Wedding Gown Preservation Tips

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - June 19, 2014 - PRLog -- There is more to know than just bagging your wedding gown and tossing it in your closet when your not wearing it. Read about some essential tips to preserve the delicate materials and color of your most memorable dress you will ever wear.
Your gown can stay in storage for decades. You can purchase an acid free preservation kit so insects, temperature, UV light from the sun or within your home don’t degrade your gown. The approximate cost is $150. You can pack your gown yourself or let a professional company preserve your gown. Contact Wedding Gown Preservation and receive your garment back in perfect storage. You can select the grade of preservation with Wedding Gown Preservation Company.
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Wedding Gown Storage Tips:
• Clean first: Get your dress professionally cleaned. You may not notice initial stains but in time they can darken and permanently discolor your dress. Your wedding dress preservation specialist or quality dry cleaner will know what to look for and use chemicals and solvents that work best for the specific fabric of your gown.
• Plastic Bags: Don’t store your wedding gown in a polyvinyl chloride plastic bag. Chemicals outgas from plastic over time and this can react with your dress and cause permanent damage.
Garment bags can be used and are the least expensive. There are many places to purchase a Wedding Gown Garment Bag including: My Gowns, Bridal Gown.net and DH Gate
• Moth Balls: Your grand parents somehow loved to use this but we have evolved and you don’t want your dress smelling like camphor. The US Department of Health and Human Services has determined that 1,4-dichlorobenzene is considered a carcinogen.
• Acid-free: Wrap your dress in acid-free non-colored tissue paper for extra protection.
• Boxing your gown: Use acid-free cardboard. But remember that cardboard is not completely acid free. For the best result you will need to replace the cardboard box every five or six years. If you choose a wooden box, like cedar, line the box with fabric or acid-free tissue paper. The acid in the wood may otherwise permanently stain the gown.
Acid free storage box: Foster-Stephens.
Personalized box with the your name or a special message: Heritage Garment Preservation
• Cool and dry: Your dress will live longer in a cool and dry location. Basements can be damp and breed mold. Storage sheds which are not temperature controlled can get hot and humid. Heat or sunlight will discolor your gown often making it yellow. Store your gown in a closet. A cedar closet is best; this will naturally keep moths away.
• Wire hangers: never use them. It can cause the fabric to stretch or tear. Hang it by the loops if you must hang it but for long term use a storage box it.
• Enjoy your gown: Once every many years take your dress out and give it a breather. It is good for your dress just in case there is some trapped moisture or a squirrel and it is nice to hold a memory close to your heart.
Save your memories before they fade.
You can wear your dress again at an anniversary event, give it to your daughter or a very special daughter-in-law. Saving your dress will also save your fond memories.