How did The Trash Your Wedding Dress Event come about? Susan Sanford of Willrich Bridal and Special Events Inc. sent an email with a link to Yvette of  Photography by Dennis & Yvette LLC. The link was about Brides Trashing their dress after the wedding and the photographer capturing pictures that they normally do not have the opportunity to take. So we can not take credit for the idea of trashing the wedding dress photographs. However, doing the event to call attention to the need for screening for breast and cervical cancer was. 

Yvette thought it was an awesome idea and called Susan about doing an event with some of their brides. Knowing that a bride walking though Falls Park always will make people pay attention, they decided to call attention to something that was very important. Yvette's best friend recently had a mastectomy after having a mammogram followed by a biopsy. Although, her friend had her yearly mammogram, she realized that so many women go through life thinking it's not that important. Women today lead busy lives, and sometimes neglect to take the time to do something that could save their own life.

Yvette and Susan decided to take it a step further and make it an annual event for Breast and Cervical Cancer Awareness. It was actually very simple. You contact your past brides and ask them to drag out their wedding gowns for some fun pictures in downtown Greenville on a very busy Memorial Day Weekend. You have a sign staked into the ground that will remind women to visit their doctors, and to make appointments for mammograms.

Following the photo session, a representative from the American Cancer Society will meet them for lunch and  give out information to the women about screening for breast and cervical cancer.

If just one woman sees us or reads about the event, and then gets screened, we have helped.

One last note... We all want a cure for cancer. One day, we all hope there will be. In the meantime, how can you do something about cancer if you don't know you have it.

Please get screened.