My wedding dress came on a wire hanger with a contoured cardboard insert that is shaped to look a bit like breasts to help the top of the dress hold its shape. The top is illusion lace with cups sewn in and has those fabric armpit "hanging straps" that are pinned to the cardboard so that the weight of the dress is not hanging on the actual shoulder straps at all.
Obviously I'd like to have my dress photographed the day of the wedding (you all know those back lit shots of a white wedding dress hanging in the window), but I am not sure if I should remove the hanger straps (because I want a way to hang/store it after the wedding) and I'm also concerned that hanging it from the shoulder straps would damage it.
My dress is Mikaella 2100.
These photos show a wire hanger and contoured cardboard insert similar to the one my dress is hung on. My dress is hung via the armpit "hanger straps" safety pinned to the cardboard so that there is no weight or tension on the shoulder straps at all.
Does anyone have experience with handling a dress like this, or any ideas of a similar style hanger that might serve the same purpose but be more photogenic? With this dress style, should I not cut out the armpit hanger straps and just hope they stay tucked in throughout the wedding?
