my wedding dress is hanging in one of the closets somewhere in our house. i’ve worn it once (and maybe tried it on a couple times over the years, but let’s not talk about THAT right now).

as much as i love to glance at it once every two-and-a-half years, i would much more prefer to have sweet photos of me, wearing the dress, doing something rad. unfortunately, i had never heard of trash the dress when i got married almost 7 years ago. but you can bet i’m telling every bride that comes my way!

because, really, who doesn’t want pictures like this???:

and you should know that becca, the gorgeous girl in these photos, is a complete outdoorsy sort of gal. she hunts. she camps. she backpacks. she four-wheels. so the location of her shoot was perfect for who she is. (and the location? her backyard. yeah. this is her backyard. told you she was outdoorsy.)

maybe you’re thinking, “yeah, but i’m not outdoorsy. i’m much more of a coffee-shop, chillin’ on my laptop, listening to my i-pod sort of chick. this whole laying in the field stuff is definitely NOT me.”

to that i say: let’s go find your favorite coffee shop and do your trash the dress there! (they won’t mind – i asked.) we’ll have you in your duds, wearing your i-pod while drinking a skinny milky way (my drink of choice!). and that would be a very cool picture.

p.s. this is definitely my favorite shot from the day… i love the sky and the tilty angle and the lighting and the view and the fact that beautiful becca convinced me to do a couple shots in front of the hay bales (or is it straw??? i can never tell.) before we called it quits:

so, soon-to-be-brides, think about trashing your dress. or if you’ve been married for a few months/years and you’re thinking how much you WISH you had photos in your dress doing rad things… get that baby out of the closet and give me a call!

I WANT TO KNOW: where do YOU think would be a cool location to trash the dress??!?