Today on The Girl Define Show, we are talking about whether a woman should take on her husband's

last name or not. And I recently heard a conversation on a podcast between a Christian couple,

like an influencer couple, and they were talking about this. And the wife was saying, like,

she hasn't officially taken on her husband's last name. And part of the reason was because she

likes her her maiden name better. She's like, I think it's a little bit cooler. I like the way it

sounds. Maybe to her husband, you should take on my last name. So right now, they just have two

different last names. And they were just like discussing it and basically left it up to like,

hey, I think it's just after preference, whatever the couple wants, like, you know, no big deal,

like do what works for you. And I'm wondering, like, is there a deeper perspective? Is there

something we as Christians should be thinking about when it comes to marriage and when it comes

to this idea of taking on the husband's last name? Let's find out in today's episode.

Hey, sisterhood. It's Kristen here and Bethany and we're sisters and the founders of Girl Define.

And we're so pumped you're joining us for this conversation. And honestly, every episode

because here at Girl Define, you know, we are passionate about discovering God's design

for our lives as women, looking in his timeless word and understanding how he wants us to live

as modern women. We know his word is timeless. It's true. He has answers for our beauty,

identity, worth value, purpose, everything that has to do with womanhood. God's word has answers.

And so that's what we dig into here at Girl Define. And today's conversation is an interesting one

because this is something that I don't know like it is becoming really popular for people to do a

wide variety of things when it comes to their last name. But I'm kind of curious, as we kick

this off, when you got married today, were you ever thinking, I know you obviously did take his

last name, but was there ever a question of like, should I? Yeah. So it was interesting. A lot of

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