Our first ‘Trash-the-Dress’ shoot – Billa & Maritza
18 May, 2010 Tags: Billa, Joe Niemand, Maritza, Trash-the-dress, TTD
Category: Lucinda blog, Trash-the-dress, wedding photos 8 Comments 
Initially the concept of a ‘trash-the-dress’ shoot just seemed a bit too ‘glammy and imagy’…and I must admit, I didn’t want to bite. But then I was introduced to the idea of showing your loved one that you are even prepared to trash your dress in order to celebrate your commitment of love…and I thought that sounds good to me, for what do you want to save your dress!?
Billa & Maritza had a proper rainy muddy wedding day, with limited artistic imagery. So she decided to freely flaunt her dress to celebrate their first year of marriage and declare her love anew for her husband and lover. With all the interesting weather we had this season and lots of work in our hands, we kept on postponing the shoot…until we finally got to it…not knowing what would await us…
Personally we’ve postponed so many times, that I started to think that I might have dreamed of this day so much, that it started to daunt on me more and more. But the Word says our father gives us our heart’s desires and this was some spoiling for sure. When we got to the location I planned to use, the river that usually runs in a very deep riverbed, was overflowing it’s banks and shallow pools of clean water have formed everywhere!! I was overjoyed with surprise, adrenaline started to flow and an amazing shoot started to unfold, none of us knowing how far we were prepared to go!! Trust me, the water was ice cold!
When we were done, we felt so blessed and happy and rushed home to get Maritza in a warm bath and her dress in Omo! It was then that this specific song of Joe Niemand played in our cd player and my spirit was moved in a new way. His LOVE album has taken my relationship with God to a new level…I can’t get enough of it! After a lovely warm dinner with Billa & Maritza, I realized that this shoot was more than a ‘trash-the-dress’. It was a chosen couple with a strong LOVE to declare, a photographer being spoiled by her Father and a song in need of visual imagery to make the message even more stronger. Listen, see and feel how He feels about His Bride!!
† Lucinda †
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l'Aquila
oooh Dis soooo mooi!!!… en ook saam met die lied… Many Happy years vir julle twee Bill & Ritz. Awesome foto`s Lucinda. Liefde
Pierré
Wat `n hartroerende fees van kuns en passie! Maritza, so fotogenies… Lucinda jy het jouself oortref! Geluk Billa en Maritza! Julle hou net aan en aan om ander te inspireer!!! Sal graag wil weet wat sê die ontwerper van die fotosessie…
Petrus & Lucinda
Thank you for all the love you put into this project.
It was a wonderful experience and now it’s even more special!
Hi Lucy,
Hierdie is nog mooier as wat jy beskryf het. Is veral mal oor foto’s 20 en 23 se komposisie veral in 20 waar jy die volle weerkaatsing kan sien en 23 omdat dit net genoeg van die weerkaatsing wys om mens te laat fokus op die bruid se gesig. Die oomblik wat jy vasgevang het met no 27 spreek boekdele oor die bruid! Moet sê die herfskleure doen baie vir die mood!
Brilliant!!!
sjoe dis beslis nie net images wat jy vasgevang het nie Lucinda, dis sooo vol emosie en passie!! ek kyk nie net met my oe nie, ek voel dit met my hart! ONGELOOFLIK STUNNING!!
Stunning!!!! Ek het nie woorde nie!
Lucinda, dis stunning en baie spesiaal veral met die musiek van Joe Niemann se woorde by. ‘n Huwelik is beslis baie meer as net ‘n rok en ‘n onthaal. Die dieper en geestelike betekenis en konneksie met Jesus en die huwelik, moet ‘n mens diep gaan delf, om self die nalatenskap van Jesus te be-erwe en jou eie te maak.
Soms moet jy waag sonder om te vrees!
In Jesus KAN ons waag ,sonder om te vrees.
Well done!
Hi Lucinda!
Hierdie is ongelooflik! ‘n Eenheid van musiek, kuns en skoonheid.
Stunning!