed sealed copies of her marriage license in order to make those changes and she was unable to get those copies until she got home. So for the honeymoon she used her maiden name, and then she made all the changes later.
Denise

 

[bumbershoot]

For honeymoons right after the wedding, use the maiden name.

 

[nkosiek]

I know 7 years ago we used my wife's maiden name for the reservation/DME as this is what would be on the airline ticket as well as the fact that the name change wouldn't be official yet.

Getting a name change to her maiden name on the reservation should be a piece of cake, I'd do it and let it be one less thing they will have to worry about/think about with everything else going on around the event.

 

[Brian Noble]

I'd go with whatever name will be on her ID at the time.

This is what I would do as well.

 

[Disneyholic]

Thanks for all the input. Plane tickets they booked in her maiden name. Called DVC to add a day to their reservation and had her name changed to first name, maiden name, married name. That way she is covered.

 

[bumbershoot]

See, I wouldn't consider that to be covered. Your son's last name won't legally be hers at that time. I would just make it maiden.

(of course, I'm coming from the perspective of someone who didn't change her name and never actually told MIL because she'd go ballistic since she went against her culture of birth by changing her name, and wants others to do so as well...so to me I wonder if all of this is being discussed because she isn't actually changing her name but doesn't want the discussion)

(I doubt it's actually the case, but it just is what I think)

(not sure MIL yet realizes that our son's last name is hyphenated, LOL)

Regardless of those opinions, I'd change it to just maiden. That will be her legal name at the time of the reservation, and I think legal names are the ones we should use.

 

[nkosiek]

Thanks for all the input. Plane tickets they booked in her maiden name. Called DVC to add a day to their reservation and had her name changed to first name, maiden name, married name. That way she is covered.

I don't think it is. If her name is Daisy Quack and she gets married and honeymoons at Disney, her maiden name is still Daisy Quack. It isn't Daisy Quack Duck. Lord knows Disney's IT isn't exactly top-notch and it only takes one wrong keystroke or entry and this whole thing is a mess.

 

[supersnoop]

Getting married doesn't change your last name, at least not automatically or instantly. Her last name will remain the same until she files the appropriate paperwork.

 

[schoen]

On my honeymoon, I was on the reservation under my Mother-in-Law's name. We changed it at check in, and it was no big deal. This is not a huge problem to worry over, it is easy to sort out if there is an issue once they get there.

 

[AlexisMaxMommy]

Everyone here has good points about needing the name to match the ID.

Call the resort and ask. They deal with this stuff all the time.

 

[Brian Noble]

Or, just match the name to the ID, and then there is nothing that can go wrong.

 

[davedmaine]

My son is getting married in September 2015 and his fiancée' just called and said that she needs to keep her maiden name for her plane tickets. Does she also need to keep her maiden name for the room or can I keep the reservation with her married name as I have it now? Anyone here have any experience with this? TIA

They can simply carry a copy of the marriage license too with her maiden name on it..