Just like Brooklyn Peltz-Beckham, I took my wife's last name when we married
12.04.2022 - 21:01
/ msn.com
Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz had decided to double-barrel their surname after getting married in Florida, I gave a quiet nod of recognition and respect. You see, my wife and I have just celebrated our 10 year wedding anniversary and had decided to double-barrel our names long before the celebrity couple tied the knot. Brooklyn is being praised widely for making a progressive move and for showing his full commitment to his marriage to the billionaire heiress.
But when I decided to offer to take on my wife’s name with mine, above all I did it simply for love – as I’m sure Peltz-Beckham did as well. When I got down on one knee in 2010 on the Millennium Bridge near St Paul’s Cathedral, the only complex thought going through my mind was not to drop the ring in the Thames. She said yes, and safely put the ring on her finger.
After we celebrated, the wedding planning started like the acceleration of a moon rocket, following a trajectory my now wife had planned over many years. But the one outstanding question was what our surname was to be. Until we had broached the subject, it wasn’t something I had ever considered all that deeply before.
Being raised Catholic, my ingrained default position was that she would take my name in marriage, and we would be the Petales, an Italian surname passed to me on my father’s side. But this was hardly a passionate position I held. And the more I thought about it, the more I unpacked a lot of attitudes that I came to find restrictive.
My wife Carmen is an only child, and if she were to take my family’s name, hers would end. Also, I was marrying for love and to create our own family, not to recreate the societal undertow of a Regency romance. There had to be something else we could do.
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