Trash The Dress- The new post-wedding trend

[Fenway]

This web site was featured on the local news today. http://trashthedress.com/ What do you think? Would you do this? Why or why not?

[tlew12778]

Honestly, by the time the wedding was over, my dress was worse than some of those. And it all came out in the dry cleaning anyway (well I think so... I never went over it with a fine tooth comb).

I don't really get why a normal person would do this. I mean, they are very artistic, beautiful photos, but they also look like they are shot for an ad campaign as opposed to hang in the house.

[ManteoChik]

I think its awesome, but I'm also a photographer...lol.

Would I do it?? I don't know. I haven't been married yet so its hard to say. Part of me thinks that I would really want to save my dress - but reality says...what would I do with it? The odds of having a daughter later in life that would actually want to wear my dress is pretty slim seeing how styles change so much.

I actually have a dress that I've got hanging in a closet in my house so I can find someone that would be willing to wear it for a THD session with me. I'd *love* to add that to my portfolio.

[jase]

I would totally do it. My dress has been hanging in my closet uncleaned (I thought I might have it shortened and redone as a non-wedding dress) for the past two years as I decide what to do with it. I definitely want DH in the pictures with me though. Otherwise, I would feel like I was in an ad.

For me and DH, it suits our personalities and our outdoorsy lifestyle to do this kind of thing. It would definitely reflect us for me to put on my wedding dress and go traipsing through the woods or wading through the ocean.

And from another perspective, we really didn't splurge for the type of photographer shooting the type of photography that I love most. I would love to get the chance to really get some really artistic shots.

I told DH about the NY Times article about this and I think we're planning on saving up and doing it for our five year anniversary in some exotic location.

ManteoChik, I've seen some of your photographs in other threads. If we lived closer to NC, I'd totally have you do ours!

[miaclear]

I love it! I would totally do it. I don't think I could have commited to it right after the wedding but being married for almost 3 years now my dress has just been hanging in the closet gathering dust. I don't think I would go so far as to set it on fire or lay in a swamp but some of the water shots were great.

[jesvet]

OMG...the one with the bride in the trunk? Mildly disturbing.

[Fenway]

[cut]Would I do it?? I don't know. I haven't been married yet so its hard to say. Part of me thinks that I would really want to save my dress - but reality says...what would I do with it? The odds of having a daughter later in life that would actually want to wear my dress is pretty slim seeing how styles change so much

I'm already married, but that's how I feel. Plus, I've gained 30+ pounds since the wedding so I'd hardly feel sexy in a TTD session. I'm considering using that as incentive to get to my pre-wedding weight, then a photo shoot would be a reward for myself. :)

I'd love to do a shoot on my ATV in the woods, or at the beach on the Kayak. So much fun!

[jennylou]

Eh, my dress wouldn't fit. I'm about 60 pounds less these days.

And, it's still sitting in the same garbage bag that I brought it home from the hotel in. :o

[MLA]

That strikes me as really strange. I've saved my dress, though I can understand not wanting to do that. There are plenty of things that you can do w/a wedding dress, though. No need to trash it.

[Weddings by]

I don't like wasting things.

Our family has had two wedding dresses worn by others, and I wore my friend's dress [not to be cheap; I loved her (expensive) dress!]. My mom's prom dress has been worn at least twice by others. If we had trashed them, there would have been at least three girls who would never have had the opportunity to wear a beautiful dress (because they didn't have the money).

[Aimee]

Some of the shots are really great, but it's not something I'd ever do.

What I don't get is how this shows "commitment to your husband". If someone gets remarried, how likely is it that they'd wear the same dress?

[Weddings by]

What I don't get is how this shows "commitment to your husband". If someone gets remarried, how likely is it that they'd wear the same dress?

:D That's exactly what I thought.

[Fenway]

I just thought I's drop off this quote from the TTD site.
We’ve been receiving several comments on how wasteful this trend is, but again, the intent is to CREATE, not DESTROY. Weddings should be a fun memorable experience. A “trash” session doesn’t have to be in a bayou, in the mud, or involve fire. It can be somewhere out of the normal element. Somewhere that may get a spot or two on the dress. Become liberated, have fun, enjoy the wedding experience!

