Committed: The Ties that Bond
with Angella Dykstra
I'm a mom of three, a professional accountant, and an amateur photographer and writer. I am not a marriage expert. But my husband and I take "Til death do us part" seriously, and here I'll be sharing how we keep our marriage strong while we both do that insane work-life juggle.
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Last month, I posted a photo of my husband and I on our wedding day on Instagram as part of the monthly photo challenge. In my description, I stated that I’ve always thought it would be neat to wear my dress again - I love it so much - and a fun idea would be to get a group of girlfriends together and go out for dinner in our dresses. As I usually do, I also sent the photo to Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr. Later that day, I had a stranger contact me via Flickr mail with the following message.
If you are ever planning to do a trash the dress shoot, so that you can wear your dress once again, please read the following:
I usually ask brides who have done a trash the dress shoot to help my charity work. I try to restore dresses used in a trash the dress shoot. I donate these dresses after restoring them to people in need.
They can’t afford to buy a dress for their wedding and I like to help them.
I hope this would be an idea to wear your wedding dress once more. If you are planning to get rid of the dress please contact me.
It’s a great cause, I guess, but found it odd that a stranger would ask me if I were planning on trashing my wedding dress, especially since I had said nothing about doing so. I wrote her back and told her that I had no desire to trash my dress or get rid of it. I have a daughter and while I don’t expect that she’ll wear it one day, I do think she may like to have it.
I know that trash the dress wedding shoots are somewhat popular, but it’s not something I want to do.
How about you? Would you/did you trash your wedding dress?
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The photographer in me says “yay! Fun to shoot!” but each time I’ve done one (only done a few) I feel a little sad that a beautiful gown is wrecked when someone would love to have it at an affordable price.
Most of my post wedding shoots are for fun, bride riding her horse for example, the dress got dirty but nowhere close to trashed!
I would never personally trash my own dress. Especially since I tried it on last week and actually FIT into that mermaid gown for the first time since our wedding almost 11yrs ago!
Jennifer Kirk | February 14th, 2012 at 2:34 pm
I’m on the fence. I don’t know if I’ll want to ‘trash’ it but I would like to wear it again (I get to wear it in 18! days! So excited!). I would consider dying it though.
K | February 14th, 2012 at 2:40 pm
I got to wear my wedding dress again 2 years ago (11 years after my wedding) for a bridal fashion show at church. It was AMAZING! I was stoked that a) I still fit my dress perfectly and b) I got to show it off again, because I LOVE my dress.
I am definitely going to do a trash the dress photo shoot with my amazing photographer friend (the one who did our family shoot a year or so ago). She’s done a couple of trash the dress shoots already and I LOVED what she did with them. Not sure when it will happen, but we’ve already been talking about ideas. She has the best ideas!
Hannah | February 14th, 2012 at 3:48 pm
As a newly wed, the thought of defecating my bea-u-ti-ful dress through a trash the dress shoot horrifies me! So I would say NEVER!
I would love to wear it again. I suppose I should clean it and find a real place to put it. Currently it resides on the closet door of the guest bedroom where I can look at it.
Heather | February 14th, 2012 at 7:45 pm
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mingmm | February 18th, 2012 at 2:48 am
I could be persuaded to trash my dress, but I’d like to have a shoot with me wearing it again, looking great, first! Our wedding photographer didn’t get a great shot of the back of my gown (the best feature), which always bugged me. I have a daughter, too, but she probably won’t want to wear my dress… I’d like to renew my vows but in a brand new dress.
quietfire2012 | February 20th, 2012 at 7:05 pm