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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP -

I don't care what people do with their names or their kids' names.  But I'm not willing to put a lot of effort into figuring out names, either.  If I want to invite your kid to a birthday party, and I can't figure out your or your husband's email because all the last names are different, I probably just won't invite your kid (unless a close friend).  Someone will always be getting one of your names wrong.  You may not care, and that's fine.  Just go into this knowing that there are some drawbacks, and that of course having three last names will be more complicated.  [/quote]

Hmm.. good point. I supposed we could always set up an email address that is myfirstname.portmanteau@gmail.com and have it forward. But, my current email address is not firstname.lastname@gmail.com. Also, when you are figuring out email addresses, how do you know which domain they use, and how they have their email address structured? Do you just send the email invite to all firstname.lastname@domain.com? What if someone is firstinitiallastname@otherdomain.com? Honest question, just very curious about this and it's a point I hadn't though of. [/quote]

[b]OP again. Also, with many mothers have different last names than their children, if they kept their maiden name but gave child DH's last name (which seems to be the most common choice). How would you handle finding the email in that situation? Or just not bother inviting that kid?[/b][/quote]
You are overthinking it OP. In schools, the parent's contact information like emails and phone numbers are listed under child's name. [/quote]

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