Many brides have suggested donating your dress to www.bridesagainstbreastcancer.com, which is a great option as well.

[kindermom]

With the exception that I love my dress, I would totally do it!

Jenny - Congrats on the dress no longer fitting!

[cari2]

While I can appreciate the concept of creating something, I would never do this. I still hold out hope that one of my dd's may want to wear the dress someday:)

[DaNiGaToR]

I still have a few months to go before I even wear mine for the first time, but I could really see myself doing this (which is honestly a bit surprising!). I'd also want to have FI in the pics too!

Courtney, let me know if you're planning a trip back to FL sometime in the near future ;)

[dreamgirly]

Ok - help me out on this. The bride that's on fire -- is that photoshopped? If it's not then OMG girl stop, drop, and ROLL!!! How did her hair not burn?

[jennylou]

Ok - help me out on this. The bride that's on fire -- is that photoshopped? If it's not then OMG girl stop, drop, and ROLL!!! How did her hair not burn?

LOL, I was thinking the same thing!

[jajacobsen]

I could never see myself doing this. But I am sentimetal about attire. I save certain, special outfits taht I wil likely never wear again. I don't save a lot of things, but my wedding dress and a few things, I do save for teh meories.

[Belle]

I find it a bit disturbing, too. Especially the shoveling groom w/the bride in the trunk- that was definitely just an artsy phfartsy type shot. Someone has come along with an idea and pretty soon it will be a *must do* in the post-wedding tradition. Not for me, but to each his/her own, I guess.

[Lindsan]

The pictures are absolutely beautiful but I see it as a lame excuse for ex brides to be made up and photographed in their dresses again. And like someone said, where would you put a picture of your feet sticking out of the boot of a car and your DH holding a shovel? Or perhaps it would be a gift for the MIL? ;)

I didn't even wash my dress after our wedding and it's still in the plastic bag I brought it home in so I can't say the dress means the world to me but I still don't think I'd do this. It just seems odd to me.

[LRL]

Hmmm. I think those photos are great, but they really do look like something out of a magazine which you would not display in your home... I don't think that those gowns look completely ruined either though. There was a bride on the WC who had a post-wedding photo shoot done in NO when a photographer came to town for a canceled wedding (she couldn't refund the airline tickets). Her dress was filthy, and after sending it to the cleaners it came out like new!

Looks like fun, but I wouldn't do it. My dress wouldn't fit at all either as I am smaller than I was when I got married.

[ManteoChik]

Courtney, let me know if you're planning a trip back to FL sometime in the near future ;)

Funny enough, I was actually thinking about planning a trip back in November sometime. BUT, I'm sure I'll be back even after that as well. How soon are ya'll leaving on your honeymoon after the wedding?

[Toonces]

Exremely cool photos, but I'd never do that to my Maggie. :)

[BerBer]

I love this idea and always wanted to have pictures taken at my parents farm but it didn't work out that way for the day...

Now I know what we are doing for our 5 year anniversary!

[kk junebug]

some of those pictures are cool, but i don't know man!

my dress got the usual wear & tear from the wedding, but it still hangs in a closet at my parents house almost 2 yrs later...and yet i still like to take a peek at it now and then when i'm over there.

i don't know how i'd feel to know that i could never look at it again! i'd be sad i think!

[ShamrockBride]

I loved the idea so much I've already contacted a photographer. Ok, so not one I'd have to pay, but I think it would be great for both of us, help his portfolio, get me and DH some really sweet pictures, Now I just have to get dh to agree :)

[andy's di]

Now I'm upset I sold my dress! I would have loved to do something like this - DH and I always wanted a shot of him holding me in knee deep surf :D

[diam124]

Some of those pictures are very pretty, but I love my dress too much to get it dirty!

We just celebrated our 4 year anniversary and DH and I have a deal that if I can still fit into my gown at our 25th anniversary, I can wear it to dinner. :p (sadly I think the day after my wedding I wouldn't have been able to fit in my gown!)

