Trash The Dress Liverpool

You've seen the video (if you haven't, look below/here) now check out the finished images...

'Trash The Dress' has become a craze amongst wedding photographers and their clients in recent years.  It is getting more and more of a buzz about it, as brides want some mementoes of the most special time of their lives that are individual, dramatic and fun.

If you've been following this blog, you will have seen these dresses before. At the earlier stages we were just playing around with them, testing ideas out and doing more of a bridal fashion theme. Now though, its time to TRASH them, and trash them properly. Hence the darling was going straight in the bin on our return.

So it was, that we found ourselves in a cold and torrential storm on a beach just north of Liverpool, UK, making a good old mess. This was August, it was supposed to be summer, but we all know you can't rely on the British weather, though it certainly worked for us.

Photography © Christopher Perkins 2008

Hair, Make-Up and Styling: Deborah Lawson

Model: Kitty Chu

Trash The Dress Beach Video

Last weekend was interesting!

It saw the third part of our ongoing 'Trash The Dress' project take us to the beaches just north of Liverpool.

The day had been in the planning for over a month with everybody booked, but in the week leading up to the shoot all we were having was bad weather.  It was raining and raining and forecast to continue.  Now I don't much rate our weather forecasters so I preferred to stay optimistic.  However, we did decided to go out and recce some backup locations.

The day came though, and the weather didn't look too bad.  We would go for it!  We grabbed some studio shots first, cos Deb had done an amazing creative job with the make-up, which had to recorded in all its glory.  Then it was off to the beach...at the first location it was very windy but thankfully not wet.  The second location though was slightly different, by thew time we arrived it was bucketing it down.  What to do, what to do?

Well we'd come this far and the intention was to destroy this dress, we had to do it.  I say all this because I need to give huge huge credit to our superb model for the day, Kitty Chu.  I cannot imagine other models going to the lengths she wanted to to get the best images we could.  So Kitty, THANKS!!

Enjoy this video, the final images shall be up here soon....

(They now are...click here)

(Video editing by Deborah Lawson)