Trash the Dress Session in the Georgia Mountains

Trash the dress sessions are becoming more and more common as brides are opting to skip the post-nuptial tradition of boxing up their wedding gowns in favor of ……”trashing the dress.”

Now today’s trash the dress session incredibly captured by Matthew Druin Photography goes against the notion of completely trashing the dress and takes a semi-formal approach on this latest bridal craze. The bride Maria wanted to have a bridal session that would highlight the love and relationship between her and her husband Kyle in a romantic outdoorsy setting and if the dress ended up being trashed in the process it really didn’t matter. Aside from the gorgeous photos that were captured one of the things I absolutely love about this trash the dress session is how different it is. There’s tons of ways you can reuse your wedding gown without completely wrecking your wedding dress if you don’t want to and with a stunning gown like Maria’s wedding dress even for me it would be hard to trash that dress. Get ready to be swooned y’all!

Thanks again to Matthew Druin Photography for submitting these swoon-worthy images and congrats to Maria and Kyle!

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After Maria & Kyle’s Atlanta wedding in April, they wanted to take even more photos in their wedding attire. In search of a whimsical and romantic location Maria talked to her friend Nancy about using her beautiful property in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Georgia and she was more than willing to help out. Once we arrived, we met up with Nancy and her husband Tim, who were both beyond generous and more than willing to help in anyway.

After Maria and Kyle were changed and ready to go, we started in one of the barns. We were constantly followed by a curious block cat who just loved clawing and riding on Maria’s dress. I guess that’s trash the dress by catJ Once we finished with the barn area, the real adventure started. Nancy took us on a tour of the rugged back hill terrain of the mountains in a Cadillac Escalade no less. Surprising the Escalade handled extremely well as we crossed small rivers, drove on the edge of vertical cliffs, and over steep rocks. It really felt like an African safari, at least to us city slickers. We were only missing the wild animals.

All in all, it was really nice to get out of the city for the day and spend time with some awesome people. We had an incredible time and an amazing adventure that none of us will soon forget.