Wedding Dress Cleaning
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Wedding Dress Cleaning
YOUR WEDDING DRESS PROFESSIONALLY CLEANED
Clearly one of the most important parts of your wedding day was your wedding dress, and without a doubt if you have chosen to keep this special reminder of your day, possibly to pass it down to a daughter or other relative one day, you will want to keep that dress just as beautiful as the day you wore it.
When you look at your wedding dress, both now and in years to come, it will hold so many fond memories and bring such a warm feeling to your heart. You will want to see it in all its original beauty and splendor. The very last thing you want to see when you look at your wedding dress is stains and in ground dirt in the delicate materials. Nor do you want to see damage and discolouration caused by inappropriate cleaning or storage methods.
It is absolutely imperative therefore, that you get your wedding dress cleaned professionally. Many a bride has tried to clean their wedding dress themselves, only to be mortified when they have caused colours to run, or materials to fray at the edges. Even delicate beading can be ruined by inexperienced hands. Wedding dresses must be cleaned with the correct materials and in the correct way, this is not a job for soap, water and elbow grease!
It is necessary for the different parts of the wedding gown to be treated in different ways and with different cleaning products, usually dry cleaning products. What is right for satin may be completely wrong for lace, and areas with a lot of beadwork or sequins will need extra special care as these may become easily dislodged during the wedding dress cleaning process. This is obviously best performed by a professional wedding dress cleaner.
Although immediately after a wedding, the last thing you want to be paying out for is to have your wedding dress cleaned, if you knew of some of the disasters other new brides have had cleaning wedding dresses, you wouldn’t think twice about the relatively inexpensive cost of having a wedding dress cleaned professionally. Time and time again we hear brides tell us ‘I tried to clean my wedding dress, but I ruined it’. Imagine how you would feel if this was you, just because you tried to clean your wedding dress yourself.
It is recommended that you do not see having your wedding dress cleaned as an extra cost you could do without after your wedding, but instead include it in the expected costs of the entire wedding planning process, as having your wedding dress professionally cleaned really is an important part of the wedding too. Imagine how distraught you would be if you were to clean your wedding dress yourself, only to cause irreparable damage to it. You will never replace the wedding dress you used on your big day.
Another thing to take into consideration when having a wedding dress cleaned, or cleaning a wedding dress yourself is the way you store the wedding dress afterwards. It’s just not as simple as putting it in a box. A wedding dress must be stored in a special acid free box with acid free paper to prevent damage and deteriation of the wedding dress caused by pollutants and toxins. Failure to do this correctly can cause the dress to fade or yellow over time. Clearly this is something you want to avoid, and another reason why the reasonably low fee you can have your wedding dress cleaned and professionally stored for is well worth the investment.
It’s not always obvious when your wedding dress needs cleaning, but if you have worn it, despite your very best attempts to keep it clean on your wedding day, it is inevitable that there will be some dust, grease and dirt embedded into the delicate fabrics of your wedding dress. Perhaps you’re thinking ‘Why do I need to get my wedding dress cleaned, it doesn’t really look dirty to me?’ The answer is quite simply, because your wedding dress is incredibly delicate and special. If you do not have your wedding dress cleaned properly and stored carefully, it may react to the atmosphere and discolour. Although your wedding dress may appear clean to you, this is not to say it is really clean. At weddings drinks get spilt, brides sweat, make up rubs off, people stand on your train. It is inevitable that your dress will contain dirt, even if you can not at first see it, and this will damage a wedding dress if not cleaned professionally.
It is extremely important that your wedding dress is not kept in a plastic bag for too long, as even the slightest grain of moisture in such an airless environment can cause mildew to develop on a wedding dress quite quickly. As you will know if you have ever got mildew growing on any fabric before, it is difficult to near impossible to remove the damage this causes. A good wedding dress cleaning company will advise you on this, or supply you with a box which is suitable.
If a stain on your wedding dress is not treated relatively soon after the wedding day, no matter how minor it seems to be, it can quite quickly become ‘set’ into the fabric and can cause permanent marks in your wedding dress. Even invisible marks not cleaned out of a wedding dress will progressively darken over time and oxidize. Once this has happened, they can become extremely difficult, if not impossible to clean from the wedding dress. For this reason alone, professional wedding dress cleaning is so important.
It’s always a good idea to try to take the best care you can of your wedding dress on the day itself, by ensuring that your dress sits the right distance from the floor with the heels you are wearing, avoiding carrying children (they can pull at delicate beading and spill drinks on your wedding dress), having a bustle added to your wedding dress so you can pull your train up once at the wedding reception (this avoids the train being stood on, having things spilt on it etc), be careful when eating and be especially careful when drinking red wine, as everyone knows what a disaster red wine can be for staining any material, but especially a wedding dress.
Despite all these measures you can take, it still cannot be emphasized enough just how important it is that you have your wedding dress cleaned and stored professionally after your wedding, because once the damage is done to a wedding dress it cannot be repaired.
Not only this, but you can have your wedding dress presented back to you in a beautiful decorative storage box which reflects the importance it had on your special day. Much better than a plain old box which may damage your beautiful wedding gown and detract from the outstanding beauty of your wedding dress.
