hi

is anyone here taking those underwater 'trash the dress' photo? i think it is a good idea. i have seen other couples taking those photos and they are gorgeous?

Hi Seabee and jess25,

Trash the dress doesn't have to involve actually trashing your dress!  But obviously it can if you want.  In essence Trash the Dress photography involves your photographer photographing you and your groom-to-be in your wedding outfits but not on your wedding day/not necessarily at your wedding venue.
The advantages with it are;

(1) No time pressure (because no guests are waiting for you) means you CAN get to that stunning location you simply won't have time for on the wedding day itself.  And you are more relaxed because of this, so the pictures look better.

(2) Your hair and makeup will be fresh and you will be looking at your absolute best.

(3) If you do your Trash the dress after your wedding day you don't have to worry so much about getting your wedding dress dirty.  (Photos in water, eg rolling around in the surf, are popular trends in Trash the Dress, but the options are as unlimited as your and your photographer's imagination)

Wikipedia sums up "traditional" Trash the Dress photography well. But keep in mind that, just like your wedding day, Trash the Dress photography should be about what you want and what suits you.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trash_the_dress.

According to Wikipedia;

"Trash the dress...is a style of wedding photography that contrasts elegant clothing with an environment in which it is out of place..."Trash the dress" is the art of destruction or deconstruction of a brides wedding dress to create a new "artwork" that the bride would be proud to display on their wall". (really??)

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

...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 interr

You can actually join a group on Facebook where they are looking for models to trash the dress or drown the gown. They will go schedule a photoshoot for free. I just can't put the web link here due to new membership.

I'm thinking of buying a cheap version of my dress online and doing a trash the dress photo shoot on our Raro honeymoon...you can get my dress for $160usd on one of the cheap sites! and as lilybeth says, no one will notice the details on it...just couldnt bring myself to trash the real thing, too expensive!!

MrsBnow wrote on Aug 21^st, 2012, 3:50pm:


You can add me on facebook

Search "JHUN DELA ROSA".

and i let you know from there. thanks.

Just saw this news article, and thought it was good to be reminded to make sure you keep safe while doing a TTD, don't go too deep in water, be wary of things floating off you (such as a veil) and the damage to YOU that could be done...

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/7556097/Bride-drowns-posing-for-photos-in...

ottid wrote on Aug 27^th, 2012, 3:15pm:


yeah thats tragic.

where?