Hello, I'm getting married in Prague this summer, and am hoping to add my husband's name to mine, with a hyphen. I don't know if this is commonly done; do you think we'll run into trouble with the matrika (that might not be the right spelling--I mean the marriage-records folks)? Will they honor this request, or consider it bizarre? (My last name is American; his is Czech.) How should we go about arranging it? Any advice/insight welcome!! Dekuji!
Yes, it's possible. I think the rule is that they put your new surname first and your maiden name second. They might want to stick a suffix -ova to your new surname though. I'm not sure if you can stop that from happening. :roll:
Actually, I think I missed something critical from idemtidem's post--the documents will have the adopted (Czech) name *first,* and *then* the last name?? I have no idea what implications that has for official documents--Czech, American, or otherwise. I don't quite understand how that works...... :shock:
Maybe it doesn't matter - I looked it up at the Department of the State website and couldn't find it anywhere. But the way I described is the one I've been seeing - it's possible that those people just wanted it to be that way.
