##  Splash! Mermaid Bride: A Trash The Dress Shoot 

Talk about visual impact! Now I am not suggesting that this is what you get up to on your wedding day ladies, but for a trash the dress shoot… what a stunner! Revel in it. 

Friend of the wedding blog Jess Petrie Photography put this vibrant and haunting set of images together. I asked her about the inspiration behind the day.

Jess says: _I have had a styled bridal shoot in mind where I would take the most stunning dress and the bride wearing it off to the sea and completely trash it. I am a big fan of wedding magazines and blogs. I like to look for inspiration through different things. We don’t very often see our brides getting married by the sea, and if they do it’s abroad. But why? Ok we don’t have the best weather but we do have some stunning beaches, and they are free!_

_I chose Filey Bay, North Yorkshire, because it’s somewhere I used to visit often with my grandparents as a child and I have a lot of good memories here. The sand is very soft and golden and the beach stretches right out, as far as you can see. There are a lot of stunning views with the cliffs at either end, and of course the North Sea._

Trust me… you **want** to read more!

_Having brides on a budget in mind and the fact that the wedding dress was going to be ‘trashed’ I hunted for the dress through a number of charity shops, and I was amazed at how many wedding dresses they actually had and how beautiful and like new they all were! I came across the perfect dress: a cross between Victorian and Vintage, simply stunning £25.00._

_The pearl necklace and earrings I also got from a charity shop for a few quid. The hat I made with a hair clip I got for £2.99 from a charity shop, netting from a material shop £1.25, and bits of fabric that I had lying around at home._

__The vintage bouquet was kindly put together and donated to me byDebbie Wilde at Wilde Flowers, Dronfield. _Voila!_.

_The shoot, like the majority of my work has a story behind it, and not a very happy one, but it went well with the trashing of the dress, dramatic nature and artistic creation behind the whole thing. I suppose you have to see the art in it to really appreciate it; a bit like you would a painting_

_The shoot went amazingly well, despite it being a heat-wave on a Saturday, which made it an extremely busy place, but it turned out perfect._

Photographer: Jess Petrie Photography

Model: Agi Banas

Make-up: Talat MUA

Chair: Farah’s Fabulous Vintage Shop

Dress: Ashgate Hospice

Vintage bouquet: Wilde Flowers by Debbie Wilde

Vintage Hat: Made & designed by Jess Petrie

  * We got married by the sea in cornwall and agree we have amazing beaches. Jess is amazing. great shoot xx

  * Wow I want Jess as my wedding photographer! What amazing photos such depth & quality. Stunning!

  * Wow how creative really does bring home just what we can do on a budget and still look fabulouse! Amazing pics! And Jessica is so talented a true artist!

  * Beautiful images – love these sort of shoots – I have only done one – it was great fun!!!

  * Simply stunning! Jess is an amazing photographer, very talented

  * Not bad, a brave effort in the freezing cold see.

The post processing could be toned down a little but that’s just a tweak