Trash the Dress

This is a new trend that has started to become more popular.  The idea behind it is to literally trash your dress. *Gasp*

A lot of brides feel that they never will wear the dress again so why suffocate it in a plastic bag in a closet?  Many also think their daughters won’t wear their wedding dress in twenty or thirty years, so now there is a fun alternative.  There are a lot of ways to trash your dress, paint, fire, water….

Recently, we had a bride at the Hall of Springs who shared her trash the dress session with us.  Remember Desiree?  Well, she teamed up with her awesome photographer, Sawicki Studios, and got some really great shots.   This is something photographer Chris Sawicki brings up with all his potential brides in their consultation and he sees it becoming very popular.  Check out this first series, I am loving this location, it is in the Sawicki Studio in Amsterdam, and the paint! Phenomenal!! I caught up with Desiree and got some great insight into this shoot.  “My favorite part, for me,” she says “was probably the paint. the first splatter of paint on my dress was so strange because of how much my wedding day meant to me and now to be wearing my dress covered in paint, but it turned out great.”  It certainly did!

We asked Desiree what made her want to do a trash the dress session and she said ” Why preserve your dress? For some people that works, but not for me. I wanted to do something different and have spectacular photos to remember it by.”  Well, she definitely  succeeded, she has some amazing photos!

If you thought paint and water were crazy, wait until you see this.  This next series was inspired both by Chris Sawicki and Desiree, it is, in a word, hot!

When asked if she would do this again if she could, Desiree was adamant. ” If I had to do it all over again, I would in a heartbeat and probably wouldn’t change a thing.  It turned out exactly how I wanted.”

Thanks to Desiree and Sawicki Studios for sharing this with us, here’s some behind the scenes video!!

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