Passport maiden, Ticket married
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Government issued photo ID is not required to fly domestically. The TSA will let you though the checkpoint but one has to under go additional screening.
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Definitely helps when the divorce comes around. Lot less paperwork to deal with then.
But yes, people do stupid stuff when they get married and don't think things out. Booking tickets for the honeymoon is one of them.
But yes, people do stupid stuff when they get married and don't think things out. Booking tickets for the honeymoon is one of them.
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Just FWIW, I think we all recently saw those articles on the FT home page about how within the span of the same week, several TSA employees allowed people through with entirely mismatching documents. So take that for what it's worth.
Here's what we did (or are in the process of doing). We got married at the end of March, and our honeymoon was about a week and a half after the wedding. Since I had booked the tickets using unused ticket credit (which was refunded to our own name and skymiles account), and we had two flights already booked prior to even deciding when we'd go on our honeymoon, and I had just signed my wife up for global entry, and there was just no way we'd get her a new passport after getting the marriage certificates and then try to update her SM account and try to go through the process of the name change on all her tickets, we elected to just travel with her current (maiden name) passport. Then, in between booking the honeymoon and actually getting married, we had bought tickets for a family reunion over the summer. So I figured I would just get her a new passport, change her name for global entry, and get her DL account changed after the summer trip. But then, we ended up booking Thanksgiving and Christmas travel. So I decided I would do it all in January. Then I found a good deal to use all my miles for J tickets, so we're going in April. And my wife will likely be flying for work between January and April.
TLDR: It's been a whirlwind and I've had to keep pushing back when we'll update her passport. I don't really know what it takes to change the name on tickets already purchased, hence why I have just wanted to wait. Now, though, our only two ticketed trips are Christmas in paid F, and then the award trip in J. Since several people have mentioned that the only way to change the name is cancel the ticket and repurchase, I definitely don't want to do that. I don't know if they'd be able to cancel the award ticket, change her name in the system, and then allow us to rebook the same itinerary at the same low award level for the same days... Her passport only needs to be valid for three months after our day of departure, so even though her passport expires some time in late summer or early fall 2016, she easily meets the three month requirement.
So I will also add my voice to the "you guys need to calm down" choir.
Here's what we did (or are in the process of doing). We got married at the end of March, and our honeymoon was about a week and a half after the wedding. Since I had booked the tickets using unused ticket credit (which was refunded to our own name and skymiles account), and we had two flights already booked prior to even deciding when we'd go on our honeymoon, and I had just signed my wife up for global entry, and there was just no way we'd get her a new passport after getting the marriage certificates and then try to update her SM account and try to go through the process of the name change on all her tickets, we elected to just travel with her current (maiden name) passport. Then, in between booking the honeymoon and actually getting married, we had bought tickets for a family reunion over the summer. So I figured I would just get her a new passport, change her name for global entry, and get her DL account changed after the summer trip. But then, we ended up booking Thanksgiving and Christmas travel. So I decided I would do it all in January. Then I found a good deal to use all my miles for J tickets, so we're going in April. And my wife will likely be flying for work between January and April.
TLDR: It's been a whirlwind and I've had to keep pushing back when we'll update her passport. I don't really know what it takes to change the name on tickets already purchased, hence why I have just wanted to wait. Now, though, our only two ticketed trips are Christmas in paid F, and then the award trip in J. Since several people have mentioned that the only way to change the name is cancel the ticket and repurchase, I definitely don't want to do that. I don't know if they'd be able to cancel the award ticket, change her name in the system, and then allow us to rebook the same itinerary at the same low award level for the same days... Her passport only needs to be valid for three months after our day of departure, so even though her passport expires some time in late summer or early fall 2016, she easily meets the three month requirement.
So I will also add my voice to the "you guys need to calm down" choir.
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Any man who is currently thinking of getting married and not taking in consideration the financial ramifications of their decision is a fool. Currently the divorce rate has gone up to 60%, and in the overwhelming majority of cases, the guy is robbed blind by the ex, and the lawyer. Always get a prenup. You never expect to have your house burn down, but isn't it nice when the insurance is there to save your butt?
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Government issued photo ID is not required to fly domestically. The TSA will let you though the checkpoint but one has to under go additional screening.
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I really don't understand why people would rather be hassled and make things harder rather than just having one name and getting a passport for that one correct name....? (I'm not talking about OP, but all the other comments).
For honeymoon you use maiden name on ticket and get new passport when you get back.
Most problems in life are self inflicted.
For honeymoon you use maiden name on ticket and get new passport when you get back.
Most problems in life are self inflicted.
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I really don't understand why people would rather be hassled and make things harder rather than just having one name and getting a passport for that one correct name....? (I'm not talking about OP, but all the other comments).
For honeymoon you use maiden name on ticket and get new passport when you get back.
Most problems in life are self inflicted.
For honeymoon you use maiden name on ticket and get new passport when you get back.
Most problems in life are self inflicted.
As to some of the other comments in this thread, it's really our own personal decision and no one else's business that she chose to change her name to match mine. It's something we discussed beforehand but ultimately was her decision. I do think having the same name and only one name will make a number of things easier over the coming decades, particularly since we were married in our mid-to-late-20s.
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Any man who is currently thinking of getting married and not taking in consideration the financial ramifications of their decision is a fool. Currently the divorce rate has gone up to 60%, and in the overwhelming majority of cases, the guy is robbed blind by the ex, and the lawyer. Always get a prenup. You never expect to have your house burn down, but isn't it nice when the insurance is there to save your butt?
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I always wonder why people do this - book a ticket in a name other than the name on the ID. Did they just not think about it earlier? Did they think they might have been able to get the passport changed but didn't? Did they think they couldn't fly under their maiden name after getting married even though the ID still showed the maiden name? Maybe being frequent flyer skews our perception, but it seems so easy to some of us!
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Any man who is currently thinking of getting married and not taking in consideration the financial ramifications of their decision is a fool. Currently the divorce rate has gone up to 60%, and in the overwhelming majority of cases, the guy is robbed blind by the ex, and the lawyer. Always get a prenup. You never expect to have your house burn down, but isn't it nice when the insurance is there to save your butt?
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