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Wedding Trashers: Why Brides Are Destroying Their Dresses

By Izzy Grinspan, Salon. Posted July 5, 2007.


In a kind of rebellion against America's wedding mania, an increasing number of brides are trashing their dresses and having photographers capture these moments of rage.

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Izzy Grinspan edits the features sections of Jewcy. Her work has been published in the Believer, the Forward, and the Philadelphia Weekly.

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