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About Cleaning
2. Before storing your wedding dress in the box, you should make sure it is clean, and the best way is to take it to a high-quality, professional cleaner who is specializing in wedding attire and evening gowns. But if your wedding dress is very clean after the wedding, there are some useful ways to help you clean it at home.3. First you should make sure which fabric the wedding dress is made of. If it is made of silk, lace or it is a vintage gown, you' better take it to a professional cleaner.
4. You should check your wedding dress completely to see whether it gets any stains, including stains from perspirations, foods, liquids and makeup. If the wedding dress is full-length, the hem would easily get dirt.
5. Before applying a proper cleaning fluid, you should use a white, dry and absorbent cloth to make a gentle cleaning of the stains, and then follow the steps of the fluid. You should separate your wedding dress from other visible section of fabric to avoid discoloring the dress before you apply any liquid or cleaning agent.
6. It is useful to apply hydrogen for wine, sweat and blood stains. Hydrogen peroxide can bleach fabrics, however, you can not make it stay on the dresses are in other colors rather than white. It is best to apply a light spray of hairspray to clean in stains. How you'd better apply a dry cleaning solvent or a mixture of soap and water to clean oily stains.
7. When the stains are almost been blotted up, you should drop a few drops of white vinegar and blot again. Then flush the fabric with water, blot again and then to dry it in a well ventilated place.
8. If you want to clean the hem part, you should remember to soak the hemline in warm water mixed with detergent for a few hours, but you should be careful to keep the rest part of the dress out of the water. Then you should rub the hemline with a toothbrush in the sudsy water to loosen all dirt. Then flush it thoroughly with water.
9. The most important thing is that the wedding dress can not be hanged on the hanger to dry after spot cleaning it, since the wet fabric is very heavy, and the dress could stretch or rip. On the other hand you should place the dress over a clean drying rack, and the rack should be plastic coated or vinyl coated, as splinters from a wooden one could tear the dress or rust from a metal one could stain the dress.
About Preserving
10. If you take as much care as of your wedding dress as you choose it, then you can preserve it as a heirloom generating to your offspring.11. Save the original bag of your wedding dress, or you can take a plastic bag to protect your dress during the route to the cleaner.
12. You should choose a professional dry cleaner, preferably one that specializes in formal gowns. And then you should ask for suggestions from your friends or the bridal shop or seamstress.
13. You should take your wedding dress to the cleaner as soon as you can after your big day.
14. You should tell the cleaner of any stains - a drop of bubbly, a smudge of lipstick from that first kiss - as well as to any ornaments that were glued rather than sewn on (these pieces are prone to fall off during the cleaning process) and to loose stitches. All these information will help you to make sure that your cleaner can give your dress the best care possible.
15. You should require your cleaner to store your wedding dress in a special acid-free box and pack it in acid-free tissue paper. You can also hang the dress by the bodice by sewing straps tore your hat are a bit shorter than the bodice onto the waist, placing on a padded hanger and wrapping in a clean white cotton sheet.
16. You'd better store your wedding dress in a climate of proper temperate, dry air, and out of direct sunlight.
17. You should check your wedding dress each year to see whether there are any discolored areas or missed stains and to allow your dress to "breathe."
