You Don't Have to Trash Your Dress!

 

Even though I still want to do a super fun Trash the Dress session (where we just completely destroy your wedding dress for the sake of amazing pictures) with someone, you don't have to trash your dress to wear it again.  You can be an Anniversary Bride!!  I have recently done two sessions where the wedding dress was donned and photos were taken as an anniversary gift for the hubby (and parents, too!).  I think this is just such a fun idea.  First, you get to feel good about yourself that you can still fit into your dress (and if you can't I can make it look like you do!), and secondly, if there were any shots you missed at your wedding, we can stage anything you want!  There's also a bit of a supermodel aspect to the whole thing.  How often do you get to walk around in probably the most formal dress you will ever wear with paparazzi (me) following you?  Total diva moment.

 

I have just never really "gotten" any of the great ideas for things to do with your wedding dress after the wedding, except pictures (because those are awesome, clearly).  About ten years ago, everyone had their preserved in the acid free cardboard-ish box where the bodice showed throw a clear cellophane window in the front, remember?  Do people still do this?  This never made sense to me because what are you really going to do with your dress in a cardboard box.  Why do you want the bodice to show through a cellophane window?  It's confusing to me.  I, on the other hand, made the wise preservation choice of doing nothing with my dress.  It's still hanging in a closet in my mother's house, about three feet from where I took it off after the wedding.  While, perhaps, not the best preservation idea, I doubt that I will ever have a progeny that will beg to wear it.  Let's be honest, it won't be in style in 20+ years and if a child did want to wear it I would hope she would be amazing enough to take the original fabric and transform the dress into something amazing of her own.  What did you do with your dress?  Where did you decide to make her final resting place?
 

 

One last note about trashing the dress: I understand about the sentimental value of your wedding dress and the need to not destroy it (OK, I don't really understand that but I respect your right to not destroy your dress:), but I have seen several brides who have done a fun trash the dress session (in a pool, lake, river, rolling around in paint, etc.), not in their original dress, but in one they picked up for cheap at a consignment shop, but still loved.  Let's face it...didn't we all love a million dresses when trying to choose "the one"?  What do we think about this idea?  I LOVE it!!