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Cleaning your wedding dress......
claireac
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Mine was filthy on the train after my big day and I really didn't want to spend silly money on dry cleaning it. Spoke to my sil whose mum made hers, and her mum washed it on a wool wash in a duvet cover.........so I did mine!! It's spotless (despite it being 7+mths ago) and it's just fine!!
It wasn't a huge dress, but sil's was. It was an Alfred Angelo one.
It wasn't a huge dress, but sil's was. It was an Alfred Angelo one.
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Just as a note. i got my dressed cleaned and from friends/and on here I was expecting about £80 - £100.
However, my mum had asked a local wedding dress shop for advice (where my sister got all her dresses for her wedding from) and she said that for their trial dresses to be cleaned they used a local dry cleaners who they thought was the verybest in the area.. one that is actually just at the end of my mums street and is teeny tiny and somewhere I would never have thought of using for my dress.. and it was only £35!
So perhaps ask you local bridal shop who they use!0 -
Hi all, Kelda may I have the details fo the £35 dry cleaners please? I need one near NW London or Luton.
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my friend used to own a wedding dress shop, she washed all her hire dresses in the machine in a duvet cover, they always came out spotless.0
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strawberries1 wrote: »Hi all, Kelda may I have the details fo the £35 dry cleaners please? I need one near NW London or Luton.
Thanx.
Sorry strawberries - this was in ayrshire, Scotland.0 -
I know that the wedding shops close to me in South Birmingham all go to Johnsons DryCleaners to get their dresses cleaned and they are reasonable - I think I remember correctly that I paid £28 for one of my auction dresses to be cleaned (it had an oily mark down the front).
So try Johnsons - they are everywhere.Semper in faeces profundum variat
Make £5 a day challenge Oct 2014 £126.00/£155
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Thanks for replying Kelda. That's a wee way away from me
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Johnsons crikey - they quoted me upwards of £125 . This was only 3 years ago, they said it could be more depending on how many layers the dress had etc .:TIs thankful to those who have shared their :T
:T fortune with those less fortunate :T
:T than themselves - you know who you are!:T0
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