Trashing the Dress - answers please

[morenaindc]

Ladies - I have spent the last few months looking at the TTD sessions on this forum. Everythings looks lovely but I dont understand what the significance is? Does anyone out there know the history or the meaning...or is this just a fun fad?

[Martha]

It's just a way to have fun! I think a lot of the TTD pictures are more intimate and personal for the bride and groom too.

[frazali]

Don't have the answer to your question - but I'll add one of my own. Do most brides trash their actual wedding dress or do you have a separate dress for trashing?

[Sarah]

It's basically a fun fad. John Michael Cooper (altf.com the photography of john michael cooper) is credited with being the grandfather of TTD. It was basically just a different photography technique.

 

If nothing else, it's sooooo fun! And, if you're just rolling around on the beach, the dress doesn't really get trashed. Mine was clean. I just rinsed it in the hotel tub.

[Sandra E.]

Here's another article about TTD:

 

A little bit of history, John Michael Cooper ‘Alt f’ Trash the Dress Australia!

[Heidi]

We did it for fun! And I used a second dress for it.

[DreaW]

We had so much fun doing ours.....Those are our favorite pics from the wedding.

[foxytv]

Ours was for fun and to get some amazing pics you wouldn't otherwise be able to get.

 

I had a 2nd dress that I bought on eBay and it was perfect. Didn't get trashed at all. Just needs to be cleaned.

[Nic Dragomire]

To me a TTD is just another photo shoot, but its different in the sense that we have more latitude as to where we can go and shoot. I don't call them trash the dress sessions, rather "day after sessions" because Im not trashing anything, well at least nothing a good dry cleaning will not take care of.

 

When I think of TTD or Day after sessions I think of a dirty alley, bull ring, or sitting on some beautiful 150 year old stone steps. On a wedding day almost all of my brides want to keep the dress as clean as possible (of course) , so the day after sessions provide a photo op where we can go out, shoot and not have to worry about keeping clean.

 

~ nic

[Agape Gems]

We did it just for fun and i used my real dress. It was fine afterwards. I told my mom the significance was that i would never need the dress again b/c i had found my one true love.