[Little Angel '77]

They are not new. It's just different than what people are use to and remember. It's a session set after the wedding. Remember the bridal portraits back in the 80s that people use to do BEFORE the wedding... These are now AFTER the weddin. You get really unique and creative with the shots.
You don't have to "TRASH" the dress. If you want something funky and different, it's pretty fun.

we went to a junk yard with the bride. It was really cool and I have awesome images *here*
Linnk removed If you would like to see images from a trash the dress session PM me.

[May27JnJ]

I love it! If I still fit into my dress I'd so do it!!!

[greenbunny]

Okay, I'm a little disturbed by the woman ON FIRE. :eek:

Also, I hope the woman in the bog didn't have any open wounds. I can recall what that sort of ecosystem smells like from hiking trips, and I doubt it's Aquafina she's rolling around in.

The one that's totally underwater looks cool, except for the floating corpse effect.

[diam124]

Also, I hope the woman in the bog didn't have any open wounds. I can recall what that sort of ecosystem smells like from hiking trips, and I doubt it's Aquafina she's rolling around in.


Are you talking about the lady in the green swampy water? That one totally grossed me out.

[diam124]

The one implying the bride was dead in the trunk was also rather odd.:eek:

[greenbunny]

Yeah, diam, that one.

[May27JnJ]

I've missed all of these!!

[Little Angel '77]

john michael cooper (altf) has a great creative mind. He' did the bride in the trunk session. That's john for you :)

I know how he did the one on fire, but I won't tell. :)

[Esq.]

We did a photo session after our wedding (bc our wedding day pics turned out horribly) and I draped myself across things without even thinking about whether I was trashing the dress. I got some pretty pictures for it, too. So, I guess my answer is that I have already done it, but my dress was not destroyed, and is upstairs in my closet without a stain on it (It did have to be cleaned after the pictures though).

[carrie9142]

Ew! I am not worried about getting my dress dirty, but I am worried about immersing myself in swamps!! Pass :)

I would do it if it was in a location that was meaningful to me, not just some bog somewhere for artsy pics. I would happily wade in the ocean, or hike a trail, or go fishing in my dress though.

[DaNiGaToR]

Courtney - We are leaving on Monday, Nov. 19th but I'd love to get together with you some other time if it wouldn't work out. I'm not sure about *totally* trashing it, more like some fun beach or park kind of things. Let me know what you're thinking and we'll see if we can get it to work!

[amorey]

I'm so not into the zombie corpse brides washing up on shore. I just can't see me hanging a undead-homicide-victim-found-in-a-swamp shot of myself up in the living room.

[Larissa]

john michael cooper (altf) has a great creative mind. He' did the bride in the trunk session. That's john for you :)

I know how he did the one on fire, but I won't tell. :)

He already posted a very rough version of how on the 13th of June:

“How did you pull that off?”

chuck, the bride was not in the dress at the time of the burn.. she wasnt a stunt woman or anything like that, though her grooms a firefighter.. easiest way to explain it: she’s in the dress, the dress is on fire, just not at the same time…. btw the dress burned completely within 10 secs. dont catch fire while wearing a dress.. to fill the form of the dress for the burn we used a blow up doll we bought from an adult store just before the shot, saving it from its intended destiny and sacrificing it as a virgin… so to speak.. there is a video of what we did on simplephoto.tv just click on most viewed and look for “altf lights a bride on fire”

[~queen~]

Oooh, I SOO want to do this! My dress is technically un-wearable as the skirt where the bustle was has significant holes in it. It cannot be worn with a train any longer, so I couldn't expect anyone else to wear it. And it was a Reem!

Hmmm. My photographer would probably jump all over this. But I need to diet first to get into my gown. What a great incentive!

[boilermaker]

I think the pics are mostly awesome (yes, a few are creepy). But I would toally be up for this. I'm not sentimental at all about material items so it wouldn't bother me if my dress was ruined. Though I'm not sure I could get into the symbolism of burning it. Seems like I'd do that if I got divorced.

