Yeahhhh! It’s finally here, Sarah Trashed her Dress! We have been waiting since the wedding when we first saw the dress to do this shoot. Of course there wasn’t much literal trashing involved, she just got the dress wet. For those of you who need more information as to why a bride may want to do this here is www.trashthedress.com, perhaps the best answers can be found here.
We all piled into the boat and headed out on the lake in Muskoka to capture some really cool shots. This was the first time I ever saw a bride jump 2 stories into a lake to trash her dress. See photos below. Sarah and Jamie grew up, met and were married in Muskoka so the cottage was the perfect setting for this shoot. We all went to some fun little islands called “Bad Boys Island” and “Bad Girls Island”. Bad Boy’s Island was literally a rock with a few trees, so small you couldn’t even stand on it, luckily there was a small shelf of rock just a few inches below the water that Sarah could stand on, she looked like a super model walking on the water. That was pretty much the only rock, so Ryan was waist deep taking shots in the water, and I was shooting from the boat, we even has a light stand in the water.
We really love how Jamie and Sarah’s wedding locations were connected like a story, From the engagement shots on the front porch of their house, to the wedding on the lake, and reception in a boat museum, that had a set designed to look like a front porch of a house where their head table sat, and finally the trash the dress in the lake.
We are really sad that this 3 part series of photo shoots is over, but we hope that someday soon they will call us again for the 4th part (their first baby, hint, hint)
We want to thank Sarah and Jamie for being troopers, and our most dare-devilish couple to date.
And we would like to thank Logan, our assistant, no one holds a light quite like her, she is always happy to do whatever needs to be done, even if it means standing knee deep in the lake or driving a boat in circles so I can grab the perfect shot.
Here they are, the shots from our first Trash the Dress for 2008.
Enjoy!
Erika & Ryan
P.S- Wanna see more photos of Sarah and Jamie? click here to view Parts #1 & #2.
…and one of Ryan, just for fun.
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