Bride Goes Viral After Deciding to Let Her Wedding Guests Choose Their Last Name

• TikTok user Danielle Bonadona revealed that she and fiancé Jacob Bartlebaugh are currently deciding whether they should hyphenate their last names into Bonadona-Bartlebaugh or keep their separate last names.
• After discussing it in several TikTok videos, Bonadona said the couple decided that loved ones attending their February wedding could make the final decision by holding a vote that would determine “whether we should hyphenate our name or not.”
• “My whole life I’ve been called ‘Bonadona’ and so I go by that name and so everyone calls me ‘Bona’ or ‘Bonadona,’” she explained, adding, “And so it’s almost like changing my name in a very weird way.” “

Not knowing what to do with their last names after the wedding, the couple agreed to an unusual solution: letting the wedding guests decide.

Last month, Danielle Bonadona laid out the dilemma she and fiancé Jacob Bartlebaugh are currently facing in a series of TikToks that have since racked up millions of views, and revealed that the couple had decided to leave the fate of their last names in the hands of their wedding guests.

October 10 TikTokBonadona, the art teacher, said it all started when Bartlebaugh expressed a desire to hyphenate their last names, but the resulting last name turned out to be quite unwieldy and caused a strong reaction on the Internet.

“People are going crazy over the idea that we could be called Bonadona-Bartlebaugh,” she said in the video.

In addition, she added video“I just don’t even know if people can tell.”

After talking about it, Bonadona said the couple decided that loved ones attending their February wedding could make the final decision by holding a vote that would determine “whether we should hyphenate our name or not.”

“Because we both really love our last names,” she explained. “None of us want to give up our last name, so yeah, we’ll just ask our guests to vote for it.”

Sharing her personal reasons for wanting to keep her last name, Bonadona said, “I don’t want to lose my last name, I don’t want to lose the ‘Bonadona’ part.”

“My whole life I’ve been called ‘Bonadona’ and that’s why I use that name and that’s why everyone calls me ‘Bona’ or ‘Bonadona,’” she continued. “And so it’s like changing my name in a very strange way, like I couldn’t imagine not having Bonadona in my name officially, but I’d be happy to include or add his name, which is Bartlebaugh.”

So there are only two options: keep their original last names or hyphenate them, resulting in a “fun and silly” name that “we kind of like,” Bonadona admitted.

Bonadona’s fiance “is definitely rooting for the postponement because it was his idea all along,” she said. Newsweek. “Personally, I also hope people choose Bonadon-Bartlebaugh at this point because I think the internet would be pissed if our family and friends let them down.”

Her tune seems to have changed a bit over time, however, because when Bartlebaugh first suggested hyphenation, Bonadona “thought it was completely funny from a humorous point of view,” she said. Newsweek. “Our names are so stupid and I thought, ‘We’ll never be able to fill out any forms.’ »

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The couple’s wedding—and their hotly anticipated last name vote—are still a few months away, but in the meantime, their transfer situation has gotten a ton of attention on TikTok. Dilemma inspired songsTik Tok dance trendand encouraged strangers to recognize Bonadona and approach her in person, as she later recounted in TikTok.

“It’s very, very surreal that half the internet is rooting for our wedding right now,” she explained in an Oct. 31 post. mail.

“It brought so much joy to Jake and I, and I think it bodes well for our holiday,” she said. Newsweek. “There’s a lot of goodwill being sent out into the universe, and it’s very touching. I am very grateful to everyone who participated in the creation of the video.”