Elyssa's Trash the Dress {Muncie, Yorktown Indiana photo session}
Posted: July 06, 2010

All I can say about this shoot is OMG!!! This bride is the greatest! I remember her wedding day last year, it was absolutely fabulous….amazing flowers, gorgeous gown (she wore her mothers wedding gown), hilarious wedding party and perfect calm personality with both her and her now husband. I knew from the beginning we would be doing a Trash the Dress session, I just wasn’t sure when. A couple months ago we started planning her trash the dress session and I knew from the first conversation it was be fabulous! Her sister (whom I’ve also photographed a zillion times, wedding included) and her were planning the session and cc’ing me in all the emails they were sending back and forth….I read, painting, riding a bike with her husband, coffee shop, walking through the woods, next to the pond and the list goes on and on! As we got close to the day I was getting super excited about all of Elyssa’s ideas. We met at the new Vecino’s coffee shop downtown Muncie (check out that blog too~ they’ve got amazing coffee and a ridiculously friendly bar staff). Elyssa walks in the door in her dress, Erynne (maid of honor/sister) walks in behind her in her dress, Lisa (mother of the bride) is also wearing her dress from the wedding day! Wow, three gorgeous women ready and willing for me to get creative! We photographed around the coffee shop, photographed outside (not for long since it was 90 degrees out) and headed out to Elyssa’s parents home for the rest. As we’re driving along I see a little ways up a carnival on the side of the road~ oh that would be so fun!!! My mind is racing for all the cool ideas that are running through my mind. All of the sudden I see their turn signal flip on~ YEAH!!! She’s reading my mind!! We’re going to the carnival! So, we race out, buy tickets and try to figure out what are the best rides to go on. First, the Scrambler! I will add, for the record, I WAS ON the scrambler with the girls when taking all the images! Flying around, camera in a death grip, hair flipping all over crazy! We had a blast and honestly when the ride stopped and we got off, I had no idea if I was even getting images worth anything! I couldn’t even see what I was doing, just laughing clicking away…holding on for dear life! Elyssa and I ran through the fun house as well, letting all the little kids go ahead of us (who were thoroughly confused as to why there was a girl in a wedding dress getting pictures taken in a Funhouse)! After we were all laughed out and sweating from the heat we decided to head out to the farm for the last half of the shoot. Elyssa’s a painter~ so we photographed her painting a portrait of her husband, Josh’s a biker~ so we photographed Josh biking along with Elyssa on the handlebars! Check out the video to get a glimpse of all the amazing ideas we came up with!