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Trash the dress ... or not

Image by Hollye Schumacher Photography from Trash the Dress

Ever thought what you'd do with your dress after the big day?

I have a confession to make, my gorgeous hand made dress is in the attic. Because it's not a typical wedding dress, I thought I'd dye it and my shoes an interesting colour and wear them to parties and balls in the future or, at least, my daughter would want to dress up in them and dream of her marriage to a handsome prince.

Sadly, the parties didn't call for such a frock and we weren't blessed with children so my beautiful wedding dress still languishes in the attic, and now I've grown out of it. But I'm still not sure I can give away this very tangible memory of one of the happiest days of my life.

So what will you do with yours?

Some enterprising souls will be parading around in their wedding dresses at work today to raise money for charity, it being World Wedding Dress Day.

Last year Tiphanie Wright, of Amesbury, Wilts and 21 other brides, went down to the local Co-op and assisted with bag-packing at the checkouts. Later they went tenpin bowling and raised about £2500 for charity.

Others will donate the dress itself to charity, while some will have a go at trashing theirs.

Trash the Dress isn't really as wasteful as you may think. You'll still be able to do all those wonderful things after the 'trashing'. Its the latest rage in America and Julia Boggio is offering this 'post wedding' photo session under the guise of Mess the Dress. Its just another fun excuse to put the dress on one more time, before you have it dry cleaned, and get some unique shots of you and your man in extraordinary locations. Why not see if your own photographer is up for the challenge.

Image Julia Boggio Photography

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