Friday, 2 August 2013

Would you wreck your wedding gown for a photoshoot? Trash The Dress trend ...


  • Trashing trend started in Las Vegas 10 years ago

  • Brides ruin their dresses with water, paint, mud and even fire

  • Symbolises devotion to new husband as dress can never be worn again

  • Arran Tomlinson is first UK photographer to capture the romantic ritual

  • Rachael Snape, 27, from Blackburn trashed her dress at Tockholes



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Deni Kirkova




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12:21, 2 August 2013




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UPDATED:


18:07, 2 August 2013



The latest trend in bridal photography, Trash The Dress, has officially arrived in Britain.


Deliberately ruining a wedding dress soon after a couple’s big day is a romantic ritual meant to symbolise commitment, as the wrecked gown can never be worn again, and it’s big business for photographers in the U.S.


Now photographer Arran Tomlinson is pioneering the idea – also known as ‘fearless bridal’ or ‘rock the frock’ – here in the UK.


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Rachael Snape is photographed for a Trash the Dress shoot celebrating her wedding day as her gown is ruined


Rachael Snape is photographed for a Trash the Dress shoot celebrating her wedding day as her gown is ruined


He says the aim is to give brides ‘stunning’ and ‘unusual’ pictures to contrast with those taken on their wedding day.


The genre, which originates from Las Vegas, contrasts elegant clothing with an unusual environment such as scruffy woods, on a beach, on rooftops, rubbish dumps, fields, and abandoned buildings.



Dresses can be burned and torn to shreds or just muddied up – giving the wearer the option to clean and keep or bin it.


Rachael Snape, 27, from Blackburn, Lancashire, chose to trash her dress at Roddlesworth Reservoir, Tockholes after her marriage to council worker Paul three weeks ago.


After the traditional bride and groom pictures are shot, the bride deliberately wrecks her gown


After the traditional bride and groom pictures are shot, the bride deliberately wrecks her gown


‘The dress got dirty but it’s nothing a good dry cleaner couldn’t fix,’ said Tomlinson.


‘Brides do it as they’ve had the wedding and they just want to do something different. 


‘They want something else to remember.’


The Trash The Dress idea is rapidly gaining fans around the world as women arrange for photographers to capture their wedding gowns being destroyed in order to create some very personal art.


The genre contrasts elegant clothing with an unusual environment such as in the woods


The genre contrasts elegant clothing with an unusual environment such as in the woods


The aim of the shoot is to give brides stunning and unusual pictures taken on their wedding day


The aim of the shoot is to give brides stunning and unusual pictures taken on their wedding day


Photographer Arran Tomlinson says brides want something else to remember these days


Photographer Arran Tomlinson says brides want something else to remember these days


The results often resemble the type of photographs seen in glossy fashion magazines.


Arran said: ‘It’s a style of photography originally from the States and it’s only just catching on here now.


‘From a photographer’s point of view I thought it was something that made amazing pictures.


‘I went on social media and asked if anyone wanted to trash their dress, and Rachael stepped forward.


‘As soon as I had done the shoot, I had another one booked.


‘The next bride is even more extreme – she wants paint thrown at her!’ 






Video courtesy of Andy Snipe


Beaches, rooftops, garbage dumps, fields, and abandoned buildings are also popular scene choices


Beaches, rooftops, garbage dumps, fields, and abandoned buildings are also popular scene choices



Rachael, from Blackburn, Lancashire, chose to trash her dress at Roddlesworth Reservoir, Tockholes


Rachael, from Blackburn, Lancashire, chose to trash her dress at Roddlesworth Reservoir, Tockholes



Other trash the dress shoots… where the frock is ruined forever


 


Powerful: A rising number of brides are choosing to destroy their wedding dresses in the name of art, a ritual known as Trashing The Dress. Photographer John Michael Cooper snapped the above example


Powerful: A rising number of brides are choosing to destroy their wedding dresses in the name of art, a ritual known as Trashing The Dress. Photographer John Michael Cooper snapped the above example



Deep: A bride appears unconscious in her own shoot as her gown floats in a ghostly manner through the water


Deep: A bride appears unconscious in her own shoot as her gown floats in a ghostly manner through the water



Paint bombs: It seems that grooms are happy to participate in the trend


Paint bombs: It seems that grooms are happy to participate in the trend







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Wedding dresses are expensive, at least give it away to someone less fortunate. Seems like the people who trash them are the same people who will be on benefits in no time. they obviously don’t know the value of money and how to spend it wisely.



ElleWestlake

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Gallifrey,

02/8/2013 18:59


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1. How idiotic. 2. Why not keep it? You very well might need it again for the next nups!



TeeNtheWildlife

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Chicago USA,

02/8/2013 18:58


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I love art, I love fashion, I love hair and I love weddings. However, this isn’t art, its just bloody stupid! If you don’t what to keep the dress, give it away to someone who would use it. Granted, I do like the dirty dress, and like she says, it’s nothing a good dry cleaner couldn’t get out, but to set the damn thing on fire, ridiculous!



Style_Commander

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Malaga,

02/8/2013 18:52


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One of these pictures looks like a corpse



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Chester,

02/8/2013 18:46


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This has been happening in the UK for years – this photographer certainly did not introduce it in to the UK. That is nonsense!



Sussexlady

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Chichester,

02/8/2013 18:43


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Such a ridiculous and wasteful idea! Why not give the dress to someone who could use it again!? One bride here in Canada actually died following this stupid trend after she was swept off in the current and her dress was too waterlogged for her to swim to safety.



Eloise

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Van City, Canada,

02/8/2013 18:43


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Symbolises devotion to her new husband as the dress can not be worn again??? Surely of the marriage failed and you re-married you wouldn’t ever wear the same dress anyway?!?!?!



Riley01

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Portsmouth,

02/8/2013 18:41


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Very few people where I’m from do this. Seems very foolish and wasteful to spend thousands on a dress to destroy it for pictures. I’m under no illusions that my future child will want to wear it one day, but I may want to take it out and fondly recall the day I married my husband.



Me123.haha

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USA,

02/8/2013 18:41


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Fools and their money (or their wedding dress) are soon parted….. Or, you can fool some of the people all of the time. A photographer’s gimmick – that the dress-buyer pays for !!!



Ernie

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Tring City, United Kingdom,

02/8/2013 18:40


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Does seem a bit bizzare…..Not for everyone?

Every bride does have a right to their own memories on this special day.

I just hope noone regrets them, seeing as its a pretty irreverdible memory, LoL



Patty

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Just A Place In Gool Ol Texas,

02/8/2013 18:38


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