Posts from the ‘Encore: Trash the Dress’ Category

Upper Peninsula, Michigan | Lake Superior

Kylee and Chris invited us out with them the day after their wedding for an Encore session during which we just drove up the interstate and stopped at amazing places. Kylee knew of a few choice spots but that didn’t stop us from wandering around until the sun went down.

I can’t even begin to tell you how much we adored the landscape in the Upper Peninsula. The colors, the climate, the foliage, the wreckage, the abandon that everyone has. No one minds at all if you climb through a broken down warehouse with rusty nails and glass all over the floor. There’s no barbed wire around a broken down and half sunken dredger. There’s lakes that look as big as oceans. There’s forests that look like fire. It’s pretty much a magical land…

Central Park | New York City, New York

Kristin and Travis. Perfection. Hilarious. Smarty pantses. (Is that a word? Oh well, they’re not English majors.) Smiley. Scholars. Quick witted. Relaxed. Dedicated. Unafraid. Patient. Loyal. They spent the first months of their marriage separated by thousands of miles. But now they’re reunited, and in it for the long haul. That’s why Kristin wanted to symbolically say goodbye to her wedding dress. Because the wedding is over. And now the marriage remains. And unlike the wedding dress, it’s not going anywhere.

Let forever begin…

Central Park | New York City, New York

Travis and Kristin came up to NYC to meet us for their Encore session. We had been trying to make this thing happen in the city and luckily both of our schedules worked out. Travis and Kristin live in Boston (which we have now officially added to our need-to-visit list) and took the train up for the day to explore and say buh-bye to her dress.Our Encore sessions are any sessions after the wedding. They can be in your wedding clothes or not. You can ruin your clothes or not. Kristin and Travis wanted a very symbolic goodbye to her dress as a way of saying that the dress didn’t matter because they’re in this thing forever.

We started in Central Park where we walked from the southeast corner to the boathouse and around the trails behind it. We found an amazing spot on top of a little mountain overlooking the boaters in the lake and that’s where I snapped this frame. It’s one of my favorite images I’ve ever taken. All the elements came together at the exact right second and I’m in love.

After this Kristin and Travis decided to get in Bethesda fountain (aka, the hugely public fountain at the entrance to the lake where hundreds of people are at all times and where security can very publicly haul your arses away). Luckily, it was raining which cleared out most of the crowds. Then they did it. They got right in. The security guard had mercy on us and told us that as long as we could book it out of there before the guards came he would let us go so we did. But that’s not where this trip ended. Kristin wanted to really say goodbye to her dress and so she asked the doorman of our hotel for scissors. We then found an alleyway where Travis cut her dress off of her and then ceremoniously threw it into the garbage and they walked hand in hand away.

I’ll have all the images from it up here soon but I couldn’t resist sharing the story and this favorite one. Happy weekend!