If you wore a wedding dress to your wedding, you likely want to keep this expensive and important gown for the rest of your life. Or, for many people, at least until you’re able to pass down this wedding dress to someone in your life that you love when it comes time for them to get married. But in order for the dress to be ready for wearing again at a later date, you need to be sure that it’s been properly cleaned and cared for over the years.
To help ensure that this happens, here are three tips for caring for your wedding dress throughout your life.
Get It Professionally Cleaned ASAP
After you purchase and wear your wedding dress for your big day, the first thing that you’ll want to do is make sure that you get the dress properly cleaned before you put it into storage. The sooner you’re able to get your dress cleaned, the easier it will be for it to get completely clean. Because the longer that stains are left to sit on the dress, the more set in those stains will become and the harder it will be for them to be completely removed.
When getting your dress cleaned, consider doing a wedding dress preservation rather than just a standard dry cleaning. This will ensure that the dress is cleaned and packaged for storage in the safest possible ways so that it will be able to last the test of time.
Store It Flat
Whether you choose to get your dress preserved or dry cleaned, when you’re ready to store it, it’s vital that you store it the right way.
While your dress may have come on a hanger, if you’re going to put your wedding dress in storage for years to come, you’ll want to store it flat rather than on a hanger. When sitting on a hanger for a long time, the weight of the dress can pull at the shoulders and other seams, which can weaken the dress.
Keep Your Dress In The Right Environment
Where you store your wedding dress is just as important as how you store it. So once you get a flat box or other flat storage option, make sure you find the right place to put that storage container with your wedding dress inside.
Ideally, you should keep your wedding dress in a cool, dark, and low-humidity environment. By doing this, you’ll be able to keep the dress from being affected by the sun and from developing things like mold or mildew, which can cause the yellowing of a white wedding dress.
If you want to care for your wedding dress throughout your life after your wedding, consider using the tips mentioned above to help you in doing this.
