Cleaning your wedding dress......

claireac

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.

kelda_shelton

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!

strawberries1

Hi all, Kelda may I have the details fo the £35 dry cleaners please? I need one near NW London or Luton.
Thanx.

jenhug

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.

kelda_shelton

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.

Horace

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.

strawberries1

Thanks for replying Kelda. That's a wee way away from me

pretzelnut

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 .