My girlfriend and I would like to get married (goddess willing, when it becomes legal) and we have an odd problem.

Both of our last names suck. I mean really suck. They got both of us teased as children. Additionally, her first name sounds terrible with my last (Stumpf), and her last has 12 letters (Braunshausen). We hate them both.

We're thinking about creating our own last name, that way our children would not be saddled with our crappy names (since we will probably start having kids before we can legally marry, it needs to be settled soon). But we both feel like that is a little silly, maybe we should just live with what we have? We're debating if we should come up with a combo of them or just make up our own damn name.

What do you think? What would you do?