[chefker]

Interesting photos & concept...I don't think I could do this to my dress though - I love it too much! Although my dress doesn't even fit me anymore (too big, yay!), so it's not like I could even wear it again without major alterations being done.

[snowzilla]

Me too, chefker. Maybe I could wear it as a giant sleeve. :p

Isn't the one where the bride is floating on her back in the water supposed to emulate a famous painting - I wish I could remember what it's called....

[chefker]

Isn't the one where the bride is floating on her back in the water supposed to emulate a famous painting - I wish I could remember what it's called....

I think you're right - and I can't remember which one! Something to do with drowning Ophelia, IIRC. *off to Google*

ETA: Found it. (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Ophelia_john_everett_millais.JPG/300px-Ophelia_john_everett_millais.JPG)

[amorey]

From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophelia_(painting)):


There is a willow grows aslant a brook,
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream;
There with fantastic garlands did she come,
Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples,
That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,
But our cold maids do dead men’s fingers call them:
There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds
Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke,
When down her weedy trophies and herself
Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide,
And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up;
Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes,
As one incapable of her own distress,
Or like a creature native and indu’d
Unto that element; but long it could not be
Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,
Pull’d the poor wretch from her melodious lay
To muddy death.

She's still dead! :p I still don't get why you'd want to have photos of yourself as a dead bride.

[jeepgirl]

The bride that's on fire -- is that photoshopped? If it's not then OMG girl stop, drop, and ROLL!!!

OMG. ROFL! Love the comment. ...can't... stop... laughing!

[Little Angel '77]

I think you're right - and I can't remember which one! Something to do with drowning Ophelia, IIRC. *off to Google*

ETA: Found it. (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Ophelia_john_everett_millais.JPG/300px-Ophelia_john_everett_millais.JPG)


The name of the photo is called "Ophelia" Inspiration from Hamlet.
Hamlets love. She committed suicide.

That bride on fire is photoshopped. It's two images super imposed over each other.

JMC (Altf) is one hell of an amazing photographer.

[Fenway]

Those of you that do a TTD session, will you come back and post pics???

I'd love to see them!

RE: corps bride- I have a friend who specializes in "death photography," (models, not real dead people) so I can totally appreciate the creativity in the shot, but, it isn't for everyone. :) If you are interested in seeing his stuff, PM me.

[Little Angel '77]

There is another site out there too called www.trashyourdress.com that's a spin off from the other one.
You can see other images there

Google Trash the dress, there is tons of stuff out there.

[carrie9142]

RE: corps bride- I have a friend who specializes in "death photography," (models, not real dead people)

Girl, I am glad you clarified b/c I was pretty alarmed for a second!

[Natasha]

I'll be doing a TTD session in October. I will not being using my actual wedding dress. I have a Mary's Bridal dress I got off of eBay for $200 a few years ago. I have tried to sell it several times, with no luck. So, I'll be wearing it for my TTD, and if it is salvageable after that, I'll get it cleaned, and donate it.

I think the pictures are so fun, and I'd love to have pictures of Bert and I playing around in the ocean all dressed up!

[Fenway]

Girl, I am glad you clarified b/c I was pretty alarmed for a second!

LOL! Well, there is a big arts/photography scene around here, and it seem like you can find artists specializing in some pretty crazy stuff. I went to a photography exhibit at the local university a few years back and there was a student photog that specialized in slaughterhouse photography. :eek:

[AHammer]

If I knew my photographer was awesome and would make it worth it, I'd do it so fast. My dress has been sitting in the closet for 2 years doing nothing. I'd rather have more great pictures of it :)

[Hello Kitty]

I did it yesterday. My original dress was a two piece, and I opted to make a separate, new skirt to go with it, for various reasons. It was really freeing to get some pics in nontraditional settings, and I really think I felt prettier than I did on my wedding day. :)

However, it was hard to actually trash it - for both me and the photographer. We ended up getting it wet, but after a soaking and washing with oxyclean and woolite, and a day drying in the sun, it looks almost new. :o

[Foley42]

But I need to diet first to get into my gown. What a great incentive!
HA, ditto! blah *feeling like a huge whale*

[Allegra]

There was a bride on the WC who had a post-wedding photo shoot done in NO when a photographer came to town for a canceled wedding (she couldn't refund the airline tickets). Her dress was filthy, and after sending it to the cleaners it came out like new!



