Old and New Names.

[johno]

Time to renew my drivers license and for some reason I have to do the long form and actually go in and get a eye test, new pic and give a finger print. chriso, who is 11 days older then I am, only needs to send in a check with the preprinted form.

One of the questions is if you've ever used a different name.

The answer for me is yes. After we got married, we both changed our names to what I've considered by family name to be.

Then it asks what names have you used.

I wrote down my old name.

It looked odd.
It looked strange.
I didn’t like it.

35 years I carried a name I didn’t like.

Now I understand where that feeling of freedom came from on our wedding day, when Pastor Don introduced us as Chris and John O'Halloran.

Perhaps the subject should be: True Names.

Comments

[trystel.livejournal.com]

Very cool! Never heard a story like that one before. Sounds like you made a lot of people happy. :-)

[johno.livejournal.com]

We didn't want to give my Mom a heart attack, so we told her in advance.

Several of our friends knew, as they had helped us create some of the "O'Halloran" favors.

While neither my Mother nor our friends, shared the secret, most of our friends knew to wait for a "surprise" that my family didn't know about.

On the video tape, when the Pastor announced "With great pleasure, let me introduce you to Mr & Mrs O'HALLORAN!", you can see our friends, Chris, and I and staring at my family. For a moment, there was dead silence, suddenly my Aunt lets out a big whoop as she got it, then my Uncles caught on. Then everybody cheered.

Also, caught on video that we didn't notice a the time, was the 4 or 5 different blessings that were called out when the Pastor declared us "Man and Wife."