Globe-trotting couple's travel pics have a common thread: Her wedding dress

JENNIFER SALVAGE'S wedding dress has racked up quite a few frequent-flier miles. Jennifer and her husband, Jeff, pack the dress - a white-stretched-lace-over-jersey number - on their treks across the globe. When the mood strikes, Jennifer goes into bride mode and puts on her wedding getup so Jeff can photograph her.

Jeff has photographed Jennifer in her wedding dress in places ranging from New Zealand to China to Las Vegas and back again. The Medford, N.J., couple compiled these testaments of love - to travel and each other - in a book called One Dress, One Woman, One World.

The Salvages, who have been married for three years, lust to wander. They're both academics - he's a computer-science professor at Drexel, and she's a guidance counselor at Strath Haven High School - leaving their summer breaks for country-hopping.

"If you go as a tourist, it's one thing," Jeff said. "But to pull off these photo shoots, you need to interact with these people in a different way. We get a better understand of the country because of the project that we're working on."

The wedding-dress saga officially began two months after Jeff and Jennifer started dating. He went away on a trip that spanned the globe from Chile to Nepal. "I told her I didn't go to Easter Island because I wanted to save that for our wedding," Jeff said.

That Polynesian island, known for its massive stone-carved heads, was the natural choice when the time came for their literal, rather than hypothetical, nuptials.

Jennifer needed to find a low-maintenance dress that could be stuffed into a backpack. She went to a now-shuttered Ocean City boutique and explained her situation to the flabbergasted shop owner, who suggested the Maggie Sottero Destinations gown.

The day of the wedding, the couple hiked atop a crater where heads were forged and got hitched. Because of Easter Island's terrain, the ceremony was small, and Jeff, a part-time photographer and curator at Two Feet Gallery in Medford, was both groom and official wedding photographer. After the ceremony, Jeff needed more shots to get an "iconic image," prompting Jennifer to pose in different situations around the island.