Turn it into a nice quilt, indeed - I couldn't even type for a good five minutes after I read that! What century are we living in? nice quilt - go bake some cakes.

Yes, it's disrespectful to the institution, but not to the vow or the man. And disrespecting institutions is one of the few things that gives me hope for the future.

Yes, it's destructive. Yes, it's wasteful.
Who's going to wear their wedding dress again?

Who is, realistically, going to keep it incase they have a daughter who wants to wear her old mum's mouldy old wedding dress, assuming she has a conventional wedding at all?


Okay, if you fall into that category, there are plenty of soft-focus filters still on cameras out there that'll make you look like your gran, regardless of your age.

I'm loving the hate, here. It tells me this is a Good Thing. It tells me who I don't want to be like. It tells me that there is a way to separate those with vision, daring and imagination from those who want soft-focus, three-quarters on to the camera, softbox chocolate box tat.

I like the idea of trashing the dress. I loved my dress but I wasn't one of those crazed women that had spent thousands on a dress, mine was on clearance and I bought it off the rack. I spent more on my shoes and veil than the dress so I plan on making some really fancy throw pillows out of it...well from the parts that don't have wine stains.

Some of you people need to calm down, it's not insulting to the marraige at all. It's a dress, nothing more. There's a reason why people spend a butt load of money on photographers to capture the day. Most of these dresses end up in the trash eventually (regardless how badly you want your daughter to wear it...which BTW speaks volumes of you) so taking a crazy picture (maybe not like the one being set on fire) like jumping into a pool or beach or skydiving is a great way to capture another moment in life with your husband. And think of all the closet space you'll get back once that damn dress is gone! :)

I could vomit. Conspicuous consumption taken to the extreme. No wonder a huge part of the world hates us.

There's something both completely bonkers and yet totally appealing about this idea. Love the photo but it's so creepy!

(If anyone is bored enough at work to visit a health and fitness blog, you could check out http://crankyfitness.blogspot.com/. But there's nothing remotely fashionable about it).

This is interesting..

I can only describe it in one word "idiotic"

If you don't want to keep the dress for your daughters, you could turn it into a nice quilt instead of just trashing it. What a waste to be that destructive...

What and idiotic, hedonistic practice! If your future bride wants to trash her wedding dress, take that as not a good signal for the longevity of the marriage. She doesn't want to save it to share with your future children? If she no longer wants the dress, the very best idea would be to donate it to charity. Sounds like an unstable Bridezilla to me!

What a stupid idea.

THIS PUTS THE ICING ON THE CAKE THAT WE IN AMERICA HAVE GONE BOONKERS!!!

WHAT INSANE, IDIOT, STUPID, MENTALLY CRAZY, ABSURED, RIDICIOUS,
IDEA WILL THEY COME UP WITH NEXT???

FOLKS, THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE SUPPOSE TO BE "INTELLIGENT"
PEOPLE. THEY ARE SUPPOSE TO BE OUR EXAMPLE SETTER.

OUR GRANDMOTHER'S THOUGHT THE WORLD WAS GOING BAD. THEY DID NOT KNOW ANYTHING YET.

I CAN ONLY SAY "GOD HELP US!!".

Anything that's "all the rage" is no longer "unconventional."

Or you could give the dress to your daughter. Or you could give it to charity for a woman who maybe can't afford a gown to have. This seems more like something you would do after going through a bad divorce. It looks to me like trying to destroy memories of your marriage to the person.

I am doing this and I am very excited about it. It will give me another chance to wear my dress and get some fantastic pics. I'm doing some on the beach here in Florida. I don't plan on having children and I don't sew.

WHAT!!!!!!!!! Have any of you ever heard of donating the dress? If you don't want it for your kids or never plan on having kids(I didn't either, now I have two wonderful daughters) and you don't sew (you might decide to learn latter, I did) Donate it there are plenty of brides without the means to buy a new one who would feel blessed to find one at thier local Goodwill store or other consignment shop. I'm not an "enviromentalist" but lets stop the wastefulness of our society!

wonderful. These dresses are enormously expensive. Why not "trash" the entire wedding and send the sickening sum of money you might have spent on your "edgy" wedding to a needy cause. Now that's unconventional

Next they'll be telling photographers to trash their cameras after the last photo of the wedding is taken...

How about donating the dress instead, so someone who can't afford a nice dress can still wear one...

Some of you should take a few minutes to actually look at the pictures. Not in every picture are they literally "trashing" the dress, they are just taking photos in unconventional places. Rather than a garden with flowers they are somewhere that you wouldn't expect to see someone dressed in a wedding dress. It's very high fasion photography if you look in fashion magazines of any sort. Even if they did trash the dress, who cares? You will never wear that again, and quite frankly, I doubt your daughter will care if she ever sees your old wedding gown, my mother showed me hers a long time ago and I thought it was hideous on a hanger. Not all wedding dresses are insanely expensive if you know how to shop either. Don't be so uptight, try to appreciate art for what it is. I'd love to add some flavor to an otherwise "typical" wedding album with something like this. I might not set myself on fire, but some of the other photos are very appealing.

Call me a stick-in-the-mud, but I think the Burn Unit is a poor choice for a place to spend one's honeymoon.

I could not afford a nice wedding dress when I got married, donating the dress would be a much nicer idea. I am all for fun and games but for this much money it seems silly and wasteful.