Wedding season

Posted by Emma Sibbles at 15:02 on 19 May 2008

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With wedding season fully underway I was intrigued to see an article over the weekend about brides that trash their dresses.

The premise is this:

1. Bride stresses out to find the perfect dress.

2. No one (not even the groom) is allowed to touch the dress on the day or be anywhere near it with dark-coloured beverages, food, children, pets etc.

3. Bride wears the perfect dress just once.

4. Dress is wrapped preciously away in acid-free paper never to be seen again.

But now brides are challenging the packing away and saving part of it all and wearing their dresses one last time - a final hurrah for the meringue if you will - and getting beautiful fashion photographs of themselves destroying their gowns (lying in streams, trekking across open country and climbing trees).

Of the brides interviewed the most pressing reason for this wanton destruction seemed to be a desire to enjoy the dress. On their big day they had been in awe of the dress, terrified of ruining it and by extension the whole day and marriage. This 'trashing' gave them a chance to properly inhabit the dress as well as symbolically show their desire to never marry again (I don't really believe the last bit, I think they just like the childish fun of rolling around in muck in the equivalent of your Sunday Best).

Would you trash your dress? Could you?

Find out more at trashthedress.com

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