After marriage: "My boss refuses to accept my new name"
Wayne Nell and Debbie Harding wanted to show the whole world, after their marriage, that they are a family? and, as it happens, with a common surname. Because Debbie brought a daughter into marriage, Wayne adopted the name of his two wives? a "no-brainer" for him, as he tells BBC. But the decision brought him some trouble ...
"That really hits me hard, son"
First, his father made the native South African a guilty conscience. "That really strikes me hard, son," he wrote to the newlyweds as a wedding salutation after hearing about the name change on Facebook.
It was even harder to hit Harding's boss. Harding works in a property management, where he is responsible for around 100 tenants. But what will they think when Mr. Nell suddenly becomes Wayne Harding? Exactly: That Harding has entered into a gay marriage. And that would of course bring the whole company in disrepute? White Harding's foresighted boss ...
