Double barrelling without hyphen?

[ginandgarlands]

Less of an AIBU but more of a question I guess…

I’m getting married this year and I think I want to take my husband’s surname in part, but I definitely want to keep mine in some capacity too.

Not keen on double barrelling with a hyphen when he is not going to do this, but would quite like to add his name as a second surname. So for example I would become Sarah Smith Jones (not my real name, obviously).

I know this is legal but I’m just wondering if anyone has done this and had any issues, or if I’m missing something by wanting to do it this way?

I hyphenated my two surnames to make sure people got it right. Otherwise one always got dropped as everyone assumed it was my middle name.

I was very undecided but decided to keep my maiden name, and don't regret it. Kids have husband's name.
In the end I felt changing my surname a step too far. It's nice to have something that's mine.

Thank you so much for all your responses - they’ve been so helpful! From the range I have I actually think it will work very well for me for how I wish to use my future names. I’m very cheered by this. Thanks so much all!

(Also was very interesting to hear the history of it/how it’s done in other countries - I actually was recommended to do it this way by an American friend so it does seem more standard over there.)