{"id":3928,"date":"2010-09-06T01:13:25","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T08:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theweddingyentas.com\/?p=3928"},"modified":"2010-09-06T01:13:25","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T08:13:25","slug":"all-dressed-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.bryanfriedman.me\/yentas\/inside-scoop\/all-dressed-up","title":{"rendered":"All Dressed Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

You love your wedding dress, right? Who doesn’t?! It’s the prettiest, whitest, and probably most expensive dress you’ll ever own so it’s quite possible you’d welcome any additional opportunity to wear it after your wedding day! While it’s unlikely you’ll throw it on to go to the market to pick up groceries (don’t think I haven’t considered that!), there could be more eventful reasons to get back into your bridal costume to prance around and feel maaaaahvelous.<\/p>\n

Most photographers offer “Trash the Dress” or “Day After” sessions. This is a more casual photo shoot that can be solo or with the groom. Up to you. Discuss with your photographer if you’d like to capture additional sweet moments in new settings or if you want to go all out and get down and dirty in your dress. We’ve seen brides go in pools, surf waves at the beach, play in the mud, or even play paint ball. “Trash the Dress” can literally be just that. But if permanently ruining your dress makes you a little nauseous, we definitely recommend a “Day After”-style session. We think of it more like engagement photos… but in your wedding dress. Either way, both sessions make for great pictures and a fun time rewearing your get-ups from the big day.<\/p>\n

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Ask photographers if they’re doing any photo shoots for their own artistic endeavors. Photographers need more than just a camera; they need subjects! Many photographers and miscellaneous wedding vendors set up shoots for their own portfolios or for marketing and branding purposes. They need models and that would be you in your wedding dress! Remember when The Wedding Yentas coordinated the bolero photo shoot<\/a> back in May in order to provide you fashionable ideas for covering your shoulders? Well, the photographers needed brides, so they recruited some recent married ladies who buttoned themselves back into their wedding gowns to pose for the cameras. It was fun for everyone and the finished product was gorgeous! If you’d like to be involved in something like this, you can probably send a message to local photographers whose styles you like and let them know you’re interested if they need models with wedding dresses. <\/p>\n

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Bridal salons are often coordinating fashion shows at bridal fairs. Why not call up the store from which you purchased your dress and ask if they have any upcoming involvement in wedding shows? You could model your dress, or, better yet, you could model lots<\/em> of dresses! Go ahead and Google bridal shows in your area and see if there are upcoming dates. You’d have a blast and you’d be around all things wedding — and if you’re anything like us, that’s a good thing!<\/p>\n

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Spice up your anniversary. Forget the lingerie and sexy bras and panties. Just put on your wedding dress! He’ll love it. Okay, actually, he probably won’t even really care (ugh! Men!), but you’ll get to mark the date you originally got all dressed up and looked your most beautiful to marry your love on the best day of your life. Something like that, right? It’s like looking through old high school yearbooks. The sentiments of a year’s passing are truly present when you wear the threads that are most symbolic of your wedding day. On our first anniversary, my husband was sick with the flu (poor guy), so while he was resting on the couch, I ran up to the closet, put on my dress, ordered in dinner, and before I popped in our wedding DVD for an anniversary screening, I did a few twirls to make the skirt all poofy and tried to remember parts of our choreographed first dance. What a sight that must’ve been. Who knew that a year later, he’d be in PJs, filled with fluids and Advil, and I’d be in my (a weeeee bit tighter) wedding dress and flip flops, with plates of spaghetti in our laps and a new little puppy between us. Life changes in a year, but your wedding dress remains the frozen artifact of your most memorable day. <\/p>\n

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\n(above: embarrassing pictures of me. This means we’ve now entered a close friendship and you are now in my inner circle. I had just finished nursing my poor husband back to health during a lazy day at home. Ah, the beauty of marriage: not caring about bad hair days.)<\/p>\n

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