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One of your most treasured memories of your wedding is your wedding dress. You will have your photo albums, maybe some dried flowers but what about your dress?

Whether you want to reserve your wedding gown for a daughter or granddaughter to wear, or for that special 5th year anniversary, or just to look at remember that special day, it's important that it is done right.

Without proper preservation your wedding gown could deteriorateate, develop spots or actually change color over time.

It's important to either ask a lot of questions or study the company's methods to make sure your gown will look beautiful for years to come. Some brides think that sealing their gown in a plastic bag and hanging it in their closet is all that's necessary. Some companies charge $ 500 to clean and preserve a wedding gown.

All wedding gowns get dirty. No mater how careful brides are they hem drags around the ground or floor and gets dirty. Even if an anti-perspirant is use there still will be under-arm problems, some visible some not. Make-up can easily transfer onto the dress when taking it on or off. Another area along the top to the bodice where the dress rubs against your chest also can be a problem. That does not count the accidental cake, wine, coffee, soda or other stains that can make a mess of your dress.

Here's what you want to make sure happens to your wedding gown to have it properly preserved. If the company you're thinking about using does not explain this in full, or short-cuts any of these processes steer clear of them. Be careful of the companies that do not fully explain or give you detailed information to their methods, you can not trust that your gown will be properly taken care of or treated properly.

First, when the gown arrives at the company it should be thoroughly hand inspected. The hem, "arm-pits", and top of the bodice should be particularly hand cleaned. After the remaining parts of the dress are inspected for stains, these stains should be removed. This may take various special cleaners depending on the stain.

Your wedding gown should go go through a process call and anti-sugar treatment. This special step is to make sure that any stain made with any sugar substance, like cake, frosting, wine, or soda will be removed and not turn yellow later. Dry-cleaning fluids do not affect sugar and without this step is take the sugar stain will remain and turn yellow later.

The next step is to thoroughly dry-clean the dress. It's called "dry-cleaning" because the cleaning fluid is not water. It can be a variety of different special cleaning fluids.

After dry cleaning the gown should be completed dried. The gown should then be re-inspected again to make sure all stains have been removed and the cleaning process was completely effective.

After inspection your wedding gown should be hand pressed and hand steamed. The pressed gown is then put on a bust form to form out the bodice of the dress. Any area need, shoulders, sleeves, bust will be "stuffed" with acid free tissue paper. The gown is then placed into an acid free box with a display window (so you can see the bodice of your gown). Make sure that the box, and the tissue is acid free. Regular cardboard boxes and regular tissue can chemically react with the fabric of the dress over time and cause discoloration and or deterioration.

The display box should be put into a shipping box and shipped back to you.

Avoid any companies that do not provide each of these steps. Also avoid any company that seals your gown into a box. Sealing can trap moisture in which can cause mold and mildew to form and ruin your wedding dress.

There are two major wedding gown preservation companies that closely follow these procedures.

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Source by Donald Clifton