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(( Hello Nippon! Here is one (1) incredibly happy Fae on your screen. Ear-to-ear smile, beaming eyes. You know, all that stuff that comes on what is probably the happiest day of one's life. ))

Hi everyone! Hope you're all doing well and staying warm. I got married this morning and just wanted to take a minute to introduce myself by my new name (names are very important where I come from).

Hello. I'm Will Lawan-Park.

(( Off-screen, another can be heard chanting 'me too, me too.' It makes Will laugh, but there's so much warmth in the sound. He pans the camera on the device to his companion ))

And this is Riley Lawan-Park.

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Yes~!

(( It's okay! He doesn't mind explaining. His actual people don't often have surnames, either. ))

Where we come from, it's common for one spouse to take the name of the other. Using both our family names to honor them is a newer trend. Historically, a woman would take her husband's family name at marriage. That's changing a lot, and combined names are definitely more common now.

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Hm...so when you introduce yourselves, your bond is made clear by your very names.

What a very charming tradition. [Cute...very cute...it's certainly different from his people, who made no such public signifiers of wedding vows. Not that they were secret - it just wasn't something that came up often.]

Historically, only women changed their name? For what reason? [they....also might not have patriarchy where he's from...]

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(( Will let out a little sigh. ))

Many societies where I come from place men above women, which, in my mind, is very silly. But, there were times when women were treated no better than property. So she had her father's name, then her husband's. It's something that just continued even when women gained more influence in Western Society. There's even a part in common wedding ceremonies where she's 'given away' by her father.