Trash the Dress: The most colourful day of your life
The sun shines, the bride and groom are smiling and family members are gathered around the newly wed couple – having their photo’s taken. Suddenly, the envious bridesmaid in demure black, starts to squirt paint all over the bride’s new designer dress. Reds, blues, yellows and even green all over the dress and veil until the bride… starts to squirt back.
Family members look on in amusement and decide to join in.
Not your normal wedding day photo but colourful all the same and that’s why this weird and wonderful craze has swept America… and now Sheffield.
Serendipity Photography, who specialise in Kid’s and wedding photography, and Little White Book Wedding, who are a company of wedding planners, contacted me to see if I wanted to be acting bride and paint victim. Naturally, I declined modelling as a bride and having a paint fight… yeah right, it was definitely up my street and my second fake wedding as a singleton! Best of all, my model/make up artist stunning friend – Katy Padam worked on the shoot with me.
Our chosen venue/paint dungeon was a derelict area on the outskirts of Sheffield City Centre where there was lots of stunning graffiti art and disused factories.
So there we were shivering in white wedding dresses fighting with bottles of paint and smashing our bouquets on one another.
Hah all in a day’s work… the only slightly embarrassing moment came when Katy and I had to journey home covered in paint and dressed wedding dresses…
Watch out for part 11: Trash the Costume where I get covered in paint in my bellydance outfit… and finally I wonder if it’s a trend we could spread to funerals… I’d like that … trash the coffin.
