Icky Sticky Wedding Dresses?

While employed at my previous workplace, a gorgeous young woman brought her exquisite, pouffy, white, expensive wedding dress in to be drycleaned.  The bill came to $260.  Was she intending to put it away for her daughter's future use?  Make it into a baptismal gown, or crib "covers" as I have heard of others doing?  No.   She was going to "trash it".

"Next summer when the weather is better I'm going to trash it," she stated, paying the bill.

"Huh?" I asked my co-worker after the woman had left.

"Oh," she explained in her syrupy voice, " Trash it?  It's the newest craze...women have someone photograph them as they trash their dress.  You know, stand in water, splash mud on it, whatever...."

"Why did she have it cleaned then?  Only the bottom edge was a bit brown-tinged." 

"So it would be clean for the pictures!"  I could almost hear her whistling "uh duh" under her breath but clearly I did not get it.
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Pray for Maria Pantazopoulos's husband, family, and friends as they mourn the loss of this woman who wanted only to "immortalize her wedding dress" and instead died when her dress, heavy from a brief swim, pulled her into the rapids.