July 30, 2007

• Trash Bash in the OC

  Trashthedress.com held an insanely fun “OC Trash Bash” yesterday (which many girls knew about from my WB posting…hooray!) in Laguna Beach. 10 brides showed up (with 9 grooms) in their full bridal fare… and then there was me. You see, I wanted to go so badly that I got myself a replacement dress to play with in the water, since my dress couldn’t come out and play.  The OC Register captured the “behind the scenes” action of the shoot and wrote up an article for the paper today… and we’ll be getting proofs and CDs of our images back from photographers over the next few weeks. Heck, some of my photos are already posted to one of the photographer’s blogs!

  All photos courtesy of ANA VENEGAS & THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
  
  [click here for the video]

  I can’t express to you how enjoyable it is to get a big long fancy dress soaking wet and to splash in the waves. It’s the opposite of everything ladylike and formal about a wedding… and it’s all about pure fun! Now I know not everyone has a WARM ocean to hop into for a shoot like this, but in all honesty, any method of getting the gown dirty would be a blast. 

   
  
  

  

  

  

  

  
  
  
  (yup… that’s me trying not to peek out of my dress with Greg Bumatay behind the camera)

  Sure it’s a little bit of excess… but a lot of these brides are getting their dresses dry cleaned and donating them to
  Brides Against Breast Cancer. And for us, it was free… so why not? And I must give a shout-out to my groomsless buddy Kelli and knot super-star Clara for making the day even more fun!

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