How would you design address labels/stamps with two last names?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Yes, the same goes for dad. He is Larla's dad. Kids will call him Mr. Smith-Jones if that's Larla's lastname. Most kids assume that families have the same last name unless there's a divorce/remarriage.

Kids whose parents have different last names don't.

You're not arguing, are you, that John Jones should change his last name to Smith-Jones because elementary-school classmates of Larla Smith-Jones will assume that his last name is Smith-Jones? Let alone that John Jones's failure to change his last name to Smith-Jones demonstrates that he's going to great lengths to distinguish himself from his daughter? (Probably everybody is pretty clear on the idea that John Jones and Larla Smith-Jones are different people.)

I'm not arguing that at all.

Suzy Smith and John Jones can keep their names. But if they have kids and hyphenate their lastname, then why not hyphenate the flipping address labels???

Suzy's lastname is Smith. We get it.

John's lastname is Jones. Rock on!

But their family last name is Smith-Jones. If it's good enough for the kids and the school directory, then why not for the holiday card return address labels?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is a forward slash different or better than a hyphen?

What statement do you feel you are making with a forward slash?

Why not use an asterisk?

The hyphen is an actual part of the name of one person in the family—our kid. He doesn’t send mail yet, so it makes no sense for his name to be the one on the return address stamp.

Don’t worry; this isn’t that confusing to people other than you.

I think you might be surprised what others think about your insistence that you and your spouse and children have 3 different last names.

I’ve never had reason to think about it until now, so I have not manifested “insistence.” But mostly my friends and coworkers are involved in administering data, so they would consider this an uncontroversial claim.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I'm not arguing that at all.

Suzy Smith and John Jones can keep their names. But if they have kids and hyphenate their lastname, then why not hyphenate the flipping address labels???

Suzy's lastname is Smith. We get it.

John's lastname is Jones. Rock on!

But their family last name is Smith-Jones. If it's good enough for the kids and the school directory, then why not for the holiday card return address labels?

Because they don't want to.

You keep insisting that the family has a family last name, and that the family last name is Smith-Jones. I don't know why. Unlike in Germany, there is no law that says a family has to have a "family last name".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ours is like this:



But I also like this:

Do the second one and add the kids' last name as well.

Smith
Jones
Smith-Jones

With lines between each name.

Or

Smith, Jones & Smith-Jones

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I'm not arguing that at all.

Suzy Smith and John Jones can keep their names. But if they have kids and hyphenate their lastname, then why not hyphenate the flipping address labels???

Suzy's lastname is Smith. We get it.

John's lastname is Jones. Rock on!

But their family last name is Smith-Jones. If it's good enough for the kids and the school directory, then why not for the holiday card return address labels?

Because they don't want to.

You keep insisting that the family has a family last name, and that the family last name is Smith-Jones. I don't know why. Unlike in Germany, there is no law that says a family has to have a "family last name".

Um, the original post seems to indicate the op wants a "family" label.

It's fine if you don't want a family label. But the inquiry seems to ask for input on what others do. And it seems like families with children with hyphenated names accept the fact that the hyphenated name is the commonly accepted family name.

[Anonymous]

Smith-Jones
Smith • Jones
Smith | Jones
Smith & Jones
Smith/Jones
Smith\Jones
Smith//Jones
Smith*Jones
SmithJones
SMITHjones

Which looks like a family last name?
Which looks like a business name?
Which looks just plain silly?

I think if you start with your kids' actual last name, this should be pretty easy to figure out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a married woman whose husband didn't take my last name. We do:

Smith/Jones
1234 Timid Deer Lane
etc etc

Yes!!! Me too. Why on earth didn’t they take our names though?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is a forward slash different or better than a hyphen?

What statement do you feel you are making with a forward slash?

Why not use an asterisk?

The hyphen is an actual part of the name of one person in the family—our kid. He doesn’t send mail yet, so it makes no sense for his name to be the one on the return address stamp.

Don’t worry; this isn’t that confusing to people other than you.

I think you might be surprised what others think about your insistence that you and your spouse and children have 3 different last names.

I’ve never had reason to think about it until now, so I have not manifested “insistence.” But mostly my friends and coworkers are involved in administering data, so they would consider this an uncontroversial claim.

I am the one who originally posted about her friend insisted that they have three last names. I said something about a neighbor who said she didn’t know how to Address our Christmas card. Because of divorce, my family is Smith/Jones/Robertson So I’m not talking about data entry. I’m talking about thank you notes and Christmas cards.