The day I visited Rosedown Plantation, two brides and two girls in prom dresses were posing for portraits.
The process always interests me, because it's so different from when I had an uncomplicated wedding portrait done in a studio. There's a photographer and often an assistant carrying cameras and a tripod and reflectors, a bridesmaid or two carrying the train and other stuff and the mother of the bride looking a little worried.
My granddaughter is at the age where her friends are getting married, so I asked her about the practicality of walking around a garden wearing your wedding dress. What if it got stained? She said she had wondered about that, too, but she had another question. What do you do with your bridal gown after the wedding? Good question!
What a glorious live oak avenue this is and so expertly composed. I visited Rosedown in high school, and might have been back once. It is one of the most elegant of all the plantation houses. I’d love to go back and photograph it in Spring.
@congaree We toured the house a long time ago, maybe in the 1980's. I think it was closed to the public for a while, then the state bought it and reopened it. I did not go inside this time. Did you ever visit Houmas House? I went there Sunday to see the gardens, but it I decided to go back another time--it was so windy right there on the river that it was hard to walk or hold the camera steady!
Yes as pretty as a setting like this is, and also considering how elaborate the dresses are now, it would be tricky photographing a wedding or a prom here. I still have my wedding dress and I have no idea what will happen to it once I'm gone. I'm pretty sure my granddaughters will want nothing to do with it should they ever get married! I think a lot of young woman actually resell them now- or they'll find a charity that helps young woman who can't afford a dress to have something special but I'm not sure how you find them.
I left my wedding dress behind when I moved after my divorce. I didn’t know what to do with it though I wish I’d kept it now. At my niece’s bridal shower a couple years ago, my sister-in-law used my mom’s wedding gown and her mom’s wedding gown as part of the decorations. The two grandmothers got married around the same time but their dresses were so different. It was fun to see them out of their boxes. Vicki’s mom had passed away the previous summer so it was nice to have that connection and have Barbara remembered at the shower.
April 15th, 2025
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