Trash the dress is a fantastic and innovative way to create more beautiful images with your wedding attire.
Are you looking to Trash the Dress? Then you have come to the right place.
Andy Warhol has always been one of my key inspirations ““The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.”
Common “Rock the Frock” Objections…
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“What a disgusting waste of a dress!”
say many old fashioned ladies.. Well I have news for you.. In over 300 weddings that I have photographed or filmed, I have only ever had ONE bride wear her mothers dress.. She completely chopped it up and redesigned it beautifully, so had her mother used the dress in a Trash the Dress session, this would not have been an issue.Most wedding dresses end up sitting in a box in a closet, taking up valuable real estate space in your home. They turn yellow, even unsold dresses in Bridal Stores turn yellow after a few months if the stock isn’t moved. The dresses also often involve tulle and lace, which are both magnets for moths. Long story short, if you’ve ever gotten your mothers wedding gown out of the closet, I’m sure you found a bit of a disappointment. I remember wanting to use my mothers veil from 1965… and 40 years later not much of it came out of the closet.. it was ridden with moth holes and completely eaten.
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“Why would I trash an expensive dress?”
As you can see, I’ve shot a lot of Trash the Dress photoshoots, and I’ve actually only ever had one bride trash her actual wedding dress. The bride in question had lost around 100lb (50kg) by her 1 year wedding anniversary, and was really unhappy with her wedding day pictures (that were not taken by me). She found me online while looking for a trash the dress photographer, and booked me for their one year anniversary. They had their toddler son squirt liquid paint on them from squeezy bottles.Another Bride Tara (Pictured below underwater) had purchased 3 wedding gowns as she kept changing her mind. The first one she bought, ended up being her least favorite, and that was used for the trash the dress session the day after the wedding. Another bride looked at $50 sale gowns on racks for her Trash the Dress gown, and another had an unfortunate Chinese eBay experience while wedding gown shopping, and she used that dress to trash.
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TTD Atlanta
TTD Atlanta
Brave Brides Swim in their Wedding Gowns
This phenomenon has been popular since approximately 2007, although it apparently originated in the late 90s. I remember my friend Chris who (like me) was a photographer and videographer, had a Trash shoot at an old abandoned prison with a bride with a live snake. I thought it sounded amazing, therefore when another photographer named Steve invited me to come along to one of his Trash the Dress shoots as a videographer I said yes.
Funnily enough I’ve still got the video (I think it’s on my youtube) however a LOT has changed in my video style since 2008.
Brides do not need to destroy their real gowns.
Women have so many option to choose from. Between goodwill thrifting, eBay $100 Chinese wedding gowns, or second hand ball gowns. The most popular styles of TTD Photography are frequently either paint or water. Originally the first photographer who really made TTD shoots famous photographed the bride in the wedding gown with her dress burning.. Considering that I think I’d prefer to stick to water and paint. Besides this, it’s also common for the bride and groom to go to some dirty locations and roll around in mud.
With that in mind, it seems that my couples have always opted for the water or paint approaches. My portfolio contains plenty more TTD images to add to this page. I’ve had brides zip-line in paint, and fight with silly string. My favorite images are usually the ones around water.
Honestly I wish that every wedding would add a post wedding day Trash the Dress shoot to their package.
TTD Atlanta
TTD Atlanta
with Atlanta Photographer Sky Simone
Rock the Frock Atlanta
Many times these post wedding day artistic portrait shoots create a more unique image. Additionally this can be a more unique expression of your love, being equally unique. How fantastic to look back upon these images in 20, or even 40 years time and know that you dared to be different.
For the bride who wants to stand out from the crowd,
and express herself in a truly unique way, this is for you. For the fearless bride who likes to wow people, this is for you. For the bride who loves to swim, or be covered in paint, this is for you. Any other ideas you have that I haven’t already demonstrated? Mud, or being buried in sand, are options that I’m willing to explore as your photographer. I hope that moving forward this style of shoot gains more momentum. It’s such an amazing way to create captivating images.
I swami agree that the best photos and videos in a wedding dress are under water, firstly, it is very beautiful, because it develops and moves under water, not as in air and in a dry state, but because behaves under water, it can only be repeated in space at any station, and secondly, this is the safest action for a dress, since after bathing in clear and transparent water, the dress will dry out and remain as it was clean and not spoiled, which means that it can be done repeatedly without fear of destroying such beauty as a wedding dress, especially if it has handmade embroidery, as was usually the case in dresses of the 90s of the 20th century, so bathing in a dress, as I said higher, the best, safest and most beautiful action, especially after leaving the water and after you have stood for a while on land and waited for the dress to drain a little, re-enter the water by lifting the skirt of the dress so that it does not touch the water, and after entering the water approx erno to the level of the knees, throw the skirt on top, after which the skirt will smoothly fall into the water itself, and after the skirt has fallen into the water, continue to slowly enter the water in the process of further entering the water, the skirt of the dress will be so beautifully inflated gradually turning into a large one, and sometimes into a huge ball after the bride goes deeper and deeper into the water, and the deeper she goes into the water, the more the skirt swells when the bride enters the water up to her shoulders, the inflated skirt will float around her and disappear under water only after that , as the bride begins to swim, and if this dress also has large puffy sleeves, say, a puff sleeve or a large flashlight, then the sleeves will also begin to inflate, turning into balls, and in this case they can easily work as armbands for those who are not can stay in water and generally swim, that is, keep the bride on the surface, as well as an inflated skirt, if the bride can collect the hem of this skirt under water, hold the skirt under water in the assembled state under water does not pose letting the inflated skirt deflate!