Hi again all and thanks for the congratulations.. we are setting up reservations now for our dinner which we have decided on Spazio (it&#39;s a romantic jazz dinner club) <a href="http://www.spazio.la" target="_blank">http://www.spazio.la</a><br />It&#39;s close by the house.. so it makes it convienent...and since we both love jazz ...it was a no brainier. We will be toasting the event with a bottle of Louis Roederer &quot;Cristal&quot;, 1997... that is for those who wanted to know.. <img src="http://www.cruisecrazies.com/community/images/forum/tr-emoticons/happy.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":happy:" border="0" alt="happy.gif" /> <br /><br />Hello Cheryl are you telling me you don&#39;t know any same sex couples?? and your in Colorado??.. how shocking&#33;&#33; <img src="http://www.cruisecrazies.com/community/images/forum/tr-emoticons/tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":tongue:" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" /> .. <br /><br />Well as in all marriages, (same sex or opposite sex) the choice to legally take the last name of the other partner is a personal one.. <br />I have known ladies who kept their maiden name after marring the man of their dreams because they wanted that &quot;feeling&quot; of independence.. I have known men to change their last name because it made their wifes family happy.. and i have known couples who hyphenate the last names ...<br />for us I think for now, we will not legally change our names; but will when in fact for &quot;social purposes&quot; become hyphenated ...(Brecker -Richardson)...only signing our maiden legal names when called for by law..<br />i hope that made sense..