Q: Like for instance I am a man named Kyle Smith and I marry Jenny Jones-Gostowski, she chooses to take both names can she be Jenny Jones-Gostowski-Smith? And has this ever happened?
A: US Answer: When you get married you have to actually do paperwork to have your name changed - it doesn't just magically or automatically happen upon filing that the marriage happened. When you have your name changed you really do have control over what it gets changed to. I have know people to have a tri-hypenated name, people that chose to drop their middle name and use the hyphenated maiden name as a middle name and the husband's as a last, people that dropped the maiden and used only the husband's, people that never changed the last name at all, and some that dropped the last portion of the hyphenated maiden name and replaced it with the husband's (so Jones-Gostowski became Jones-Smith).