This article focuses on the Thousand Dollar Dress project of Iowa-based visual artist Sonya Naumann. Her goal was to tour the U.S. and photograph 1,000 people wearing her wedding dress, which her mother bought for $1,000. One of the wearers has been photographed in the operating room of her veterinary clinic, while another while plating video games. Naumann says she wants to start a dialogue about the institution of marriage.