Taking the Plunge
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And the judges say… 9.7, 9.7, 9.6! This bride’s got MAD SKILLZ. I kinda want to get this professionally printed with archival inks and frame it n’ shit. She’s got great form for a first-timer (assuming she isn’t working on her 2nd or 3rd marriage, of course). Totally reminds me of this keg stand queen.
Come to think of it, there are a bunch of talented wedding athletes that roll through Wedinator. I guess weddings just bring out the excitement in people.
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Way back in ’07 when I was planning my wedding, I heard about this trend. Apparently brides would trash their dresses after the wedding, doing anything from swimming to mud wrestling. The pictures were then supposed to be awesome. I’m not sure the purpose, maybe to find yet another way to be extravagant in the good ol’ U.S. of A.?
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If your only going to wear it one time, why not trash it?
I hope she took her shoes off. Swimming pool water will mess your shoes up.
If you’re going to spend thousands of dollars on a dress and then turn right around and trash it you really deserve to get beaten. Wasteful. So, so wasteful.
Exactly! It’s much less wasteful to spend thousands of dollars on a dress and services to preserve it so that it can spend the rest of its existence in a box under your bed.
I love this trend! I’d much rather buy a cheaper dress and trash it than buy an expensive one only to let it take up space in the closet. I don’t really think of a wedding dress as being a long-term investment.
My wife sold her dress on eBay. Then we bought a piece of furniture to hold our wedding china. Destroying assets or “pickling” a dress to preserve it are silly.
Or, you know, somerandon, you could *not* spend thousands of dollars on the dress…if I bought a dress at Goodwill, or made my own, I’d feel okay trashing it. It’s kind of a neat photo-op idea…I’ve also seen people doing this in prom-style dresses. Again, I think it all depends on where you got the dress and how much it was. Spending that kind of money on a dress is just ridiculous anyways.
I agree about trashing wedding dresses otherwise, though…I’d either want to keep it for a memento (although I’m not the souvenir-keeping sort) or donate it to some kind of charity…it would feel better, karma-wise.
Donate it. There are many people that cannot afford nice dresses, but would still like a nice wedding. Trashing an expensive wedding dress is a slap in the face to someone who cannot afford one. Although it is clearly not as serious, on some level it is like having a food fight in front of a starving person.
obvious shop is obvious.
@Kenoscope
You don’t trash it because a) it cost a lot of money and b) it is a lovely thing which holds your memories which you can look back on. My Mum made my beautiful wedding dress for my 1995 wedding and it took her 6mths (it really is beautifull) and my Dad sewed on some of the beadwork because he said that after they have been long gone I will always have a part of them. My Mum passed suddenly in ’97 and the dress means even more now. It’s not just material.
I’m torn here — I wouldn’t want to do that to my wedding dress, but it’s a DAMN cool picture.
few people ever do anything with their dress after the wedding … they just pay a ridiculous amount to wear it once and then it gets packed in a box and never opened again. to actually trash it isnt any more wasteful – at least theyre being honest about it.
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I just got married and we jumped in the pool after the ceremony. I spent $550 getting my dress made – a velvet top with a skirt of 50 yards of tulle. I took the velvet off and wore a black bathing suit under the tulle skirt… And it didn’t get trashed. I swam with it until it was a bit tangling then it was taken and hung up to dry. It is in perfect shape. Even if it had been ruined, it was a fun thing to do and a bit of a surprise to everyone. This was not a planned event. We were going to go swimming but in proper gear… it just came over us to do it in our wedding outfits. (My husband wore jeans and a linen shirt so his clothes were fine too.
Your money, your dress, your memories… It’s not a slap in the face to anyone for a couple to play on their wedding day.