Not only are they not getting married any more, the females of those that are getting married no longer seem to be taking their husband’s last name as their own. What is this all about? What happened to the two shall become one? Drives me crazy.
In [at least some parts of] Canada, the woman does NOT, by law, change her name. That one blindsided me when marrying a Canadian. Thankfully she uses my surname as normal convention, but on paper she’s hyphenated and in Canada still her maiden name.