When Sarah and I were getting married, we were having a discussion about last names, and, in talking to my dad, found that our last name, Gupta, was one that he sort of “picked” when coming to the US.

According to my uncle, they grew up as “Garg”.

It’s a long story… and I’m still not sure which parts of which story are true.

Anyway, with that information in hand, we figured if my dad could make up his last name, perhaps it made sense for us to change both of our last names from Hutfless and Gupta to something else.

We had a list of names, but the one we kept coming back to was Jalebi. We thought that would be very funny.

“Sarah Jalebi”

Good, no?

Obviously we didn’t do it then… but it’s not too late now: Jalebi Gupta?

Jalebi Gupta.

I like it.

(And for those of you who don’t know: Jalebi, picture above, is an indian sweet—deep-fried, syrup-soaked batter.)