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The just married admin checklist

The wedding is done, and now comes the paperwork. This checklist is the practical admin that follows a marriage, from starting a name change to merging two households into one, so the boring-but-important jobs actually get finished rather than drifting for months.

It is not a wedding planning list. It picks up after the day, when you are combining lives, accounts and routines. Read it here for free, then open it as a guided pack in OneHaus so you can split the tasks between you and tick them off together.

Your post-wedding admin list

  • Combine your household calendar and shared lists

    Bring both of your routines into one place.

  • Start your name change on key documents

    Begin with your marriage certificate and government ID.

  • Update your name and address with bank, employer and insurer
  • Merge or cancel duplicate subscriptions

    Two streaming plans, two cloud storage plans, and so on.

  • Update your passport and photo ID
  • Update beneficiaries and emergency contacts

    Pensions, life cover and next of kin.

  • Review or combine your insurance policies

    Home, auto and health are often cheaper together.

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Get the Just Married pack in OneHaus

Open the Just Married pack in OneHaus to turn the post-wedding admin into a shared checklist, so the name changes, account updates and household merge get split between you and actually get done.

  • Split the admin between both of you
  • Tick off name changes and account updates together
  • Combine your calendars and shared lists in one place
  • Reminders so nothing drifts for months
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If you are changing your name, start with the source documents. Your marriage certificate and government ID come first, because most other updates, like your bank, employer, insurer and passport, ask to see the new name before they will change their records. Working in that order saves you redoing things.

Merging a household is the other half of the job. Combining your calendars and shared lists, cancelling duplicate subscriptions, and reviewing whether your insurance is cheaper as a couple are easy to put off and genuinely worth doing. Updating beneficiaries and emergency contacts is the one most people forget, so it is on the list too.

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FAQ

Just Married checklist FAQ

If you are changing your name, you will update your government ID, passport, bank, employer and insurer. Couples also tend to combine their household calendar and shared lists, cancel duplicate subscriptions, review their insurance policies, and update beneficiaries and emergency contacts. This checklist covers the practical post-wedding admin, not the wedding planning.

Start with your marriage certificate and government-issued ID, since most organisations want to see the new name on an official document before they will update their records. From there, work through your passport, bank, employer and insurer. The checklist is ordered to make this straightforward.

No. Changing your name is a personal choice, and plenty of people keep their own. If you do not change it, you can skip the name-change tasks and focus on the household admin, like combining calendars and lists, merging subscriptions and reviewing insurance.

Yes. In OneHaus the Just Married pack is shared, so you can divide the admin between you, see who is doing what, and tick things off as you go. It is the easiest way to make sure the post-wedding paperwork does not all land on one person.

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