Want to add a bit of pizzazz to your wedding photos and you don’t mind damaging your gown? If so, you might consider taking “trash the dress” photos. This is a new fad created by wedding photographers to create unique, once in a lifetime, photos. When a bride is willing to get her dress wet or dirty, she may be photographed wading in the ocean or a lake, sitting on a mountainside or on the beach, riding a motorcycle, or in many other unconventional situations or positions that can harm her dress.
I had a bride this summer who was photographed playing in the fountain at the Grove Plaza in downtown Boise while wearing her gown, though she was careful not to get too wet. Another photographer told me about shooting a bride who jumped into a swimming pool at a country club in her gown. The groom and several of the groomsmen joined her. (If they were wearing rented tuxes, they now own them.)
Some brides choose to take “trash the dress” photos a week or two after the wedding, when they no longer need to keep the gown clean for the reception.
Obviously, this fad isn’t for everyone. If a bride wants to keep her gown, then she wouldn’t be interested in this fad. However, if the gown is not that important, a bride may be willing to sacrifice it for more unique photos. To each her own style!
Glenna Tooman
Memory Makers Event Planning
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