MissNowMrs.com
April 8, 2009
As I told Rachel when I first e-mailed her about the assistant/marketing manager position, I’m a wedding-holic. I thought I had a pretty good handle on all the top wedding sites and all the nifty things you can do to make your wedding your own.
What I never thought about, though, were the legal implications of getting married. It changes your tax status (which I noticed while doing my own taxes this year, still single), and changing your name has its own host of paperwork. I moved in August 2008 and I’m still finding out where I forgot to change my address. I can only imagine how much harder it is to change your name, since that’s so much more closely tied with your identity.
While working together today, Rachel mentioned that I should check out MissNowMrs.com, an online name-change service. At first, I was a little skeptical, but when the site’s creators mentioned it takes the average bride 13 hours to change her name, I was definitely more interested. After poking around the site for a while, I’m sold.
The process is broken down into three major steps: Questions, Forms, and File. There’s a $29.95 fee for the Complete package, which includes just about everything you’ll ever need to change your name: Social Security, IRS, Passport, Driver’s License, Voter Registration (the last two are customized by state), and notification letters for banks, credit cards, bills, and other institutions. Based on your answers in the Questions section, you’re led to the forms you’ll need for your state.
One of the important things I noticed about the site is that it’s secured with SSL encryption and is checked daily for information safety. If you don’t want to fill out certain information online (like your social security number), you can just write it in after printing out all the forms.
For $29.95, this really seems like a handy service to use. You have 6 months of unlimited access to your account, so you can complete all the forms at your own pace. You can even fill out all the information before your wedding, then print and file everything after you’re married and receive your marriage certificate. The site recommends requesting 2-3 certified marriage certificates so you can file all the forms at once (many name-change forms require legal proof of your marriage).
Rachel received a complimentary subscription when she got married, and says it was great because she had no idea she would have to change her name in so many places. MissNowMrs.com walked her through the obvious changes, but also the lesser-known places that she needed to change. She said she was surprised that so many places have your information and need that information corrected officially. Rachel noted that MissNowMrs.com was really easy to use and that a lot of the forms were prefilled for her based on information gained from the Questions section.
All in all, we recommend that you give MissNowMrs.com a peek. Take a look around the site, get familiar with how it all works, and dive in! You can bet I’ll be adding it to my super-secret Excel sheet I have with all my wedding ideas!
Edit: try using PM080 as a promo code to save $5! It might be an old code, but it’s worth a shot.
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