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Planning my trash the dress shoot!!

I have pulled the trigger so to speak, and contacted the photographer who did our wedding pics about doing a fall trash the dress by/in the river near us!

I am so excited to re-style my dress for this!

Here is it (with me and DH) on the wedding day:

I am thinking of going a bit darker, with a black bolero like this:

And this hair and makeup:

What do you guys think? 

KT- its where you literally 'trash' or ruin your wedding dress! lots of people get pics in the ocean or river.... or they do things like choclate syrup and candy smashed all over the dress.... etc. its a creative way to put your dress to rest lol

@KTseamans: It is a post-wedding photo shoot where you do things in your dress that you would never do pre-wedding, roll around in dirt, wade in a river, etc etc ... there are some pretty extreme ones like this one. Or more tame (google trash the dress in images and you can see a ton of inspiration).

After I do the shoot I will get the dress cleaned and see how she still looks ... likely I will preserve it!!

@babebabe06: Thanks! My photog has actually not shot a trash the dress before, but she has done one herself, and says that her dress was totally cleanable after it was done - honestly, I was not very careful with it through the reception, and it is fairly dirty anyways - so I don't think there is any harm in it!

@Zinzerena: My dress is already potentially ruined from red wine, road dirt, grass stains etc etc ... so really is a dunk in the river, and some more grass stains the end of the world? Doubtful. Even if it isn't cleanable, it wouldn't have been before the trash the dress ... Plus, I am not ready to let it go yet, and getting another go-round in it, and really having fun doing the pics is appealing to some people.

And my dress was well over $3000 - so if I want to get my mileage out of it, enjoy it one more time, and get to get some artistic, unique pictures out of the deal, I think that is far less wasteful then having it sit in a box in my closet, or sell it for 1/3 - 1/2 of what I paid. To me, not really enjoying your dress, and not getting as much out of it as possible is wasteful!

@baldor1: It will still be a while, sometime in September I think - but I will definitely share pics! I think we could do something awesome, we are going to include my 140 lb newfoundland dog, and my hubby is going to be in on some in his non-designer suit!