Preserving Your Wedding Dress, Cake, Flowers and Photos

After spending months and months planning your dream wedding, don't just toss out all the beautiful details you've created. You can preserve your wedding details, including your wedding dress, your flowers and the top tier of your wedding cake. And don't forget about your wedding pictures. You need to make sure that you place them in an archival box or album. Read these tips to ensure that you preserve your wedding details correctly so they last forever.

Preserving Your Gown

What it is Preservation provides a means of maintaining the quality and appearance of a gown through customized cleaning and appropriate storage. Methods range from savvy self-storage (in a temperate, dry, dark location) to museum-quality preservation.

How it Works Professional preservationists analyze the fabrics, dyes, weaves, and ornaments of your gown, as well as the composition of stains in order to formulate a customized cleaning plan. In removing invisible soils and other stains from the gown, they remove the potential fabric damage that results when these substances embed in the fabric and undergo chemical reactions. After cleaning, the gown is carefully wrapped in stable archival materials and packaged in an archival Coroplast box (the storage box of choice for most major museums) and should be protected from extreme temperatures, moisture, and exposure to direct sunlight.