Your wedding day is one of the most important events
of your life and a day for keeping memories that you will cherish forever.
Your wedding gown should receive the same care and
safekeeping as your memories.
Prestige Cleaners can clean your gown to its original
beauty and store it for future generations.
Professional Tailoring
Prestige Cleaners is available to help with any alterations you may need for
your special gown. Our professional tailors and seamstresses are available
to help with replacing zippers, buttons, and raising or lowering hems. Our
fitting rooms are at your disposal, and our professional staff is waiting
to help in any way possible.
Wearing Your Mother’s Gown
It is a special honor for many brides to be able to wear an heirloom bridal
gown on their wedding day. But sometimes these gowns may need some individual
attention and color restoration before the wedding.
Prestige Cleaners hand cleans your special gown, reinforces the seams,
and reattaches any beads and other embellishments where needed. To
prevent any damage to the fabric or dye, only an environmentally safe
solution is used to clean the perspiration and other stains. Even if
your family gown is poorly preserved, we can restore it, replacing
missing fabric and ornamentation. In many cases, your gown can be restored
to its exact, original beauty.
Preserving Memories
Bridal gowns represent a significant financial investment, and many brides
and their families want to store and protect their gowns for future generations.
We understand the importance of preservation and restoration better than
most. And we can protect and preserve your gown for the next generation of
brides. Let Prestige Cleaners help preserve your wedding gown and your memories.
Trusting the important task of preserving and restoring your bridal
gown is a major step, and one that should not be taken without some
careful considerations. Whether you entrust your gown to Prestige Cleaners
or someone else, consider these critical points:
• A company should be responsible for any damage to your gown
while it is in their care, so, never sign anything that limits their
liability.
• Traditional dry cleaning methods can destroy many of the decorative
trims on wedding gowns. Expect to receive a guarantee against damage
to beads, sequins, or other trims.
• Obtain a written guarantee that invisible stains such as perspiration,
sugar, and champagne will be completely removed.
• Plastic can damage your gown, so never seal it in plastic.
Also, make sure that you periodically remove your gown from its storage
box and air it out.
• Be relentless in researching box and packaging solutions.
Some packaging that claims to be acid-free may only deceive the pH
balance by adding harmful alkaline elements to it. After a while, an
ordinary box actually yellows and “burns” a gown, leaving
dark brown streaks wherever the fabric came in contact with it.
• The box or garment bag should be properly sized. Tissue paper
and storage box must be acid-free, and make sure to inspect your gown
prior to boxing or sealing.
Preparation and Preservation
Our professional preservation and restoration process includes removal of a
variety of stains such as soda, , dry cleaning methods cannot dissolve sugar
and it caramelizes over a period of time, turning into unattractive brown
stains. Salt from perspiration stains also remains and tends to deteriorate
fabric. Prestige Cleaners uses a special formula to dissolve sugar and provide
an anti-oxidation treatment. Other body oils and cosmetics are removed at
this time as well.
Only when the gown is completely cleaned does the final process of
preservation take place. Prestige Cleaners can place your gown in a
premium quality box with an acid-free window for viewing. This box
is designed so your gown will not shift when stored in any position.
Also available is a Tyvek garment bag designed to hang in a closet.
Association of Wedding Gown Specialists
As a licensed lab recognized by the Association of Wedding Gown Specialists,
Prestige Cleaners offers a level of excellent service seldom found in
the cleaning industry. We provide free consultation and the security
of knowing your gown is safe because it never leaves our processing
facility. And most importantly, your gown will be restored to like new
condition.
Wedding Day Emergencies
Your wedding day should be perfect. But in case of an emergency, such as a
torn seam or a lost button or bead, have your wedding consultant, mother,
or maid of honor standing by with an emergency “fix-it “ kit
of safety pins and sticky tape.
In case of accidental spills, it is best to leave the stain alone
until professional cleaning is possible. If you must do something,
dabbing with cool water can clean water-soluble stains such as coffee.
Club soda can clean mud, blood, or tea. This type of cleaning is not
recommended for silks, rayon, or velvets and their derivatives as water
can cause permanent spotting.
Remember, you can always trust Prestige Cleaners to restore and preserve
your gown and keep it safe, like the memory of your wedding day.
We Do Even More
New brides often receive linen as wedding gifts. To insure proper care that
will make your linens last into the next generation of brides, have them
cleaned immediately after use to prevent stains from becoming permanent.
A treasure can be a priceless gift passed from one generation to another.
It can be great grandmother’s handcrafted quilt or grandmother’s
table linen. At Prestige Cleaners we know how to care for your precious
heirlooms. We clean, block, and hand finish your keepsakes. They are
hand rolled and carefully hung or folded. We know how important it
is to preserve your special memories and our professional staff cares
for your items as if they were our own.
Gift Registry
Include Prestige Cleaners in your gift registry. A gift certificate or monetary
contribution to the cleaning and preservation of your gown will be a gift
that will be appreciated for years to come. We offer gift certificates for
cleaning and preservation services in addition to online gift certificate
purchases on our web site
