Desert night skies are the best - can't beat 'em anywhere in the world. I'm thinking of a night Trash the Dress shoot in the red desert stone cliffs. (Red Rock or Valley of Fire.) Lots of twinkling stars with a glowing bride in a white wedding dress to match.
Lots of dark blues and blacks with a bit of shimmering golds complimenting the dark red rocks.
Everyone always wants what they don't have, right? So living in the desert my whole life makes me crave snow. I want a white Christmas!
So with my snow dream, I'm thinking of a kind of winter picnic or feast. Outside in the evergreens with a little table for two that has steaming plates of Christmas dinner. Fur coats and warm gloves over a white wedding dress. Can't you just smell the pine and feel the frost on your nose?
Anyone up for a winter wonderland Trash the Dress before the snow melts up at Mt. Charleston?
More off-beat trash the dress ideas for you! This idea is more about a place. I love Red Springs Calico Basin Red Rock Canyon. Calico Basin a little valley just next to Red Rock Canyon. It's got the same beautiful red rocks as the canyon but with more grass and a little meadow. The meadow has been preserved with a boardwalk circling it, called Red Springs. Love it there! Very rustic and whimsical.
The love the idea of chairs and couches out in nature but, what about a whole four-post bed! I'm thinking of a bedchamber right in the middle of the meadow with a couple lounging and playing around. Kinda sexy, a little boudoir-ish; but with wedding clothes on. Though it would make a great engagement session too!
I'd want to reflect the natural colors of the area, yellows, green, copper reds, and browns.
This is my first installment of this “I’m Envisioning…” category. I have all these crazy, cool ideas floating around in my head all the time and I try to write them down and utilize them, but that doesn’t anyways happen. I feel like some of these cool ideas are being wasted, so I’ve decided to share them before I forget and lose the idea. Sometimes I feel like I’m just waiting around for brides to call and say to me “I want to shoot some funky pictures, what do you have in mind.” Every so often that does happen and I LOVE it! But I want to put the ideas out there. Then you all can call me up and say “Saw your crazy idea –Let’s do it!”
Now I can’t really draw so I’ve enlisted the help of a few talented family members to redraw some of my sketches. (My sketches are so bad you wouldn’t be able to tell what they are.) This palette is of a bride half buried in red sand. I'm thinking in warm yet, muted desert tones. Red, Copper, Orange, Brown, Sand.
I’d really love to hear what you all think. Love the idea? Think it’s strange? Want to model for it?! Comment below and let me know.