Dress Care After the Wedding

So I think if you get it cleaned and then keep it in a garment bag in an area that doesn't get damp, and isn't in direct sunlight you should be fine. My mom never had her dress preserved, just kept it in a plastic bag in our basement (after moving it from Long Island to PA!) and when I got engaged and decided I wanted to wear her veil we looked both. Neither had gotten musty, or yellowed, or had any damage after spending 30+ years hanging in a plastic bag. When you take it to the cleaners, just mention that you only want it cleaned.

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Did she just go to a regular dry cleaners?

I never get anything dry cleaned (hubby has done so for shirts and jackets) so professional cleaning is a bit foreign to me. What you are recommending is exactly what I was thinking but I didn't know if I was missing something obvious.

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Yeah it was just a regular dry cleaner! And she just had the dress cleaned, not the veil and that didn't need anything except a steam to make it ready for me to wear

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Awesome thank you!

View Quoted Comment My mom's dress was cleaned at a regular dry cleaners and kept in the same conditions Allison described (plastic bag, dry, dark closet). It was also in great condition when we pulled it out a few months ago, 30 years after the wedding. I couldn't say if it yellowed any or not since her dress was already a dark cream to begin with.

I honestly just took mine to get dry cleaned after and it seemed fine after.