He, he he! That was ME and another a photographer in NO!

Anyway, I think what the point of a "trash the dress" session is to get some fun, funky artistic images without being hyper concerned about preserving the pristing condition of a wedding dress.

As a wedding photographer, I can't tell you how many times I have super ahhh, "careful" MOB or MOH that hold the bride's dress up all day long!! ...its your wedding day! Enjoy the dress! let it fall and trail the way it was meant to!! sorry - rant over!

Anyway, by having these sessions after the wedding, most brides by that point are more willing to be creative which, as a creative person, most photographers enjoy. Yes, many of the images are more fashion or commercially oriented - I think that's part of the point! And yes, many of those brides simply enjoy getting dressed back up again in their pricey (for the most part) outfits and playing model. There are photographers like John Cooper that create less "soft" images and more disturbing in your face kind of stuff. Its all good - brides typically pick photographers with whose style they mesh.

leave you with another few images from the NO session...

Allegra

REASON FOR EDITING: sorry folks - for copyright reasons I have to pull the images since the copyright notice contains my company name and thats against CC rules. Anyone who would like to view them is welcome to PM me and I can send you the direct JPG links. :)

[LRL]

Hehe. Allegra I didn't realize it was you! Those photos are just beautiful! Now that I would go for! ;)

[rileyandfredsmom]

I don't know, the pics are very artsy but seem more of a way for a 'regular' woman to feel like a model for the day instead of about the wedding/marriage. A very high-toned glamour shots, if you will.

[Ericka_Jarett]

I will see if I can post pics from the session we do this weekend.

[Hello Kitty]

Here are the pics.

http://cityview.wordpress.com/about/trash-the-dress/

ttd63007

[maplekitty]

where is the picture of the bride on fire or the bride in the trunk?? I'm not seeing those ones??


anywho...seeing as how my dress is still hanging i teh closet with sand and dirt stains from two years ago, I think maybe I would do this. But alas, the dress don't fit! Perhaps this is a new fad, the "Fit back into your dress so you can trash it" diet ;P

[Ericka_Jarett]

Hello Kitty,

Great photos and your dress was beautiful. Love the "Bean" picture. Picked awesome locations

The woman doing the shoot has been married I think just year or so. My hubby is just as excited I think as much as the woman is to do the shoot. :)

[wendalah]

Interesting, but:

1) I can't fathom what I'd do with photos of myself in my wedding dress that are not wedding photos.

2) My dress was expensive. I did not preserve it or even clean it--it's hanging on a hanger at my parents' house--and I'm not overly sentimental about it. But I can't bring myself to ruin it given the cost.

[Ericka_Jarett]

We did the TTD session and the lady actually only got married in May of this year. Her dress was simple, but very pretty as she had gotten married at the NJ Shore.

Her dress really didn't get that dirty (just a few black marks on the back, but not more than she would have gotten at her wedding (the hem had dirt on it before we started as did a few spots on the back) and she is actually going to clean it at home and than send it to a charity that makes baby clothes for infant loss couples. The pics came out great and she loved the preview she got to see of them and now hubby has some to use as well. It was a long day today though in the 94 degree weather, we started a little after 9 and ended around 2pm. Hit 3 places: started at the firehouse they volunteer from, then to a local train museum and finally the park I had my maternity taken last year (we went to 2 different sides of the park). Next time will be only 1 location instead of 3, so hopefully the time will be less.


http://www.uglyduck.com/proof/ttd-desi/bin/images/small/DSC_4785.jpg

http://www.uglyduck.com/proof/ttd-desi/bin/images/small/DSC_4849.jpg

http://www.uglyduck.com/proof/ttd-desi/bin/images/small/DSC_4963.jpg

http://www.uglyduck.com/proof/ttd-desi/bin/images/small/DSC_5067.jpg

http://www.uglyduck.com/proof/ttd-desi/bin/images/small/DSC_5288.jpg

[Gatsby]

Yikes! So, I'm here to out myself as the photographer of Hello Kitty's photos :p I was wondering out loud in my journal why my blog views had increased so dramatically, and one of my JBs pointed out the post in this thread. Anyway, I would LOVE to hear what you guys think of the pics!

