Decided to catch up with family in the middle of the state in a magnificent inland gold mining city. Settled on a Monday/Tuesday as it suits my schedule & is easier on the hip-pocket nerve. There's my mother's brother & his wife in one family, their daughter & her family in another location plus another cousin & her husband & teenage kids.
I've not seen Jacqui & Jamie for about 5 years, and Uncle Mike for 2 years. The other cousin I met up with a few months ago.
Cousin Jacqui didn't have to change her maiden name when she married Jamie, his parents had separated quite early in his life & his father was no real father-figure to him. So he asked Uncle Mike if he had any objections to him (Jamie) taking on Jacqui's surname when they married.
No objection recorded, quite the reverse.