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Miss Lime previously blogged about Trash This Dress, but I didn’t take a look at it until reader Jen sent us a link. Trash this dress is a blog that features pictures of brides getting their wedding dresses dirty, wet, and trashed!
Check out this month’s featured photographer, Sol Tamargo. This bride looks like she’s having a blast, and her mermaid style dress is perfect for these pictures! Absolutely gorgeous!
Would you ever trash your dress?
i’ve seen this style of photography before. honestly, the shots are really breathtaking but i don’t know how i’d feel about trashing my wedding dress. it would take alot for me to decide to do that.
Gah! I could never do it. Those are some gorgeous photos and the bride sure does look happy but I just couldn’t bring myself to wreck a $1000 item of clothing!!
Haha Miss Lime - I have been to the “Trash The Dress” website before, via weddingbee so I was surprised to see this as a new feature.
I HAVE decided to trash my dress. Why? Fiance and I live in Ohio in an apartment with limited storage space, the wedding is in LA where my parents have even less storage space, and we are honeymooning in Hawaii, and not stopping through LA to pick up anything, not even gifts! So, the mechanics of getting the dress off after the wedding and back to Ohio and finding a place to store it was a bit overwhelming…
Then, my photographer (a friend from Ohio), was begging for us to go take some beach shots the afternoon of the wedding (reception ends at 3:30) and I said - why not? You only get to do it once, and quite frankly, I was going to donate it anyhow.
And yes - it could go to a better cause, like the Make a Wish foundation or something, but my fiance and I donate regularly via our church and other avenues, so I figured this once - we could be extremely decadent and wasteful.
Hell to the no. Hell to the no. I would cry hysetically the whole time if I did. So would my dad.
and to “h” and “Laura” - I have no emotional attachment to my dress. I can’t explain it, and maybe I will when it’s all over and done with, but to me, it’s just a white dress that I can only wear once. I know my future children won’t want to wear it, as the times change, and it’s not even a very pricey one (Maggie Sottero ~ $800) as there is no lace, embroidery, or pickups in the train. It’s just a very plain, white dress.
I can certainly see how if you spent a bunch on your dress and/or had it made for you, you’d want to keep it.
Lol at Miss Strawberry, and I echo her sentiments exactly.
I’m going to save my dress; I have four younger cousins (read: flower girls!) who will be getting married in about 20 years–not to mention my own future kids! I’m not naive enough to *assume* that any of them will want to wear it, but I’d like to think they’ll have the option. 
I am DEFINITELY doing this! In fact, I just made the appointment with my photographer to do it about a month after the wedding! I can’t wait.
no..i’d die..but i’d wear another white dress and do take the photos..they’re gorgeous and so much fun!!
sorry miss lime! i didn’t see that you already posted a link.
Like n, I don’t have sentimental attachment to my dress either…I love it, and think it’ll look great, but it’s very simple and I paid $150 for it (bridesmaids dress). I’d definitely consider trashing it, if the opportunity arises for some great pictures.
I’m not sure all of the water pictures really end up with a trashed dress though. I’d think a lot of them probably would wash up fairly decently. You’re gonna get more ‘trashed’ rolling around in the grass.
after all the money i (my mom) paid…no way jose!
it can be cleaned. the pictures are beautiful
Can it really be restored after it’s “trashed” like this?? Those shots are sooo beautiful though!
I have to wonder what sort of album these pictures are being put in… because I know I’d be uncomfortable showing any of the “sex on the beach”-type pictures to my in-laws!
I’m a wedding photographer and I have yet to come across a couple would would be willing to do this - most people aren’t so risky! But it would be some awesome shots. Usually the awesome ones ARE the riskier ones because it’s much more rare.
I just trashed my dress this past weekend with our photographer Leigh Miller! She’s posted a few pics and a slideshow on her blog. My dress is sandy and dirty but it’s nothing a good cleaning can’t fix. We had a blast and are so happy we had the opportunity to do this as it gave us a chance to get some really creative pictures that we didn’t have time for our on wedding day.
You can see the pix at:
http://www.leighmillerphotography.com/blog/
I want to hire a photographer for my honeymoon in Phuket, Thailand — would love to have shots like these, but not with my real gown!! I may buy an extra (*cheaper*) dress to take some beach-y shots in.
Has anyone hired a photographer in Phuket before??
i believe miss orchid is going there soon to take engagement pics! maybe you should give her a buzzzzz….
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