"Trash the Dress'

Okay, so this post is for some of you who have not heard of "Trash the Dress".

This actually means to that after your wedding, you take your beautiful wedding dress (hopefully your new groom will take part) and find something wild, crazy, and fun to do (while wearing your wedding dress of course) that will make others look at your photos and think you have lost your mind!

I have been fortunate enough to have met my next "Trash the Dress" bride. Her name is Erica and her wedding will be here in just a few short days! Am I excited? You bet I am!

How did the "Trash the Dress" even start? Here's what I found......

Trash the dress, also known as fearless bridal or rock the frock, is a style of photography that contrasts elegant clothing with an environment in which it is out of place.

Usually brides decide to have pictures taken on a beach, but other locations include city streets, rooftops, garbage dumps, fields, and abandoned buildings.

Some sources claim that the trend was originally started in 2001 by Las Vegas wedding photographer John Michael Cooper. However, the idea of destroying a wedding dress has been used in Hollywood symbolically since at least October 1998 when Meg Cummings of the show Sunset Beach ran into the ocean in her wedding dress after her wedding was badly interrupted. Since then the style has spread around the world and most notably in the UK, with photographers like Steve Gerrard and Mark Theisinger, amongst others, shoot their unique ideas of Trash the Dress.

A model often wears a ball gown, prom dress or wedding dress, and may effectively ruin the dress in the process by getting it wet, dirty or in extreme circumstances tearing or destroying the garment.

It may be done as an additional shoot after the wedding, almost as a declaration that the wedding is done and the dress will not be used again. It is seen as an alternative to storing the dress away, never to be seen again.

Interested in trashing your wedding dress at your wedding or have your dress tucked away in a closet somewhere that will never be worn again?

Lets Trash the Dress!! :D

Lori L Suggs