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Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

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Amber’s Trash The Dress Session

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In Monday’s blog, I talked about having an idea that I needed Amber to help me bring to life.  It was a Trash The Dress session. What in the world is a trash the dress session? Its where we literally take a dress and trash it. It can be several different levels. We can just get it “dirty” where we take it into a nature or urban setting where it may get a little dirty, but it can be easily washed and brought back to the same way it was before the shoot. We can go up a level to “distress” which may involve doing a bit more with it, such as climbing up trees and getting it wet. And the last and I must say the most fun level is the “destroy”.  Its where we do things to the dress that will always be permanent, from mud to tearing up the dress.

 

Being someone that did a trash the dress session, I will tell you that its SO much fun! And being that I also photographed a session, its probably more fun!  This gives a great opportunity for some amazing photographs.  Many brides love this idea lately.  Besides the fact that it allows for amazing photos, it also has meaning to them.  It represents the themselves and new husband that they don’t need the dress anymore, after all, they did say until death do they part.  I had  someone watch us trash this dress and she had her own theory as to what it means.  She felt it meant that women aren’t perfect, brides come across as perfect, and by trashing their dress the are showing they aren’t perfect, but rather human like all of us, sometimes getting a little dirty or making a mess.  I thought that meaning was pretty cool, so of course I had to share it.

 

So here is the first section, I would describe this as the “Dirty” level of trashing the dress:

 

This second section would be more along the line of the “Distress” level

And the last section here is our “Destroy” level. A little back story here is, Amber here is a painter. She is an amazing artist! I wanted to bring that to the shoot. In fact when I first thought of doing this Trash The Dress session I instantly wanted Amber to be my model, I wanted to destroy the dress with paint! This little prop is huge for her since it has so much meaning to her. This gave us great pictures and we had a blast trashing this dress!

This session is so amazing that I have one of these pictures hanging in my living room. This is one of my most favorite session ever. Thanks Amber!