Originally Posted by
Bowgie
Wife and I married over 25 years ago. She never bothered to change her last name to mine. We had zero problems with that choice, and avoided a ton of paperwork hassles in this post-911 world.
That's not particulalry useful advice to the OP since his wife IS changing her name.
I would go with Option 2....just book now without skymiles number - then add it on later. Very easy to do and no issues.
I have to do this often when my travel agency books a ticket with 2 airlines.