Wedding Aftermath: Reality sets in - updating records, accounts etc.

Below is an excerpt from my post in my yahoogroup Weddings@Work. It basically summarizes what we women must deal with after the wedding. I wished there was some kind of primer on this, to guide us... coz admittedly, after Christmas, my December wedding, the family reunions and the New Year honeymoon, it was pretty hard to descend from Cloud 9 and get back to work -- let alone think and organize all the paperwork and updating I had to do.

So here's a summary of what happend in the aftermath of my wedding. May this serve as somewhat of a primer for other soon-to-be-married brides, and may you succeed in carrying this out in a more organized manner than I did. Teehee. Read along. :D

"FIRST: practice na ur married signatures. Kc in the weeks following ur wedding, you'd be updating your records and you will be giving new specimen signatures. So dapat tlga comfortable na kyo sa new sig nyo kc ung specimen signatures nyo ung basis ng mga bank transactions dba? kya dpat maganda na ung sig natin dun. narealize ko to wen I was signing 3 sets of sig cards sa bank. medyo alangan pa ko sa signature ko, and there was even a time na nagsign ako nung old sig ko, kya I asked for another sig card. Practice na tayo mga sis.

SECOND: pra sa mga nag-aask ng monetary gifts, uso na ngayon ang nagbibigay ng cheque. Problem dito is kng nakapangalan ba sa maiden or married names nyo (buti ung iba nakapangalan kay hubby, so ok lng). Ung iba, like samin, Jon and Eva Capistrano nakalagay, so napilitan kmi mag-open ng AND acct pra lng maipasok namin un -- mgr's check kc un. Wat I did for the cheques in my maiden name was I deposited them agad. Then we had to wait for the marriage contract so I can update my bank records before I can deposit those in my married name or ung mga may AND/OR na nkalagay.

THIRD: LTO License/valid Gov't ID with MARRIED NAME. for those who drive, better update your LTO agad, pra magkaron agad kayo ng VALID GOVERNMENT ISSUED ID. Eto ang pinakamadali kunin coz all you need is your marriage contract and your BIR 1904 ata un. The other banks kc want a valid ID na married name na, not just your marriage contract. Malaking ginhawa sakin to nung na-update ko license ko.

FOURTH: credit cards, bank accounts etc. We really have to take time for this. kya ako mtagal bago ko nakumpleto kc hindi ako maka leave ng sunod-sunod after the honeymoon. Best to update bank accounts after you got a valid government issued ID with your married name.

FIFTH: SSS, PHILHEALTH, BIR etc... wala tlga akong kaalam-alam dito sa docs na to, kya super nangapa ako dito. Better talk with your HR/ACCTNG sa ofc pra matulungan kyo with the requirements. side note, wala pa rin akong SSS ID na married, kc sira lahat ng capturing branches nila. GRRRR!

SIXTH: Passport. To-do ko pa rin to, 5 months nako married pro hindi ko pa to naasikaso. Altho ok lng nmn sana hintayin ung renewal, pro kc kelangan sa application ni hubby for immigrant ung married passport ko. haaays.

So eto, summarized na. Just to give you an idea. kc sabog tlga ako nung ginagawa ko ito, wala nmn kc nakapg advise saken ng mga ito, bgla nlng ako tatanungin ng tga acctg namin, "oh, asan na ung sa BIR mo? ok na ba ung Philhealth mo? dpt kc ikaw magpareciv nun eh..." ako prang... "whaa--?!" hahaha!!

hope this helps! lamko usually preps tlga ung focus dito, kya sometimes nattake for granted ung aftermath, kya nga sabog ung pag-asikaso ko dito kc galing christmas, tpos wedding, tpos honeymoon, tpos... waaa! wala nmn ngsbi sakin na ganito pla un hehehe! Icp ko sana pla may Primer din abt this! kya eto nlng contribution ko :D"

Ciao!