Trash or Treasure

What will you do with your Wedding Dress after the big day?

This is a question more and more Photographers are asking Brides.I have to admit I've been asking more then not lately. In fact Trash the Dress sessions are quickly becoming my favorite type of photo shoot . In 2001 John Michael Cooper had been credited with starting the now fast growing trend . Some say it started much earlier in Europe as a sign of the Bride never needing the Dress again and destroying it.What ever the case it is here and I think will be for some time. Most Brides don't truly want to trash or destroy their dress, but many do want to have a fun, fresh, and usually a little sexy photo shoot with it .Some want the experience but don't want to chance ruining the "real" dress. I have had Brides wear dresses bought at the thrift store.I also have two dresses in the studio that have been trashed and washed waiting to be trashed again.Yes, I put Wedding dresses in the washing machine. Nobody said you had to trash a Wedding dress. How many of you Ladies out there have a brides maid gown or two you will never wear again? I know what you can do with it. Here is a link to look at one of the books created from one of these fabulous sessions http://share1.sendtoprint.net/bshare.php?hashid=bb5bef84f3d8111239ad There is a poll at the bottom of my blog , trash or treasure?