The big box sits, taking up room in a already full closet, crammed toward the back, covered in the offspring of dust bunnies gone by. It cost a fortune to buy and another fortune to launder and you wore it once…for about 12 hours. You’ll never wear it again, especially after the 5 -ahem–okay, 15 lbs of baby weight you have yet to lose –even though the “baby” is 5 now.

The dress I wanted for my wedding day was $8,000. My mom flatly refused, steering me toward the traditional Asian route of renting a dress for the big day. I hated that dress and would gladly “trash” it given the chance.

My friend Michelle (milaPhotography ) calls her trash the dress sessions, “One More Time.” Since not all “trash the dress” sessions actually TRASH your wedding dress. It just gets exposed to things that normally a wedding dress doesn’t get exposed to on a wedding day — like salt water and sand, paint and cake…

So what are you going to do with your wedding dress? Breed another colony of dust bunnies or pull it out, put it on and do something FUN with it.

When Annette contacted me to do a Trash the Dress session, she told me she wanted to trash her dress two days after her wedding at the beach. IN JANUARY. I told her it might be cold, but as long as she didn’t care, seeing as she was the one getting in the water, I was up for it. Lucky for her, it was 75 degrees that day. (Hello, California!)

So, with perfect weather and perfect sunset, we frolicked in the waves and amused the beach goers who normally don’t get to see a bride and groom swimming fully clothed in wedding attire.

CONTACT ME to schedule your trash the dress session! 951.264.1710