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The Dress
Well, this is a new one for me and I’m wondering if you have heard about it?! The craze I’m talking about is to trash the dress! Picture this, you plan your big day, buy your perfect dress and no doubt look stunning and then in an act of post wedding rebellion your new mission is to trash your dress. Whether it be through flame, mud, water – the choice is yours.
Trash The Dress – Who Started it?
It sounds utterly crazy doesn’t it? Well, trashing your wedding dress is actually quite a normal thing to do in the photography world. It was started in 2001 by a gent called John Michael Cooper from Las Vegas an you can see that the trashing is captured on camera through a glam photo shoot. I love the varying backgrounds; lakes, graffiti walls, train tracks, whatever takes your trashing fancy.
So ladies, the idea is that you get to have two days of being the centre of attention; the first being, looking beautiful and marrying the man of your dreams and the second is all about doing whatever the hell you want, to your dress; like trash your wedding dress! Although it is an alternative choice for your dress, it sure does save on storage space!
Trash The Dress Photos
Images by: Top – Sakura Photography, Bottom – McLellan Style
Images by: Top – Evan Bishop Photography, Bottom – Chugach Peak Photography
Love this photo by N Koester, very dreamy…
Trash The Dress Photos by Nkoester & John Michael Cooper
Images by: Top – NKoester Photography, Bottom: John Michael Cooper
Images by: Top right & bottom – John Michael Cooper
Lurrvv this one, elegant but off the wall and very edgy. It’s amazing what a graffiti backdrop can do!
Would you trash your dress? Mine is sitting in a huge box in the loft and I don’t expect for one minute that my little girl will want to wear it 25 years down the line, so maybe it’s time for me to unleash my rebellious side and do something wild and crazy and set myself on fire in a pale pink wedding dress!! (Or maybe I will just swim in the sea instead, slightly less dangerous!)
Our recent post about Alpine images also features Becca in a lake, she chose to ‘trash the dress’ and still looked beautiful, sneak a peak.
Kate x
… it’s a pretty expensive way of getting rid of a dress!
tell me about it, I was amazed at it’s popularity, you get some stunning pics though!
LOVE it Love it LoVe iT….
What a Rebel post…. This is what makes this site so ‘bloody awesome’ Great posts and pictures that push the boundary of ‘expectations and beleifs’
Awesome post Kate!
Wow, thank you, I really appreciate you kind words.
As a wedding photographer, I have heard of this concept and know of fellow photographers who offer a Trash the Dress sitting after the wedding ie bride wading in the sea. I think it’s a good idea to do a photo shoot after the big day where the bride isn’t as worried about getting her dress dirty so you can get some arty shots like the dreamy one above by N Koester, but I wouldn’t want to trash the dress completely.
Personally, I put my wedding dress on every year on our anniversary and have only missed one year when our son was about 3 weeks old! So I’ve worn my dress about five times since my wedding day.
I love the idea of putting my dress on every year, I might have to try that on my next anniversary!
The notion of trashing the dress to me is the symbolic gesture of something coming to an end and the hope of never having to wear it again. I think this is a very powerful statement about the marriage and relationship.
If a bride actually chooses to ‘trash’ the dress or create a ritual symbolising the change, this is also a respectful way of confirming the marriage. I think it’s a very romantic gesture in its entirety.