Maiden names on name tags

What is the consensus on how to put the maiden names on name tags? Does the married name go in parenthesis or the maiden name? What about students going by new first names? What about guests\husbands? Is everyone a "guest"?

some examples. (Shaw is my married name)

Beth Wade [Shaw]
Beth Shaw (Wade)
Ted Shaw husband of Beth Wade [Shaw]
Ted Shaw guest of Beth Shaw (Wade)

(My friend Jake now goes by "Jay")
Jake "Jay" Klein
Jay (Jake) Klein

My name tag at my last reunion was:

Kathy Gardner Aceves without any parethesis. I'm not sure how the guests were done, since the reunion company took care of all of this

[quote="Beth Shaw"]What is the consensus on how to put the maiden names on name tags? Does the married name go in parenthesis or the maiden name? What about students going by new first names? What about guests\husbands? Is everyone a "guest"?

some examples. (Shaw is my married name)

Beth Wade [Shaw]
Beth Shaw (Wade)
Ted Shaw husband of Beth Wade [Shaw]
Ted Shaw guest of Beth Shaw (Wade)

Beth,

We have had an active class site for many years and the ladies have always been listed with their married name in Brackets. The spouse (at reunions) has always been listed by their name...nothing else. We haven't had any issues about folks going by a different name but I would say put name in high school and then the name they go by in quotes.

Gini

WE JUST HAD OUR 40TH REUNION ABOUT A WEEK AGO AND WE USE THE SCHOOL BOOKS PICTURE AND PUT THEIR NAME UNDER THE PICTURE. WE DID NOT USE MAIDEN NAME.

We just did our 40th, our 6th reunion, and we usually follow the same format: The first name in large letters next to the yearbook photo, followed by maiden name in parens then married name. For spouses, we also go with large first name, then last name followed by the spouses name in parens, without repeating the married name...so for your husband it would be Ted in large letters, followed by
Shaw (Beth Wade)...your tag would be Beth in large letters, followed by (Wade) Shaw. It helps to have the spouse's mate name listed like that so that people can easily identify that they are a spouse, and can start a conversation with them about: "oh, so you married Beth--she's a great person" etc. It's hard enough being a spouse at a reunion, so this helps others to break the ice with them.

Hope this helps--it's the most standard way of doing it, I think.

I'm also partial to name tag holders that are not attached with glue that can harm clothing. You should arrange the tags in alpha order, and attach spouses tags to each other...we do that in maiden name order--just easier that way.

You should also put up a sign at the sign-in desk that reads: Please re-cycle your name tags--most people will just throw out the holders anyway, so you might as well reuse them.

Have a geat reunion!
Jim

Jim (and everyone else),
Thank you so much for your help. We'll be going with Jim's suggestion.

I'll also use different colors to represent the guests (rather than "Guest of) and put the classmate they go with in parens.

BETH (Wade) Shaw
TED Shaw (Beth Wade)
JAY (Jake) Klein

We are about to have our 50th reunion, and were wondering just how we should do maiden names and married names. Thanks for all the ideas -- they were very helpful.

Linda