Claire Dalgarno November 22, 2009

Contributed by: Claire Dalgarno

Call it “Trash the Dress”, “Cherish the Dress” or “Rock the Frock” it all comes down to one thing & thats having some gorgeous images taken back in your wedding dress! Lets face it the dress is without a doubt the most expensive dress you will ever buy & only wear once so why not show it off another day at some great locations that you probably didn’t have the time for on your big day. Here are some of my favourites from my TTD sessions with my clients so far this year.

Mark Burton September 17, 2009

Contributed by: Mark Burton
Thanks to TTD eu, once again an ex-bride has unboxed the most expensive dress she has ever bought and gone to do a Trash The Dress shoot in the UK. This is Sarah, she contacted us after seeing some of my photographs on TTD eu, we arranged a very early start and went shooting. Thanks Sarah for being such a good sport, it was great fun and we are glad you like the results. The shots on the sofa were so funny and the one of you “Spitting” off the rocks were so “Trashy”… Thats what TTD is all about, HAVING FUN! To see the rest of the images, please visit my website.

Mallorca Wedding Services June 23, 2009

Contributed by: Mallorca Wedding Services

My name is Richard and I’m an English photographer based in Mallorca. Originally I was a travel photographer shooting holiday destinations for the big travel and tourism companies around Europe. I ended up being sent to Mallorca so often that I decided to stay there! I am now established as the islands leading architectural/ real estate photographer and am making head way into the wedding market as well. Here is an TTD session shot for a Russian couple Roman & Alyona who were on holiday near Palma. Although they had already married in St Petersburg they bought their wedding clothes with them and we spent a fun day out around the city and beach of Palma de Mallorca. This was my first TTD session so we just went with the flow and both the B&G and myself enjoyed the day immensely. My old English based website is www.richardphoto.co.uk whilst the mallorca wedding photography can be found here: http://mallorcaweddingservices.com/photography/index.html and real estate photography can be found here www.villapics.com

Mark Burton June 5, 2009

Contributed by: Mark Burton

Hi TTD viewers,
We are a Husband and wife team that work mainly in Wedding Photography but from time to time get asked to do other types of events and Portraits. We are based in Surrey UK but cover most of the south of England and sometimes the odd wedding in Europe. We got interested in the Trash The Dress idea and are now marketing it as one of our services. I spent 2 weeks looking for some good locations to shoot and my wife dug her dusty old wedding dress out and off we went. Below are just some of the shots we took which my wife loves the most. Hope you like them too. So… dig your dress out, find yourself a TTD photographer and get to it.

Mark Burton’s Website

Claire Dalgarno – UK April 24, 2009

Contributed by: Claire Dalgarno
Jo & Guy were married in Kent last year. Although I didn’t shoot their wedding Jo contacted me last year to photograph their post wedding shoot as she had seen some of my work on Trash the Dress website. Jo had horses & beach in mind & after some research found a stables in Northumberland (kimmerston stables) that hire horses to TV & Film. We decided on Bamburgh beach purely for its beauty. After a few hours sleep I headed up the coast to Bamburgh & arrived at 5am. The tide was fully out leaving pools on the rocks & wet sand. After a walk about on the beach to check exactly where I’d be shooting from I headed up to the farmhouse to pick up Jo & Guy. We got some great shots as the sun was rising. At that time of day the light is good. We finished the morning shoot at about 8.30am, Jo & Guy went back to the farmhouse & I decided to have a wander around Bamburgh until our evening shoot with the horses. Fueled by endless cups of coffee from Julie at “The Pantry” I was invigorated & found my second wind. 5pm & Dickie arrived with the horses. We headed onto the dunes for some shots with the castle in the background then onto the beach. The sun giving a nice warmth to the shots. People were starting to come up from the beach to head off home but the sight of a bride & groom on horseback gave them an excuse to stay a little longer. After the sun had set & the horses were gone we got a few more shots against the deep blue night sky. Here are just a few images from the shoot.

