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Trash the dress session · Cozumel
In short
Trash the dress session in Cozumel starts at $450: 2 hours on location with a photographer who works in Cozumel, and 60 edited photos delivered to a private gallery within 10 days.
Why choose trash the dress session in Cozumel?
Trash the dress on Cozumel means the gown in clear Caribbean water, and here the water is the reason to come: visibility is high enough that the dress photographs from below as well as from the shore. The catch is that much of that water is a national park built around a reef. A dress drifting in the current, a train trailing over coral or a bride standing on a sea star are exactly what the park rules forbid. The two-hour session is planned over sand rather than reef, on a west-coast beach or at a sandbar, with the photographer in the water with a housing.
Worth knowing about Cozumel
Inside Parque Nacional Arrecifes de Cozumel, CONANP’s visitor rules include no touching the reef, no disturbing marine life and no gloves, knives or rods. At El Cielo, a sandbar where visitors often see sea stars, nobody lifts or poses with one, and the gown stays on open sand. Commercial work with a support crew can also need a CONANP authorisation under the protected-areas regulation, so the session is kept to the couple and one photographer.
What does the session in Cozumel look like?
- Playa El Cielo
- A sandbar with nothing but white sand under the gown, reached by an authorised boat.
- West-coast beach with a sand entry
- Shore access over sand, so the dress can go in and come out without touching rock or reef.
What does trash the dress session in Cozumel include?
- 2 hours of photography after the wedding day, in your wedding attire
- 60 edited photographs in a private online gallery
- Gallery delivered within 10 days
- A location plan with a dry setting first and the water last
- A safety briefing on footing, currents and how the dress behaves when wet
Permits at these locations: Playa El Cielo: CONANP fee of MXN 225 per person per day for Parque Nacional Arrecifes de Cozumel, reached only with CONANP-authorised boats. No sunscreen in the water; commercial work with a crew can need CONANP authorisation.
FAQ — Trash the dress session in Cozumel
Is trash the dress allowed in the Cozumel reef park?
A couple in the water over sand is fine, but Parque Nacional Arrecifes de Cozumel bans touching the reef and disturbing marine life, so the gown never goes over coral or near sea stars. A larger commercial crew can need CONANP authorisation, so the Cozumel session stays small.
Is the dress ruined after a trash-the-dress session on Cozumel?
Usually not. Cozumel’s water is salt water over clean sand, not mud, so a gown that is rinsed in fresh water the same day and dried flat generally survives. Lace and beading can catch on rock, which is one more reason the Cozumel session stays on sand.