Trash the Dress portraits on the beach in Southwest Michigan

This past week I was invited by Monika Caban, another local photographer, to take part in a series of trash the dress photo shoots on the beach here in Southwest Michigan. The shoots featured beautiful locations in Southwest Michigan along with severalcouples looking for amazing pictures. The great thing about trash the dress portraits is that anyone can do them, you can be recently married or married for many years, all it takes is a desire to capture some incredible images of the two of you together.

While “Trashing the Dress” may sound a bit harsh to some couples you needn’t fear, you can be as adventurous or unadventurous as you’d like and in fact many couples choose not to trash their wedding dress but go for more artistic images instead. Some couples choose to do the shoot to commemorate an anniversary while others do it to make up for a missed opportunity on their wedding day. Regardless of the reason every couple loves having the opportunity to capture beautiful images of themselves

together! This particular trash the dress portrait session took place in downtown Saint Joseph on the beach in Jean Klock Park and featured a couple of amazing photographers from Detroit, Prem & Cherridy of Arising Images! Prem and Cherridy were actually married several years ago and while they did have someone shoot their wedding they did not have an opportunity to go on a

photo walk to capture the beautiful artistic images they really wanted to get on their wedding day so a shoot like this is the perfect opportunity for them to get some incredible images of themselves in Southwest Michgain. We met up for the trash the dress shoot

in downtown Saint Joseph where we found all sorts of neat locations in the alleys throughout the city. After we had exhausted the possibilities in Saint Joe we headed to the beach to do portraits in Jean Klock Park where we shot until sunset. We took some

amazing pictures and had a blast, it was a fantastic group of photographers and I can’t wait to shoot with them again in the future! Check out more Trash the Dress photos in Southwest Michigan here!