>Hello Nadya,
>
>Excuse my stupidity or ignorance (take your pick) <g>
>
>Is this an european thing?
>
>I'm used over here (Canada) to see a wife keeping their family name or taking the family name of their husband after a wedding. I never saw or heard of a husband taking the family name of his wife.

Well, I do not know. I think, it's a rare occurrence. In Russia the husband could take wife's last name, but I never heard of such cases. My mom, though, kept her maiden name and never changed it.