Re: Trash The Dress!
i think it probably does make a certain kind of sense for gori brides because they never wear their dresses again. and there are SO many styles to pick from when your day does come- somehow, i don't think very many girls wear their mother's dresses again. so what else are you gonna do with it? all my gori friends have theirs packed away and forgotten in their basements. you might as well get a kick ass underwater/riding horses/in the woods photoshoot out of it! and if you don't mess it up too much, get it drycleaned and pack it away again!
i don't know about the burning one though--- what is that symbolic of? my marriage is floating away like the ashes of this dress? i have dreams of being a stuntwoman/pyro? burning things is cool?
as for desi dresses, no way. sitting underwater with a 10 lb dupatta on my head and a 5 lb kaam-wala lehenga on my bottom half, would mean i wouldn't be resurfacing. so i'll pass :p