“Trash the dress”, is a style of wedding photography that contrasts elegant bride and groom attire with an environment in which it is out of place creating a photo essay of contrast, beauty, and dramatic transformation. Such photography often takes place on a beach, but other locations often include lakes and streams, city streets, rooftops, water falls, muddy fields, tub-shower units, garbage dumps, fields, and abandoned buildings. The woman wears her wedding dress, and may effectively “trash” the dress in the process by getting it wet, dirty, or, in extreme circumstances, tearing, cutting, or destroying the garment, or entire outfit. However, in the great majority of these photo sessions, the dress is not ruined and is easily cleaned. The motivation for brides is symbolic representing the end of the wedding and her transformation of a bride to a wife rather than storing it forever never to be seen again.