You can now choose the names of the newlyweds.
A woman has gone viral for saying she and her fiancé plan to allow wedding guests to choose their married last names, and strangers online are loving the last name so much they’ve written songs about it.
Danielle Bonadona and Jacob Bartlebaugh are both obsessed with their last names and can’t decide what they want to be called when they get married.
Last month, Bonadonna revealed on TikTok that the couple was considering hyphenating their last names, and people loved the tongue-twisting nickname.
“People are going crazy over the idea that we could be named Bonadona-Bartlebaughs,” she said in a video she later shared, a surname that sounds more like gibberish than a legitimate name.
“I don’t even know if people can say it,” she noted in another video.
Unable to make the decision themselves, the unsure couple decided to let wedding guests vote on whether their names should be hyphenated at their February wedding.
“Because we both really like our last names,” she explains. “None of us wanted to give up our last names, so yeah, we just let our guests vote on it.”
The bride-to-be explained that she was unwilling to give up her last name, but could add her fiancé’s last name to hers.
“I’ve been called ‘Bonadonna’ my whole life, so that’s the name I’ve gone by, so everyone calls me ‘Bona’ or ‘Bonadonna,'” she explained in the video. “So it felt like changing my name in a really weird way, like I couldn’t imagine my name not having the official ‘Bonadona’ in it, but I’d love to include or add his name.”
She also noted that while some people worry about their future children, the couple cannot have children.
“It’s not a problem. You don’t have to worry about little Bonadonna-Butterballs running around the world,” she said.
Since posting the original video, she revealed she’s come to love the “fun and silly” hyphenated name and wants her loved ones to vote for it. Her fiancé also supported the combination – it was his idea.
But the couple aren’t the only ones who love the unique surname.
Strangers online showed their appreciation for the hyphen with a goofy song, a cool dance, and thousands of supportive comments — a Georgia animal shelter even named one after them cat.
So whether or not the couple decides, the internet seems to have voted – it’s a great name.
This is the Bonadonna-Batebo family.