So getting married is such a great experience and one milestone in my life. I am so happy that at my age, I finally settled down. One thing that made this momentous life event a bit of a frustration though was the changing of names and civil status. Yes, I wanted to carry my husband's last name because that was part of the reason I married him in the first place.
I already knew even before I got married that I had to go through another round of government-agency-hopping-hassle because I had to update my records. I needed to update my last name and civil status. And so the fuss had begun!
About 3 weeks after the wedding my Marriage Certificate was finally released and our pastor had given it to me. That was good news because I was finally able to claim my cash gift from our company. And then our HR staff told me to process all the updating needed.
The only good news about the updating process was that I didn't need to go to the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) to update my civil status because the company would handle that for me. The bad news was, I had to go to the other 3 government agencies (SSS, PhilHealth, and Pag-ibig) to personally update my records.
So another 3 weeks had past before I finally had the will[ingness] to update my records. For the past 3 weeks I always cancelled my plans of going to the said agencies because I was feeling lazy. I always feared the long queue of people transacting with those agencies and I just didn't want to go through with the strenuous process. I even reached the point of asking myself why I even decided to get married! Lolz! The craziness just hit me!
Good thing, I was finally able to convince myself that I needed to get things done already so that I wouldn't have to stress myself on always thinking about it. Thank God for my very willing sister who I was able to convince to accompany me in all the updating process I had to go through.
Finally, I was already able to update all my records on all three agencies and soon I would finally have my husband's last name in all my government IDs.
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