How do I get married with BAEC?

[windsock]

After 18 years together we are finally getting married. We are both Silver members of the same Household Account, and have already booked the Honeymoon in early September using her current name. She is planning to change her passport/name after the honeymoon.

However how do I go about booking flights after she has changed name? Reward bookings will presumably be off as that is only for people in the household account and the new Mrs Windsock will not exist till end of August '13.

Normal bookings will probably not let me enter BAEC details for her as again the surname and card number do not match.

Is there some easy workaround for this? I am sure this occasion must have happened many times before. Presumably BAEC will be able to amend her membership details easily enough once we are married, but is there an easy way to enter and make the bookings till then. Can I create a virtual Mrs Windsock who will only exist after we have flown back from the Honeymoon?

Her current passport expires 2016 (I think!) so we don’t mind losing a few years from that. Our BAEC Year end is October 8th.

[PanGalactic]

There is no need to share a surname in order to create a household account, only the address needs to match.

Surname on any existing bookings can be changed on production of your marriage certificate to BAEC.

Congratulations on getting married by the way!

[Cap'n Benj]

When I was in the same boat, I simply sucked up a £30 change fee to change the name on the booking

The name on the BAEC account had been changed at that point.

[windowontheAside]

Do what I did. Don't change names

[shorthauldad]

Originally Posted by windowontheAside

Do what I did. Don't change names

+1 to that suggestion (...on Mrs Shorthauldad's behalf, I should add)

[PanGalactic]

Originally Posted by Cap'n Benj

When I was in the same boat, I simply sucked up a £30 change fee to change the name on the booking

The name on the BAEC account had been changed at that point.

They charged you?????

They didn't charge us, and I was blue at the time!!!

This was only last year by the way, the Mrs didn't bother getting a new passport until about 6 years after we were married.

[dark_horse]

Originally Posted by shorthauldad

+1 to that suggestion (...on Mrs Shorthauldad's behalf, I should add)

Mrs Shorthaulmum, shurely?

[srbrenna]

Mrs srbrenna and I were just advised to carry our marriage certificate along with us when there was a discrepancy with names. We never had any problems.

And Congratulations

[shorthauldad]

Originally Posted by dark_horse

Mrs Shorthaulmum, shurely?

Well, it's a reasonable suggestion, but she actually does mostly long-haul...

Opposites attract, and all that... (she flies *A)

[BA or bust]

Originally Posted by shorthauldad

(she flies *A)

And you are still married?

[Cap'n Benj]

Originally Posted by PanGalactic

They charged you?????

They didn't charge us, and I was blue at the time!!!

This was only last year by the way, the Mrs didn't bother getting a new passport until about 6 years after we were married.

Yup, was an F redemption. BAEC name was changed by sending in a copy of the marriage cert, the booking made before was under the previous name though, I don't know if we could have got it changed for free if we'd sent in a cert for that too, or mentioning it when the BAEC name was changed

[Paralytic]

Originally Posted by shorthauldad

Opposites attract, and all that... (she flies *A)

You should have sorted that in your marriage vows:

"...to love, honour and fly-BA..."

[To Eat.To Drink]

I think 75,000 Avios is the going rate. But marriage is a rather extreme way to show your loyalty to BAEC...

[CityFlyer99]

The faff of changing names is not worth it. My OH has a professional career and didn't want to alter it once we were married for both professional and sentimental reasons.

[KevinTheB]

Make sure there's a pre-nup in place to make sure any outstanding Avios miles get split fairly should the marriage fail to take off ...