Wife and I are going to Germany for several months on August 22nd, she had to wait for her name change to go in effect (we married May 26th and didn't receive the paperwork for it till 3 weeks ago) to apply for her passport. We went to the post office, paid almost 200$ in shipping/expedite, it took 12 days from the day we went to the post office to the day it was in her hands.

Me on the other hand applied around late march (We think it was about the 16th, not entirely sure) and I have still not recieved my passport, although talking to some others that are going on the trip with us, the applied a little bit earlier than we did and they are just now receiving theirs so hopefully mine isn't too far behind.