I have a few things from the end of last year that I want to blog about, and this is one of them.
As I planned our wedding, I LOVED looking at wedding photos. I would look at the Web sites of wedding photographers, flip through magazine after magazine and look at photos from other brides. Since we got married in Ohio, I knew we wouldn't have any beach photos, and since we got married on a rainy November morning, there wasn't even any real chance for any outside photos. (And we won't even go in to how awful our actual photographer was ...)
Anyway. After looking all of the sites and photos, I started to think about doing a Trash the Dress session. Some brides and photographers take this term very seriously and take photos in burned out buildings, fields of mud or repairing cars. I didn't want to *trash* my dress, though - I wanted to celebrate it and wear it one more time. I also wanted to get photos in an environment that has been such a big part of our engaged and married lives: Florida.
About a year and a half ago, I was introduced to Christine by mutual friends (like loyal blog readers Stef and Julia and Todd). Around the time I started my business last year, she was laid off from her full-time job as a newspaper photographer. Rather than try to get a job with another newspaper, she decided to pour her heart and soul in to building the photography business she had been running on the side. She asked me to design some flyers for her, and it was one of the first paid jobs I had. During our talks about what images and wording should go on the flyers, I shared my dreams of doing a Trash the Dress session. Since Christine a) is awesome and b) was looking to add to her portfolio, she said she'd love to shoot our session.
I kind of wanted to do the shoot around our anniversary and after our trip to Ohio. We arranged the schedules of Tim, Christine and I to meet at St. Pete Beach (where we got engaged, so it was a special location for us) in early December. Little did I know that days before we did the shoot we'd find out that we'd have another person joining us for the session (and I was dealing with just the beginning of the nausea).
It was cloudy and cool and very windy, but it also had a cool vibe and we figured since it rained on our wedding day, the cloudy atmosphere echoed our big day. We got some funny looks, a lot of smiles and had a blast. Tim was a great sport, despite finding out on our way there that he had to work for a few hours that night (and the beach is about an hour from where we live). When we got home, I let my dress dry - it was really only wet on the bottom and on some of the inner layers - and shook the sand off a few days later. You would never know it was in the Gulf of Mexico :)
Here are just a few of my favorites from the day:
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