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Dry clean a wedding dress. How much?

My dress got absolutley trashed at the wedding on sat and is really dirty, I want to keep it for a few years I think so it needs dry cleaning. HAs anybody got any idea how much it will cost? x
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  • Mme.Hibou
    Mme.Hibou Posts: 1,667 Forumite
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    Phone a dry cleaners and ask. It'll probably vary depending where in the country you are.
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  • my dress was full of sequins, beads, u name and ....i put it in the washing machine on a delicate, took it out and scrubbed the black oily bits on the bottom with a nail brush and vanish, put it through another cycle and it came out brand new and it was a big, puffy, full-on dress x
  • shellsuit
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    Never mind that lol, what about the wedding?? How did it go? Any pics?!

    (I haven't missed posts or a thread from you have I?)

    Oh and Congrats!! xxx
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  • shellsuit wrote: »
    Never mind that lol, what about the wedding?? How did it go? Any pics?!

    (I haven't missed posts or a thread from you have I?)

    Oh and Congrats!! xxx

    Just what i was thinking, lol. Congratulations hun :j
  • Horace
    Horace Posts: 14,426 Forumite
    I took a dress to Johnsons Dry Cleaners (used by the local wedding shops) and they charged me around £28 - although it is quite a simple dress with no sequins or beading.
  • shellsuit wrote: »
    Never mind that lol, what about the wedding?? How did it go? Any pics?!

    (I haven't missed posts or a thread from you have I?)

    Oh and Congrats!! xxx

    OOOPPPSSSS Shell sorry I haven't put a thread up, will do it now x
  • shellsuit
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    OOOPPPSSSS Shell sorry I haven't put a thread up, will do it now x

    Can't wait! :D
    Tank fly boss walk jam nitty gritty...
  • HAve done it now shell, not very good at writing things up x
  • mummyyummy wrote: »
    my dress was full of sequins, beads, u name and ....i put it in the washing machine on a delicate, took it out and scrubbed the black oily bits on the bottom with a nail brush and vanish, put it through another cycle and it came out brand new and it was a big, puffy, full-on dress x

    Mine is like that also, I did read on a different forum that somebody else had sone the smae as you but i don't fancy risking it, at keast if it goes wrong in the shop I can sue the !!!!!! off them lol x
  • I think there was a dry cleaners in Collier Row, Essex which advertised it for about £10 as it was near a dress shop. I would advise dry cleaning as opposed to washing. Let me know how much you get it for. :D
    We got married 17th April 2010 !! A wonderful day with my wonderful husband !! :T
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