Creative Holbeach photographer Catherine Carter is offering the chance to give that gorgeous wedding dress a spectacular final farewell after the wedding.

Instead of tucking it away in a drawer or at the back of the wardrobe, Catherine will take the dress and its wearer out on location for a wildly romantic photoshoot.

And if the dress gets splattered with mud, ripped or soaked in the process, at least it will have gone out with a bang instead of gently mouldering away.

Catherine said "This photoshoot offers an opportunity for the bride to wear the dress one final time.

"It extends the magic and seems a suitably impressive way to say farewell to the fairytale dress you have always dreamed of.

"The liberating idea that you can break out and be creative and wild with the dress is increasingly popular in the States.

"I have found that while some local people think the wedding dress is sacrosanct, others are very keen on the idea.

"Most of the brides who had booked me to photograph their weddings this summer have asked for this too!"

Single mum Catherine is a new kind of wedding photographer. A former local hairdresser whose children are now 13 and four, she is passionate about taking the stiffness and formality out of portraits and wedding pictures.

She turned her hobby into a full-time business three years ago but has never had a studio.

She has always chosen to shoot on location, either in subjects' own houses or out of doors in wild places.

Catherine said: "When I first began to take wedding photographs everyone was holding up the dress away from the dirt.

"Now the bride will leap into the sea for a great picture.

"Times and attitudes are definitely changing."