Wedding dress cleaning is an incredibly important part of your wedding. Don’t risk your dress getting damaged, get your wedding dress professionally dry cleaned before putting it into storage.
When you look at your wedding dress, both now and in years to come, it will hold so many fond memories and bring such a warm feeling to your heart. You will want to see it in all its original beauty and splendor. The very last thing you want to see when you look at your wedding dress is stains and in ground dirt in the delicate materials. Nor do you want to see damage and discolouration caused by inappropriate cleaning or storage methods.
It is absolutely imperative therefore, that you get your wedding dress cleaned professionally. Many a bride has tried to clean their wedding dress themselves, only to be mortified when they have caused colours to run, or materials to fray at the edges. Even delicate beading can be ruined by inexperienced hands. Wedding dresses must be cleaned with the correct materials and in the correct way, this is not a job for soap, water and elbow grease!
It is necessary for the different parts of the wedding gown to be treated in different ways and with different cleaning products, usually dry cleaning products. What is right for satin may be completely wrong for lace, and areas with a lot of beadwork or sequins will need extra special care as these may become easily dislodged during the wedding dress cleaning process. This is obviously best performed by a professional wedding dress cleaner.
Although immediately after a wedding, the last thing you want to be paying out for is to have your wedding dress cleaned, if you knew of some of the disasters other new brides have had cleaning wedding dresses, you wouldn’t think twice about the relatively inexpensive cost of having a wedding dress cleaned professionally. Time and time again we hear brides tell us ‘I tried to clean my wedding dress, but I ruined it’. Imagine how you would feel if this was you, just because you tried to clean your wedding dress yourself.
It is recommended that you do not see having your wedding dress cleaned as an extra cost you could do without after your wedding, but instead include it in the expected costs of the entire wedding planning process, as having your wedding dress professionally cleaned really is an important part of the wedding too. Imagine how distraught you would be if you were to clean your wedding dress yourself, only to cause irreparable damage to it. You will never replace the wedding dress you used on your big day.
Another thing to take into consideration when having a wedding dress cleaned, or cleaning a wedding dress yourself is the way you store the wedding dress afterwards. It’s just not as simple as putting it in a box. A wedding dress must be stored in a special acid free box with acid free paper to prevent damage and deteriation of the wedding dress caused by pollutants and toxins. Failure to do this correctly can cause the dress to fade or yellow over time. Clearly this is something you want to avoid, and another reason why the reasonably low fee you can have your wedding dress cleaned and professionally stored for is well worth the investment.
It’s not always obvious when your wedding dress needs cleaning, but if you have worn it, despite your very best attempts to keep it clean on your wedding day, it is inevitable that there will be some dust, grease and dirt embedded into the delicate fabrics of your wedding dress. Perhaps you’re thinking ‘Why do I need to get my wedding dress cleaned, it doesn’t really look dirty to me?’ The answer is quite simply, because your wedding dress is incredibly delicate and special. If you do not have your wedding dress cleaned properly and stored carefully, it may react to the atmosphere and discolour. Although your wedding dress may appear clean to you, this is not to say it is really clean. At weddings drinks get spilt, brides sweat, make up rubs off, people stand on your train. It is inevitable that your dress will contain dirt, even if you can not at first see it, and this will damage a wedding dress if not cleaned professionally.
It is extremely important that your wedding dress is not kept in a plastic bag for too long, as even the slightest grain of moisture in such an airless environment can cause mildew to develop on a wedding dress quite quickly. As you will know if you have ever got mildew growing on any fabric before, it is difficult to near impossible to remove the damage this causes. A good wedding dress cleaning company will advise you on this, or supply you with a box which is suitable.
If a stain on your wedding dress is not treated relatively soon after the wedding day, no matter how minor it seems to be, it can quite quickly become ‘set’ into the fabric and can cause permanent marks in your wedding dress. Even invisible marks not cleaned out of a wedding dress will progressively darken over time and oxidize. Once this has happened, they can become extremely difficult, if not impossible to clean from the wedding dress. For this reason alone, professional wedding dress cleaning is so important.
It’s always a good idea to try to take the best care you can of your wedding dress on the day itself, by ensuring that your dress sits the right distance from the floor with the heels you are wearing, avoiding carrying children (they can pull at delicate beading and spill drinks on your wedding dress), having a bustle added to your wedding dress so you can pull your train up once at the wedding reception (this avoids the train being stood on, having things spilt on it etc), be careful when eating and be especially careful when drinking red wine, as everyone knows what a disaster red wine can be for staining any material, but especially a wedding dress.
Despite all these measures you can take, it still cannot be emphasized enough just how important it is that you have your wedding dress cleaned and stored professionally after your wedding, because once the damage is done to a wedding dress it cannot be repaired.
Not only this, but you can have your wedding dress presented back to you in a beautiful decorative storage box which reflects the importance it had on your special day. Much better than a plain old box which may damage your beautiful wedding gown and detract from the outstanding beauty of your wedding dress.
Wedding dress cleaning is an incredibly important part of your wedding. Don’t risk your dress getting damaged, get your wedding dress professionally dry cleaned before putting it into storage.