The wedding plans aren’t finished until arrangements are made for the restoration and preservation of your wedding dress. While many brides have plans for giving away or selling their gowns after the big day, or having Myline’s repurpose it into a lovely cocktail dress, many others look farther down the road at the possibility of passing on their gown to a daughter to wear on her wedding day. Some just want to keep it as a special keepsake and memory of a wonderful day.
If you decide to keep your wedding gown, it’s very important to have it prepared for storage, because simply folding it into a box under the bed isn’t going to truly preserve it. Myline’s offers expert wedding dress restoration and preservation, making its long term storage safe and secure.
Wedding Dress Restoration
Wedding Dress Restoration
You’re probably asking why there is need to restore a new wedding dress that you’ve only worn once. In this case, the restoration part of the wedding dress preservation process is about getting it perfectly cleaned and having any repairs made to it, all before storing. You may have picked up some food stains on your gown during the reception, the hem may have dragged across the dance floor a bit, and a button could have loosened along the way, so our expert repair team will go to work bringing it all back to perfect. Then we’ll use our own highly specialized materials for cleaning, because typical dry cleaning is too harsh and caustic for a wedding gown’s materials.
Wedding Dress
Preservation
Once the restoration and cleaning process is complete, the preservation method begins. We fold the gown using special lofting tissues to support all folds and portions of the dress, like the skirt, sleeves, and bust, and gently settle it into an acid-free box. Needless to say, the sooner you are able to drop your dress off with us, the better job we can perform, before stains set in and environmental elements have their way. Once you receive your wedding dress back, be sure to store it in the appropriate place in your home. A cool, dark place is best, like the top shelf of your bedroom closet for example.
