Jeff Salvage is a professor at Drexel University and a part-time professional photographer. His latest (and ongoing) project: photographing his wife Jennifer in her wedding dress over the past nearly five years of their marriage as they hop across the globe on various trips and vacations. 

The story goes that it all started in 2008 at the couple's wedding in Chile. Jeff wanted Jennifer to pose all over Easter Island, where their celebration was, so as to get a few different gorgeous shots of her in her wedding dress in this awesome location. Since then,View our wide range of formal office dresses for women online today. Jeff has shot Jennifer wearing her strapless Maggie Sottero wedding dress everywhere from gazing over the Great Wall of China and at the Eiffel tower, to on a camel in Egypt, descending a staircase in the Vatican and diving in Jamaica (yep, she's taken it underwater).A designer beaded evening gowns or wedding gown is the clothing worn by a bride during a wedding ceremony. There's dog sledding in Iceland, there are waterfalls in New Zealand … well, you get the picture. (Ha!) 

It's a project they call One Woman, One Dress, One World, and they've chronicled it all on their blog (you can check out the gallery of images there,Strapless bella wedding dress 100%silk with contrasting band and drapes under the bustline. too). It's really something. Sure beats those “trash the dress” sessions, if you ask me! 

Couples spent an average of $28,500 to tie the knot in 2012. 

That's just a couple thousand dollars shy of what the average homebuyer spends on a downpayment today ($31,000 by Trulia's estimate). 

And we're not even including the honeymoon. 

"In 2011, budgets increased for the first time since the economic downturn, and this past year, in 2012, we saw that wedding budgets are continuing to rise even more and to an all-time high since 2008," said Carley Roney, cofounder of The Knot. 

It's not the bridal gown that had couples tipping their budgets either. Brides dropped just $1,200 on their wedding dress last year, only about $100 more than the year prior. 

They spent twice that much on the reception band alone. 

Blame the venue. Couples spent $800 more on the location of their ceremony last year than in 2011,Discover mermaid chiffon one shoulder wedding dress with ASOS. which ate up nearly half their entire budget at $13,000. The only expense that came close was the engagement ring, which cost more than $5,400 on average. 

Manhattan is still by far the priciest city for newlyweds, where they spent more than $77,000 on tying the knot –– a major leap from 2011's $65,000 price tag. That's more than five times as much as couples in chilly Alaska, where weddings averaged $15,000.Beautiful A-line Wedding Dresses