Claire’s Website

Foto Figueiredo – Maia, Portugal March 11, 2009

Contributed by Nuno Figueiredo

I’m a 33 year old professional photographer from Portugal. I run a company started by my grandfather 48 years ago passed along to my father and now me and i decided to push the limits of what i was seeing being done around me and present something different to my clients.

I launched the Trash the Dress idea to a bride and groom in a wedding forum and they got another couple also wanting to do it. Here are the results of my first Trash the Dress which also happened to be doubles

I hope you like the result, and you can see the full slideshow at www.fotofigueiredo.com/trash_the_dress

Foto Figueiredo Website

Erika Gerdemark: Sweden March 3, 2009

Erika Gerdemark is a photographer based in Sweden. Last summer she met Elin, a bride from 2006, for a session in central Stockholm. See more about Erika’s work at her website or at her blog.

website: www.gerdemark.se
blog: www.gerdemark.se/blog

Weddings Only: Olaf Siebert February 23, 2009

Contributed by: Olaf Siebert

Belinda and Anthony decided to do a TTD session as part of their honeymoon in Hvar after their wedding in Dubrovnik. They live in London and wanted some unique pictures to remind them of their wedding celebrations and their time in beautiful Croatia.
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Brigitte and Heinz Moser – Austrian Videographers December 24, 2008

Contributed by: Brigitte Baier-Moser

We are Austrian wedding videographers called „IVID – Professional Video“ and our wedding site is www.hochzeitsmovie.at. We started videographing in 2002 and our aim is to produce high-quality wedding videos with a „wow-effect“. This is of course, primarily the main feature film of the wedding day but also further additions like trash the dress or engagement videos, etc.

One of our couples – Petra and Martin – got married in September in Styria (Southern Austria). For trashing the dress we decided to do go on a location in southern Europe because most Austrian lakes in October or November are rather cold and freezing!
So we went at the beginning of November to Italy/Jesolo and they trashed their dress. We took the first pictures at about 10 a.m at high tide. We only took a few shots because afterwards we went to Venice and we shot an interview of the couple for embedding it as story-frame for their main feature film (Petra and Martin reflected their wedding day). Then back in Jesolo we took further trash the dress pictures by low tide.

It was real a pleasure for us to capture this couple! After their wedding Petra posted their wedding-trailer in some bridal forums and it got enormous feedback of other people. If you’d like to watch their wedding-trailer also, you can find it here:

trash the dress in jesolo from Brigitte Baier-Moser on Vimeo.

Feel free to visit our website www.hochzeitsmovie.at with another samples of our work and other really great couples .

And now please enjoy the trash-the-dress-video of Petra and Martin:

trash the dress in jesolo from Brigitte Baier-Moser on Vimeo.

KJP Images – UK December 3, 2008

Contributed by: Kris Pendlebury

I am Kris Pendlebury of KJP Images which is based on the Wirral, UK. I have always had a love of photography but it’s only recently I have pursued it as a career. Having spent four years training as an Accountant I decided it wasn’t for me and after building up my skills and working part time during 2007 I became a full time photographer in April of this year.

I am still very new and have a lot to learn but my love of photography and the inspiration given by visiting sites such as this drives me to constantly improve and aim for higher goals.

I’ve been waiting to do a ‘Trash The Dress’ shoot for a while now but couldn’t find anyone willing to give it a go. Luckily I was contacted by Cheryl & Richard who had heard of TTD and wanted some photo’s taken which were a bit different to their wedding pictures.

Well, I think I gave them what they wanted. The shoot took place at a couple of locations, near the windmill and woods of Bidston Hill and at the beach near New Brighton lighthouse. It was a beautiful sunny day but very cold especially once we got in the water for some photo’s. Cheryl and Richard were brilliant and happy to do anything I asked which made it much more relaxing and shows in the photo’s. Despite the sand and salty seawater, Cheryl’s dress cleaned up well which show’s that you don’t have to really trash your dress to still have fun and get some amazing pictures.

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