Preserve Your Wedding Day By Preserving Your Wedding Dress
Wedding dresses are bought for one specific day in mind and then hung up in closets for the remainder of the time. Some women purchase a wedding dress for years before their big day and then hang it up after the event is done. When wedding dresses are hung up for so long, they tend to rot and turn yellow. It’s important that a wedding dress is preserved for two reasons:
- First, the condition of the dress is preserved.
- Second, you end up saving space by preserving.
How to do Wedding Dress Preservation
Using the knowledge gained from museum collection and conservation science, the bridal industry is using the information to preserve a woman’s wedding dresses. There are storage techniques that can help with the bride’s needs of preserving her dress. What is the process of wedding dress preservation?
- First, the dress will have to be dry-cleaned.
- Second, it will need to be chemically treated to reduce/eliminate yellowing.
- Third, a thorough stain inspection and cleaning is done.
- Fourth, the dress will need to be pressed, folded and packaged into a sealed container specially designed.
Companies who do wedding dress preservation methods will remove the air from the container the dress will be in. It will be replaced with an inert gas mixture. When the process is complete, the company will hand back the dress in the sealed box. That means the gown can be stored for years to come.
How to preserve a wedding dress depends on the dress fabric itself. Each one will need different cleaning processes. Dresses are folded with the use of special gloves that are able to protect the dress from particles that could damage it. This includes the salt and oil that come from the person’s skin that is doing the folding.
Regular boxes used for storage are not used in the preservation process. These could contain acid that come from the tree even when it comes through the paper processing plant. Instead, special boxes and folding tissues are used.
Plastic containers are often used in the wedding gown preservation process. Any dress part not made of fabric can be hard to preserve. For instance, any metal parts could possibly leave rust stains. Plastic parts could discolor or melt, leaving marks on the dress.
Costs of Preserving a Wedding Gown
If you want a wedding gown preserved, you will have to seek a professional to do this for you. Depending on what you want the company to do for you, you are looking at costs in upwards of $400. One company may provide the containers only. This means the client must take care of the rest of the process. However, other companies will take care of the entire preservation process and guarantee their work for at least 20 years.
Price is also factored by the kind of dress being preserved. If your dress has more parts to it, the price will increase. Make sure you price compare and get feedback about any of the companies.
Remembering Your Day – Forever
Once your dress has been preserved, you know it’s in the same condition as when you wore it. That means if you want to pass your dress down to your children one day, you can do so with little worries about it being worn and/or color faded.
