Sharon’s Toronto Trash the Dress Session!

A few weeks ago my assistant and I took a trek up to Toronto to reconnect and photograph my past bride Sharon!  We had searched for a few different shooting locations on the internet, and found an amazing site, the old Kodak Building.

It is a favourite shooting spot with many photographers in the Toronto area, and it was a perfectly suiting location for the type of shoot that Sharon wanted to do.  Fast forward to our arrival at the location, only to find that the entrances and window access on the main floor had been recently all boarded up, as in only a few days prior.  What bad luck!

But the adventurous person inside of me wasn’t going to let that stop us, until we found something really unsettling and high tailed it out of there LOL.  Though the windows were all boarded up, there was one board that had been hacked at, and it had an opening that a child could squeeze through.  Though we were a little nervous, we peered inside only to find a warning written on the wall reading “there’s a dead body here on the second floor, you’ve been warned”.  Yep no word of a lie.  And whether or not there actually was a corpse inside we’ll never know, but we weren’t taking any chances, and unfortunately we had to make other arrangements for our shoot.

We ended up at an old factory in Toronto, unfortunately there was no access as we had hoped, but we still decided to continue on with Sharon’s Trash the Dress session.  Everything seemed to be working against us, because the weather was all over the place too.  One minute it was sunny and windy, the next freezing and raining, and the next it was hailing!  Poor Sharon battled the elements, she’s a trooper.  (Bad weather has always followed our endeavours, as it rained on Sharon & Adam’s Engagement Session and Wedding Day, but it’s never stopped us!!)

Our session was cut a little short, with all of the day’s hurdles, and I also didn’t want Sharon to get hypothermia.  This session is to be continued this summer

What I love most about Trash the Dress or Post Wedding Sessions is that you can make them whatever style you like, and you can really take risks, that perhaps you’re not as comfortable taking on your actual wedding day.  You can make the shoot all your own, and let you what you envision really come to life.

Here are a few favourites from the day!