Trashing Your Wedding Dress? New Bridal Trend a Photographer's Dream

The possibilities are endless and apparently therapeutic. Everyone knows how the stress of an expensive formal wedding can leave the bride revved up like a jet on a rocket ship. So what's a girl to do to release all that energy? This latest trend in bridal rituals is called "Trash the Dress". Instead of having her dress preserved like a relic for a hefty fee, or saving it for some future granddaughter who will most likely find it too dated to wear, today's brides are donning their frothy frocks to head out into the most unlikely environments imaginable.

In junk yards, forests, city streets, abandoned warehouses and amusement parks brides bent on doing the trash-your-dress thing are posing for eager photographers who are also expressing relief to be able to have the freedom to photograph their clients in creative new ways. It's not for everyone. It's definitely edgy, but some brides seem to be embracing this idea with the same gusto as they embrace the idea of a traditional wedding cake.

At first this trend seemed ridiculous, but the more I examined the trash-your-dress albums and read the comments on bridal blogs about this, the more I began to understand. I have to admit it has always given me a little rush to see brides running around loose outside the church with their wedding gowns hiked up to their thighs. Remember the Dixie Chick video? Destruction has always been one thread in the art theme. Breaking the glass after a wedding toast is an important part of Jewish wedding ceremonies. So why stop there?

The trash your dress fever isn't limited just to brides either. Women photographed in glamorous gowns set against unlikely, often desolate, or urban backgrounds is becoming more and more popular.
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I suppose this means we will soon see savvy women and bold photographers rushing down to their local Goodwill and Salvation Army thrift shops to recycle those racks of glad rags that no one ever seems to buy. Rhinestones against drain pipes? Tulle swishing through a field of milkweeds? A long train of silk sinking into a mountain stream. Yeah, you get the idea, and it is kind of fun isn't it?