Wedding Dress Maintenance

jennhughes13

How is everyone handling the steaming/pressing of your wedding dress before the wedding?  I had my bridal portraits taken last week so my dress is not a little wrinkled and needs a pick me up.  My wedding is in 30 days so I figured I'd wait until it got closer to get it taken care of.  Do most cleaners steam/press wedding dresses?  What is everyone else doing to get there dress perfect for the wedding?

labro

My salon is handling it. It was a part of my dress purchase package. Once alterations are complete they'll steam and press it and hold it for me until I'm ready to take it to the venue.

Dignity100

I'm doing probably the most nerve-wrecking thing a bride could do; I'm shipping my dress to a place that will deliver and steam/press my gown before my wedding.  After they steam/press it, I have an appointment for them to drop it off, touch it up a little bit and steam out my veil.

If I was not doing this step, I would have had my alterations place steam/press my dress.

rsbloom

My alterations shop is sending it out to be steamed for me.  After I go in for my last fitting, she will send it to get steamed and I pick it up the weekend before the wedding.

jennhughes13

I'm completed with my alterations, which were completed where I bought the dress, David's Bridal, so I will reach out to them and see if they will press it for me.  Thanks for the feedback.  Good luck!

bekt14

My salon is keeping the dress and steaming it for me. I'll pick it up a couple days before the wedding. 

LDay2014

the bridal salon is holding mine until the day before the wedding.  They will steam it that morning for me to pick up.

Easy Peasy.

Emily104

I'm not having it steamed.  It has been hanging the whole time and it's all-over lace with a very small train, so I think it will be okay.

mlynch65

I also got my dress and my bridesmaid dresses at David's Bridal. I have to transport my dress and those of my bridesmaids and flower girl to another state to be pressed before the wedding. It's a free service the offer for purchasing the dresses from them. They say to allow a week, but I don't want to leave anything to chance, so am dropping the dresses off 2 weeks before the wedding.

kschork87

Davids Bridal steamed my dress before I picked it up from alterations. They said that the way they hang it in the bag it should be fine, and to just let the bustle out a few days before the wedding if possible.

mlynch65

Yep mine too. But it's been in that bag for weeks now, bustled no less. I just want it to look pristine on that day. And one of the few things that was "free" for the wedding, I want it. Lol!