Because I'm using
Marie to honour my mother (it's her middle name) and
Elizabeth to honour my grandmother (it's her middle name but she uses it as her first). Plus,
Elizabeth is my middle name as well so I'm partial to it.
I've been told
Corinna or
Serena are both too close for a sibling to
Helena. We're using the He-LAY-na pronunciation. I'll admit that visually they are similar and the endings are the same but other than that they really aren't that close to me. It makes me sad, because
Helena has a lot of meaning to me and I don't think my hubbie will let
Serena go. Hmm. THis is hard.