See here.
Indeed.
If I was Hardy and was marrying a Harr, I’d totally get our names hyphenated.
Even better would be if Hardy was a polygamist who married the two Harr sisters.
And more so if they were also friends with Lippy The Lion.
Some of those are laugh out loud funny - thanks! Traylor-Hooker indeed.
Seeing them in actual wedding announcements somehow made them that much funnier.
My wife and I don’t have names that combine to any known word - but they sound absolutely ludicrous together - when she was pregnant with our first child and people asked what we would do about the names (she uses her maiden name professionally) it always led to a silly discussion…
Consider this… if your last name is already Crapp, I think you’ve already hit rock-bottom, hyphenated or not.
Yikes.
A week or so ago I kept hearing promos for Bob Edwards’ show, in which a man was interviewed whose father edited a small-town newspaper in, I think, Wisconsin. The bite they played featured the intervewee saying that his dad’s paper covered small towns like Normal and Oblong, "… so he got to write headlines like ‘Oblong Woman Marries Normal Man.’ "
I laughed out loud every time I heard it. 
I am hysterical here! I have tears running down my face. My dog is worried about me. WordMan, can you share what your names are (or is that not advised on here)? Thanks for the laugh!
Jay Leno, in his weekly “Headlines” segment, features wedding announcements periodically. He always saves up a good batch so that the cumulative effect is even better. Some are just unbelievable – don’t people THINK about the effect their combined names will have in print?
Well, I suspect that the newspaper editors choose to put them in an order that is funny. If they had chosen “Harr-Hardy” or “Hooker-Traylor”, no one would have thought a thing.
I agree. Some of those list the woman’s name first and some the man’s. There’s no standard order used so it seems they are listed in the most humorous order.
A little south of where I grew up is a town by the name of Big Ugly, leading to headlines like “Big Ugly woman injured in accident.”
So, they’re not supposed to get married because their names coincidentally form some risible combination? Remember, wedding announcements are often labeled with “HERFAMILYNAME-HISFAMILYNAME” regardless of whether the couple is actually going to hyphenate.
That would be great if her name was O’Penn and his was Barre.
I just prefer not to do it - still posting Old School, I guess . Let’s just say that when we string them together, the word they most sound like is **Farfegnugen ** - that silly-ass word Volkswagen tried to market as cute and sporty…
Oh, and I always assumed that these are mainly for announcements and those most couples are not going with double-barrelled names…but they are still hilarious.
There’s a dual gravestone in Orlando that reads “Raper - Farless.”
I am getting married in August. We will not be hyphenating our last names, no one would ever be able to keep a straight face if we did.
I once had an hysterical time standing in a check out line with a very funny woman.
Some how during our ten minute wait, I found out her married name was Bologna.
Her maiden name was Malarkey.
Two totally awesome names. Fated to be together.
If my married last name was CRAPP, I would so give my children names that began with an O.
The National Lampoon used to print these. I remember Ball-You (Ms. You was Korean), Dickman-Cockman, Franks-Beers, Love-Organ, and Good-Loser.
Pizza-Topping, unfortunately, was not a wedding, but two obituaries run side by side.
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