This was my first ever TTD session, so it was quite the learning experience, and any feedback I can get is a huge help. Luckily, I had a great subject ;)

Ericka, you guys did a great job :D I esp. love the one of her on the firetruck (3rd pic posted) - great color; and the last one. They look like they were good sports :) Great locations, too!

[Ericka_Jarett]

Gatsby - thanks for the compliments. She was a fun person to photograph and willing to do just about anything really.

Your pics are great of Hello Kitty's, hubby agrees and you have CHicago so lots of great places to choose from there.

[Esq.]

Here are some that I guess would qualify as a mild version of TTD. They were taken in 2002, so keep that in mind. :)

The color on this one is screwed up. I am not Miss Piggy pink, but this picture looks that way on the computer. The real print doesn't at all.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1315/779715050_757fe201ba.jpg?v=0

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1317/779715104_c210da9116.jpg?v=0

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1388/779715262_c84b6546ab.jpg?v=0

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/38/111385187_da4e53ad9e.jpg?v=0

[miaclear]

Gatsby...I love the water shots, especially the one with the reflection. To me those say "TTD" most. The others are really nice as well but I would think of them more like regular bridal portraits.

I personally really like the idea of TTD but if I were to do it I'd really want a session that expressed that. So many of the recent pictures seem more like normal bridal portraits. But maybe that's because I got married outdoors and so all my pictures are taken in the woods or by the river. Now if I were to get in the river or climb a tree....I'd consider that TTD.

[Standrea]

OMG! I love this!

Courtney, If you ever come up to NY, let me know ;)!

[Ericka_Jarett]

mia - we were going to do a shots of her at the firehouse with the firehose and her hubby wanted to soak her in some of them, but we were so tired after being out 6 hours, we called it a day. There is another one he will do at hte beach most likely, wants to get water shots there for sure.

[Hello Kitty]

Mia - yep, you hit it on the head exactly. It was very hard for both of us to get in the 'trashing' spirit. It's really a lot easier said than done. And I wasn't afraid of anything really, but it was just inexplicably hard to do. We both agreed that they were more like non-traditional bridal portraits. :)

[Standrea]

NOw I'm really thinking about it. My little sister has a friend going to college in NYC to be a photographer...maybe she'd like a test subject with my dress...

[MrsBeckyLP]

I think I would do it if we could find something to do that represents us. (Like if we could go play football out on Lambeau Field wearing our wedding attire!)

I like the ones of the woman working on a car. If I were a mechanic ;), something like that would be neat. Hmmm ... maybe I could go play golf in my wedding dress!

But seriously, I think I'd like to have my future daughter's Baptismal gown and First Communion dress (providing I'm blessed enough to have a daughter) made from the satin on the skirt of my wedding dress, so I wouldn't want to trash it.

[Ericka_Jarett]

future - just an FYI - that's actually a nice thing about trash the dress, you don't necessarily ruin your dress, the bride we did photos of was going to clean it and then send it to be made into outfits for deceased babies.

Most of the time, no dress gets so ruined it needs to be trashed, it can usually be cleaned (either professionally or at home) and be used for other things.

[miaclear]

Like if we could go play football out on Lambeau Field wearing our wedding attire!

As much as I'm NOT a Packer fan this sounds like a fun idea. I also love the mechanic photos. Not sure what I would do to capture a hobby or interest. Sit on the couch watching TV in my dress....surf the internet in my dress....drive thru McDonalds in my dress. Man I need to get a hobby ;)

So I was emailing with my wedding photographer who's also a friend. He was actually on the scene when the bride in the trunk photos were shot. That photographer is a friend of his. I thought that was pretty cool. He offered to shoot my TTD shots when I decide to. Would probably not go as far as that photo.

