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With marriage you change through use, so as long as you can prove a link through your marriage certificate. Blending seems a grey area depending on the approach and dare I say outcome.
The bank was the only place that hesitatedststing I needed a deed poll.
I gave them every opportunity before explaining the above, followed by would we be having this conversation if I was a woman.
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I should just have taken my wife’s surname, instead we double barrelled them both together so now when I give my surname people tend to just look at me like “wtf?”. Some times they’ll ask “which one is it?”
Fwiw, no cost, no documents, just went into the bank with the marriage certificate and had to post it to dvla and passport office when I changed those. My driving licence I waited until it needed renewed anyway which was a few years.
Dunno if it’d have been harder had I/we wanted to change it Bananahammock or something unrelated to our previous names.