rock the dress?

elizabethjane25 · June 2012

hey ladies! i haven't been on these blogs since our weddings (i went into knot overload and had to majorly detox afterwards). now i'm trying to think of what to do with my dress, and i stumbled upon a "rock the dress" shoot. it's like trash the dress, except you don't trash it so much as just have a fun photoshoot doing things you maybe wouldn't have done on your wedding day due to lack of time or whatever. so i'm wondering if any of you have done it/known someone who has or have an opinion on it. i want to do something fun with my dress before i sell it or box it up!

athlete010688 · June 2012

I didn't do any pictures with my dress after the fact. It would have been fun to do though! I had my dress cleaned and preserved, and it's now sitting in a box in my closet of my room at my parent's house.

ky29 · June 2012

I was going to do that this past spring, but decided to pass. Even though it wasn't too much of an expense, I thought our money was better off going somewhere else. I think it would be a lot of fun though!!! Depending on what you had in mind, I love the pictures in water/steams. I came across this blog and would've liked to do something like that.

edit: for some reason the link above isn't working.

http://www.jennifersootsphotography.com/trash-the-dress/abby-aaron-trash-the-dress-brownsburg-in

ajpufky · June 2012

My dress is also already all cleaned and in a box at my parents house however our photographer has a trash the dress session that I just loved...more like you were talking about just fun pictures that probably won't do a ton of damage to your dress. I think it's a really great idea especially if you didn't get a lot of photos of just you or you and H together.

http://www.cdraghiphoto.com/category/trash-the-dress -- edit: stupid computer/TN won't let the link work...so you'll have to copy/paste

PattyandAlan · June 2012

I had my dress cleaned and preserved right after the wedding. I had bought a kit from DB for $99 when I bought my dress. Wouldn't mind wearing it again for a vow renewal ceremony down the road. A friend of mine just did that with her husband and their kids were their "bridal party". Not something I want to do right away, but would consider for our 10 year anniversary!

Jennifer102011 · June 2012

Like others, I had mine cleaned and preserved after the wedding. Wish we'd have done a session like that after the wedding, but I spent too much money on the preservation to do it now.

meganiobe · June 2012

We were thinking about doing a rock the dress session for our 1 year but since I will be pregnant and won't fit in my dress I think we are going to shoot to do it in the summer of next year. I think it will be really fun, and DH is really looking forward to it as well.

Curls218 · June 2012

I didn't rock or trash my dress after. I had it cleaned & preserved and will store it at my in-laws' until I have a house to put it in.

BluValkyrie · June 2012

my dress was cleaned and sent off to Brides Against Breast Cancer within a week of the wedding. I see no reason to preserve a wedding dress since from the start I had no intention of keeping it.

The after photo sessions, whether it be rock the dress or trash the dress, or whatever, never appealed to me. And the cost isn't something we could ever justify spending. I know it doesn't cost a whole lot, but we'd either have to ship the dress out here, get it re-pressed, do the shot, clean it again, and ship it off to BABC; the alternative would have been flying back out to my parents's and doing it, which would have been WAY to expensive for just a couple hours.

It also would give us more photos that I wouldn't know what to do with.

quirky75 · June 2012

BluValkyrie:
my dress was cleaned and sent off to Brides Against Breast Cancer within a week of the wedding. I see no reason to preserve a wedding dress since from the start I had no intention of keeping it.

Ditto this except it took me about 6 months to do it.

LilMissScareAll · June 2012

We did one a few days after our wedding. Our photographer included either engagement photo session or a TTD and since we didn't need more pictures of us in our street we chose the TTD. Some of my favorite pictures came from that photo session and it was so much fun.

http://www.dtyler-photography.com/blog/index.php/2011/10/ben-meshell-trash-dress/

And my dress only got dirty. It's defiantly not trashed. And I'm lazy so it's still hanging in my closet waiting to be cleaned.

elizabethjane25 · June 2012

thanks everyone for your thoughts! i haven't looked into how much it would cost to do (and that is a very big factor in my decision making process!), but i'm glad to know that others have done it or heard of it and i'm not just being silly. i think it would be a lot of fun to do, and we didn't do an engagement shoot, so i don't have a zillion pictures that i don't know what to do with!

PattyandAlan · June 2012

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your pictures! Makes me wish we had done it down at the beach or up at the farm.

marriedonmaui · June 2012

We did this!

http://jennifersmutek.com/index.php/archives/2918

We got it cleaned after wards and I wore it to our at home reception and then got it shortened to wear on our anniversaries. My dress definitely didn't go to waste

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