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.

If you have enjoyed reading this and like my work, please visit my blog and website for the latest news and offers.

Tami-Foto – UK November 27, 2008

Contributed by: Tami-Foto

One word: fun!

There’s nothing like a bride who is willing to do what it takes to capture some fun, non-traditional images. I’m so glad I have laura as a client, she makes my work so much more interesting and exciting.

Website: http://www.tamicurtis.com/

Gary Tapp – Spain November 24, 2008

Contributed by: Gary Tapp-YourWeddingMoments.com

This image was actually taken during the wedding day at the end of the session. The bride, groom and myself were all walking back from the airport runway in Gibraltar after shooting with the ‘The Rock’ in the background and on the way back we walked past the local petrol station. I couldn’t resist to ask the bride to jump in and grab the one of the pumps for the very last shots … and she did!

Claire Dalgarno – UK November 9, 2008

Contributed by: Claire Dalgarno

A huge thank you to Jill & Richard for the use of their fabulous farm. Weather wise we had a great day, everywhere else in the country seemed to have rain but it stayed sunny where we were. The farm had so much variety to offer. The couple were both great & got right into the shoot straight away, with Abbie & her gorgeous smile & Lee with his “Blue Steel” look!! Even Sam the pit bull seemed to have fun whilst peeing on my foot (good job I was wearing my wellies). Here are just a few of the images from the shoot. Thanks to Abbie & Lee for being so great & again to Jill & Richard.

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Olaf Siebert: Weddings Only – Croatia October 31, 2008

Contributed by: Olaf Siebert – Weddings Only

As a wedding present Ekaterina and Anton gave their selves a TTD-session. They got married in Moscow and during their honeymoon to Croatia we put our toes in the water.

They decided to choose water since they originally wanted to get married at the beach, but then, there are no beaches in Moscow and we have plenty of them 🙂

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Jenny Blad: Sweden October 15, 2008

Contributed by: Jenny Blad

Alexandra called me up just a couple of weeks before her wedding – asking me if there was any chance
that I could shoot her wedding. But it was too late – I had been booked solid that day for quite a while.
So I suggested that we could do a ttd session instead after the wedding – and she was all for it – great
that will be a suprise for my husband she said!

So I had this really cool location in mind – we ofcourse had a blast!

Christopher Perkins – UK October 5, 2008

Contributed by: Christopher Perkins

To me ‘Trash The Dress’ is all about having fun. It’s a about creating a memento of the most special time in your life, a piece of art that is about you and your relationship. It should be individual and unique.

In my shoots I am completely open to all idea’s and directions. I want to work with you to create beautiful imagery that you will treasure and show off to your family and friends.

Since starting up my business in 2007, I have shot all sorts of imagery, from landscape to fashion, products to people. I am young (27 at the moment) and enthusiastic, with plenty of energy and ideas. I am currently based in Cheshire, UK, though I am happy to travel anywhere for my work.

I should point out that the girls in these photographs are models, but this was necessary in order to build my portfolio and show potential clients what I am about. From here on in it’s all about brides and grooms having fun…

Please feel free to browse through my various portfolios at www.christopher-perkins.com, or you’ll find all my new work on my blog, at http://snapztalks.blogspot.com I look forward to discussing your ideas.

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Nicola Lambert Hyde – UK September 21, 2008

Contributed by: Nicola Lamber Hyde – Dolly Photography

CHOOSING the wedding gown is arguably one of the most important decisions a bride will have to make – it has to be perfect, it has to have a ‘wow’ factor and it has to be memorable.
For most women, it will be the most expensive dress they ever buy – even budget brides pinch the pennies until they squeak to get their princess gown.
But – after the big day – the dress is safely stored and placed in the loft. Traditionally, brides kept it to make christening gowns for their firstborns – but now it’s more likely it will sit there forever, to be occasionally admired but never worn again.
But a new trend is emerging. Inspired by glossy magazines, brides are using their wedding gowns to do trendy fashion shoots.
The controversial Trash The Dress trend has already swept America with brides being photographed dousing their gowns in the ocean, tearing them to shreds and – in one image – setting it on fire.
In the UK, an increasing number of photographers are now offering the packages to brides – termed anything from Mess The Dress, Day After Shoots, Dangerous Bridals and Rock The Dress.
Nicola Hyde, of Dolly Photography, based in Barnsley, Yorkshire, says that British brides shouldn’t be scared off by the term.
She said: “I was married in October and the thought of deliberately ripping my dress makes me shudder. I do want to wear it again, I want to have fun with it – but it’s my special keepsake and I wouldn’t want anything bad to happen to it.
“When I hear the term Trash The Dress, I get a little squeamish myself, so something as simple as changing the wording of the trend could make a massive difference.
“I know of one lady who takes her wedding dress out every year on her anniversary and wears it for a few hours – but how much fun would she have doing a photoshoot in it?”
Nicola has photographed brides as late as almost four years after their big day.
One of these, Becky Hill, 26, from York, was married in 2004 but her tight budget didn’t allow for a photographer and she had no images that showed the detail of her dress.
She picked an urban location that would contrast with the prettiness of her gown and was instead photographed on a derelict train track and in a former industrial site in Barnsley.
She said: “I hadn’t worn my dress in over three years so it was quite meaningful to pop it on again and have some fun in it. Instead of doing my hair all pretty and pinned like it was on my wedding day, I wore my favourite vintage cowboy boots that were a family heirloom and went for really vampish make-up.”

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The Wedding Photographers – Austria September 9, 2008

Contributed by: Norman Schatz

Our Team with 6 photographers is called “Die Hochzeitsfotografen” or “The
Wedding Photographers” and is a project of the company “Green Lemon
Photography – Norman Schätz”, which is based in Austria (Klosterneuburg &
Vienna). I am the head of the company and we started our wedding
photography project in 2006 and we are very happy with our work.

The photos are from my colleague Claire Morgan and me. The Session was at
“Grüner See” in Styria Austria in June 2008. It´s a very nice and cold
mountain lake in the Austrian Alps. So the water temperature was just 8
degrees …. but we had a lot of fun :). Our TTD model is Carina and she
married approx. 1 month before and her wish was a great TTD-Session. She
likes our photos very much and so will do a secend TTD-Session end of
September again.

The link to our TTD-Slideshow is:
http://www.greenlemon.at/proofs/trash_the_dress-carina/index.html

Website: English – Austrian