Millennial, Gen Z brides are refusing to say bye-bye to their last names: ‘I’m married, not bought’

Roses are red, violets are blue — these brides are breaking tradition and keeping their identities, too. 

Taking the plunge without taking their new husbands’ last names is a growing trend among ultramodern millennial and Gen Z gals. They’d rather stick with what’s on their birth certificates than sacrifice their selfhood in the name of conformity. 

“For my girls who didn’t change your last name, I want to hear your reason why,” Lucy, a married content creator, asked over 438,000 viewers in a viral video. “I never considered it because this was my given name.”

“I never understood why I would change it for someone else,” added the blonde, igniting a firestorm of feedback from feminists, agreeing that women shouldn’t have to ditch their original IDs after saying “I Do.”

It’s yet another new age swing away from convention. 

Nonconformist newlyweds are making up their own rules for marriage from day 1. 

Be it brides who to become stay-at-home husbands after getting hitched, couples today aren’t interested in maintaining the status quo. 

And just-married ladies like Lucy aren’t interested in losing their lifelong details for the sake of stale societal practices. 

“It’s an old school tradition based on property ownership and I don’t believe that humans should be property,” wrote a custom-busting commenter beneath Lucy’s trending TikTok post. 

“I got married, not bought,” echoed an equally rebellious belle. “I don’t find it necessary for a woman to change her identity once she gets married.”

Some argued that the name-changing process is too much of a hassle, saying their reason for refusing to make the switch was rooted in “50% feminism, 50% hating paperwork.”