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- NewsMarie-Claire Dorking
Meet the meshers: why married couples are now splicing up their surnames
Double-barrelling, with its instantly posh-upping capabilities is another option, but while once a popular alternative it seems hyphenated surnames are no longer de rigueur. Approximately 800 British newlyweds a year choose to mash-up their surnames and the soaring popularity of the practice has meant that the UK Deed Poll Service has had to create a separate system to cope with demand.
