wedding dress cleaning options?

gabbagal

Does anyone have good, inexpensive suggestions for what to do with a dress after the wedding? I only spent $250 for the dress at David's Bridal, so I don't want to spend $200-$300 getting it professionally cleaned or more to preserve. It definitely needs some sort of "freshening up" before being zipped up in a garment bag for years, but I don't know the best way to go about it

Samtimes2

Strangly enough my sister put hers in the washing machine on the gentle cycle and it came out good as new. Maybe you can buy the at home dry cleaning thing your throw in the dryer and do that.    

jagore08

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duckie1905

I'm not sure if this is a regional thing, but I live in Chicago and my dress was $100 to clean and preserve.  Wait for coupons and/or sales for local cleaners or bargin for discounts.  It does not have to cost that much money.

junelley

Funny thing, I just read in a wedding book yesterday and like sametimes2 said, it said that a secret that bridal shops do to clean their gowns is to turn the gown inside out and put it in the delicate cycle in the washing machine!  As long as it's nylon based fabric, it should work very well.  I've never tried it, myself (I have no gown, yet), I am just telling you what that popular book says. 

grace_anthony

i wasnt going to pay 350 for that either so i took it to my local dry cleaners and it cost 150 to have it cleaned twice and preserved, they even fixed the bustle that had snapped and the beads that were loose.

gabbagal

thanks for all the feedback/suggestions -Linda aka gabbagal