Trash The Dress – Part 1

About a month ago I met Laura from Little White Book wedding planners for a coffee.  We hit it off and were coming up with lots of different creative ideas of how we could work together.  When I left the meeting I was buzzing with ideas and couldn’t wait to make them happen. The thing we both wanted to do was to do a “Trash the Dress” shoot.  These are becoming more popular in the wedding industry and a great way for couples to have a bit of fun after their wedding doing something a little different in their wedding outfits.  Trash the Dress shoots can range from “Rock the Dress” which is where the bride and groom have the chance to wear their outfits again and get a little more creative to “Trash the Dress” which is exactly what is says on the tin…the dress gets trashed but lots of fun is had in the process.  Photos can be taken in the sea, a lake, climbing a wall, running through mud or even cutting the dress up!

Laura and I planned a day which would consist of two shoots, a “Rock and Trash the Dress” shoot and then a “Paint the Dress” shoot.  This part is about our “Rock/Trash” shoot which we did in Rivelin Woods.  Laura volunteered to model for this and was brilliant on a sunny but freezing day.  We did a mix of shots in the river and a few “sex and city” inspired shots as she was walking through the woods.  The shoot ended up with Laura jumping up and down in the river, getting water & mud in her boots.  We even had a few passers by helping out by throughing wet leaves at Laura.  One old man got really involved and I almost had to step in to get him to stop! There are a few “behind the scenes” photos which I’ll blog about later.

Laura created her dress from an old dress she had.  The bouquets are from Petalis and the head pieces/hats are by Imogen’s Imagination.

Taking a stroll

Rocking that dress

Sex & The City inspired...

Fun & Sassy

Bouquet by Petalis and Hat by Imogen's Imagination

Trashing the dress

Doing what we all want to do!

Mud, mud glorious mud!