Trash the dress is a concept which has been around for many years but which has become increasingly popular over the last couple. Once the wedding day and honeymoon are over many brides are choosing to don their dresses one last time to destroy them in a spectacular way whilst creating some fabulous photographs.

When I first heard about this trend I thought ‘why on earth would anyone in their right minds want to do that’? No matter what your budget your wedding dress has a lot of sentimental and monetary value. I really couldn’t understand why anyone would want to destroy it

I am however starting to come round to the idea.

Ok if you are not particularly materialistic and are more than happy to sell your wedding dress to regain some of those recently spent funds, then good for you; it’s a really sensible thing to do.

However for the rest of us who can’t quite let go of that dress which we’ve spent so long finding, fitting and which is costing more than any one other item of clothing we are ever likely to buy, not to mention the sentimental value, then actually it’s quite an interesting option.

Lets be honest the dress is only really likely to stay wrapped and hung at the back of the wardrobe, protected from harm for those ever so occasional times when we’ll want to take a sneaky peak. Any mislead dreams that maybe one day our daughters may want to get married in the same dress should quickly be laughed off – pretty as she looked I’ve seen my mum’s wedding dress and fashions certainly change!

In the bigger scheme of life any item of clothing really isn’t that important but silly as is sounds I am not sure I could ever bring myself to sell my wedding dress for another bride to wear. Yet is it not a little heart breaking to think of our wonderful wedding dresses hanging sadly at the back of the wardrobe rarely to see the light of day again?

I’ve seen photos of a bride and groom standing in a white room with several tubs of paint and two large paint brushes flicking paint all over each other. I’ve seen brides in lakes, in mud and even skydiving. Crazy as it all may sound its made for some really colourful eye catchy photos which look great blown up and hung as art.

What an excuse to do something memorial and create some spectacular art which you can treasure for ever, hung where it can be seen rather than out of sight getting moth balls! Of course you need a top photographer and I’d be tempted to go the whole hog and get a make up artist as well. I guess the biggest challenge is choosing an activity which will work for you and which can be captured spectacularly on camera.