Now one of the ways I
choose to spend my precious time here in Chapel Hill, North Carolina is by
serving fancy cocktails to whomever may come through our doors in a little
martini bar on the corner of East Franklin Street. Some days however, I am
greeted by rather interesting patrons such as the couple who came in on Saturday
night to watch the NASCAR race and gave me a rather interesting insight and an
even more interesting conversation topic. We started talking about the
phenomena and trend of “Trashing the Dress” as the cars raced around the track
and stopped ever so often to have their oil changed. Pardon the irony of the
connection in our subject matter, but I started thinking about this trend and
actually took a liking the idea of girls leaving behind the tale as old as time tradition of saving
their dress for the generations to come and adopting a new and modern idea…
TRASH THE DRESS
Reasons
to Trash Your Dress:
1) “I
want to save my dress for the generations to come… but is anyone actually going
to wear it?”
OK ladies… how many of you actually wore your mother’s or grandmother’s dress in
your wedding? Let’s be honest here! Every little girl dreams of the day where
she gets to go into that bridal boutique and try on a thousand beautiful white
dresses until she finds “the one”! So, why not trash the dress if no one else is going to wear it?
2) “Well,
I may need to wear it again… but that could be awkward?”
Again
ladies… let’s be honest with ourselves, how many of your (and let’s hope not)
next husbands would like for you to wear the same wedding dress again? I don’t think so ma’am! The lovely
gentleman I mentioned from the martini bar did mention a funny concept of a
reversible dress- “White on the inside and pink on the inside, that way you can
use it twice in case you get married again.” What a wise fellow! But you should
trash that dress and if you decide to
marry again, then you get to go shopping again- every girl’s dream!
Speaking
of FUN!
Check out these fun ideas for Trashing
YOUR Dress…
Country Girl… Mud it up! Hop
up on the tractor, dirty up that dress, and make not only great photographs,
but memories as well.
Mermaid
at Heart? Jump in the ocean, play in the sand, or let the
waves crash on your dress for the perfectly-timed
trash
the dress photograph!
Let’s
Get Dirty. Those NASCAR themed oil covered shoots make for a
sexy sensual and even incredibly beautiful trash
the dress shoot. Shot in black in white or even close ups in color can make
for an amazing experience and even better images to keep forever.
The
Desperate Housewife… food fight! How cute would it be to have
a trash the dress shoot of you and
your newlywed husband in your brand new kitchen with flour tossed on each
other’s faces, blueberry pie smashed onto your once pristine white gown,
transitioning into a beautiful new life together (not to mention the fun of a
food fight with each other!)
Now,
if you want to keep it traditional, if you’ve always dreamed of a $15,000 Vera
Wang, this isn’t for you! (But hey, you could always invest a small bit in one
of those handy dandy used dresses and play around with a trash the dress shoot just for fun!).
XOXO,
Audrey
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