Question about Last Names and Marriage

[princealbertofb]

Hello everyone. This is my first post outside of the introduction thread.

Anyway, hopefully in November, here in the state of Washington, same sex marriage will become legal. We already have civil unions here under the "Everything but Marriage Law". But I would personally much rather have same sex marriages.

My question is to those who live in states with legalized same sex marriage, or those who know something about the topic, and it may kind of sound rather simple.

When two people of the same sex get married, can one of the parties take the surname of their new spouse like the wife can take the husband's last name in a heterosexual marriage?

I think it may well be possible. One couple from the porn industry bore the same name: the Jaric couple, Aden and Jordan (I think) (now separated, maybe 'divorced'...)