After you spend good money to have your wedding gown cleaned and preserved, you would assume that you had done everything you should to care for your gown and you can relax. Right? Maybe not. There is a great deal of difference between dry-cleaners, especially when it comes to wedding gown care. In particular, silk [...]

The sooner spills or stains on your wedding gown are treated the more likely they will be removed. But occasionally it happens…life slips by and your gown including the stains may be temporarily forgotten. If enough time goes by some of the spills may oxidize into dark orange and brown spots. Scary! This real life [...]

Metal rusts. Unfortunately many wedding gowns have metal backed or metal shank buttons. Consequently rust stains are a common challenge in wedding gown restoration. We recently restored a beautiful 1940′s era wedding gown that had severe rust damage. All of the buttons down the back of the gown had rusted through and left severe rust [...]

We love the beautiful dresses that come into our shop each day. They are all different and each has a story and a unique bride behind it. We are often able to tell quite a bit about that wedding by the wear and tear of the dress itself. Outdoor wedding dresses are notorious for very [...]

We found it definitely pays to persevere when it comes to removing tough stains. We recently received a plea for help from John Ardoin in Louisiana whose daughter had borrowed her cousin’s wedding gown for her wedding. Everything went beautifully, and the dress fit Tina perfectly, but after the wedding the gown had small brown [...]