[jeepgirl]

Have to admit, I love the TTD photos that have been linked/listed here! I'm getting married in late September. Tempting...

;)

~ j.

[ManteoChik]

I'm doing a Trash The Dress session this afternoon. One of my coworkers (also a photographer) is going to wear a dress and I will photograph. After that I'll probably have it cleaned and then we'll switch and I'll wear the dress while she does the photography.

I'll come back and post pics after I'm done.

[ruby]

Manteo-Any pics to show us yet?

[ManteoChik]

Manteo-Any pics to show us yet?

Hi! Yes, I do. There are some on my online portfolio. If anyone would like to see them feel free to PM me and I'll give you the link. (It has my full name in it as well as contact info, and I'm not sure I want to post it out in the open, but I'd be happy to PM it ya'll.)

[Gatsby]

I'd love to see them!! Send me the link, please :)

[ManteoChik]

I'd love to see them!! Send me the link, please :)

You've got a PM!

[Gatsby]

You've got a PM!

I didn't get the PM :(

[ManteoChik]

Just thought I'd drop off a few for those that didn't PM me.

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[sue-bert]

I think, if you don't want to keep your dress, then it's much nicer to donate your dress to a worthy cause (even though the whole trashing thing might be fun).

Many brides from our synagogue donate their dresses to a bridal gemach (it's a Hebrew word for a charity/loan organization). That way brides who cannot afford to buy a dress for their wedding day have something pretty to wear.

[Leilynne]

I think, if you don't want to keep your dress, then it's much nicer to donate your dress to a worthy cause (even though the whole trashing thing might be fun).

Many brides from our synagogue donate their dresses to a bridal gemach (it's a Hebrew word for a charity/loan organization). That way brides who cannot afford to buy a dress for their wedding day have something pretty to wear.
"Trashing" is a relative term, most of the brides on the TTD website report that their dresses were fine and ready to donate after a good drycleaning. As long as you don't take sissors or fire to it your dress will most likely be fine. Also most charities that focus on wedding gown donation also take heavily stained or damaged gowns because the lace, beading, and fabric can be used to make flower girl dresses or repair other bridal gowns. So even after a TTD session your dress is still donateable.

[Ericka_Jarett]

"Trashing" is a relative term, most of the brides on the TTD website report that their dresses were fine and ready to donate after a good drycleaning. As long as you don't take sissors or fire to it your dress will most likely be fine. Also most charities that focus on wedding gown donation also take heavily stained or damaged gowns because the lace, beading, and fabric can be used to make flower girl dresses or repair other bridal gowns. So even after a TTD session your dress is still donateable.

Totally TRUE!!!!!!! The woman we did a session for took her dress home, washed it and sent it to a charity that makes dresses for babies that pass away.

[honeygirl]

I just read an interesting article about John Michael Cooper (the guy who they named TTD after) in Rangefinder (magazine). He didn't set out to destroy wedding dresses, he just wanted to take interesting photos. His company is alt.f.photography (stands for alternative *insert swear word here* photography).

Here is his photography website: http://www.altf.com/

The photo of the groom holding a shovel with the brides legs sticking out of the truck has an interesting side story. The shovel used in the shoot has it's own website: www.thetravelingshovel.com Funny creative people! :)

[WonderWoman]

I'm dying to see what you guys are looking at, but everytime I go to the site, there is nothing. No gallery or pictures that I can see. It sounds like something totally up my alley, but I can't see anything!

[honeygirl]

Looks like they're having some "host/traffic" issues. They say to look at: www.dontboxusin.com and www.trashthedress.wordpress.com until they can get it running fully again.

[jbenny75]

The photo of the groom holding a shovel with the brides legs sticking out of the truck has an interesting side story. The shovel used in the shoot has it's own website: www.thetravelingshovel.com Funny creative people!


I went to high school with Joel, the male half of the couple that started The Traveling Shovel. He has always been a really funny, cool person. I'm happy to see him doing so well. Their blog has some beautiful photos if anyone wants to check it out:

The Wiebners (http://www.thewiebners.com/blog.cfm)