dress cleaning and preservation

gabrielyte

Hello Ladies,
Congratulations to you all!!! I hope you all had amazing weddings! love seeing the pictures.
I wanted to ask you, what do you all do in regards to dress cleaning/preservation.  do you use regular cleaners, purchased a kit, use professional gown preservationists? also, do you plan on keeping your dress, selling it, ect?
TIA

michelle11988

I am looking into preserving my big dress after dry cleaning.  The lady who I got my alterations done with runs the alterations out of her dry cleaning business and she said she does preserving as well so I was going to call her later this week as she has been on vacation for a few weeks.  I plan on just keeping my shorter 2nd reception dress, I may try and take out the crinoline in it so I can wear it as a normal short white dress.

rachael7183

I am bringing it back to the boutique I purchased it from, they are going to preserve it and clean it for $275.  Cheaper than other places I looked into....

Nati05

Geez is it that expensive? I have plans on preserving it but I obviously haven't done my research yet haha

brandeeteer

I was just wondering the same thing - I guess I should do some research.

MeganMarie15

When I bought my dress at David's Bridal, they had an offer that my mom bought then, so I just had to box it up and ship it away! 

gabrielyte

MeganMarie,
do you know if the box from David's Bridal can be purchased even if I did not purchase the dress there?  If you don't mind sharing, how much was it?