Cleaning Your Wedding Dress! How To Do That.

You didn’t think of it beforehand, but after your wedding, you want to clean your wedding dress. But what if that beautiful dress looks really, really dirty after a day of partying? How do you tackle that without spending hundreds of dollars again?

You Are Married! Congratulations! And Now Quickly Clean That Wedding Dress!

You beamed all day in your beautiful dress and felt really great. But then again, that dress obviously doesn’t look as pretty now as it did the morning before your wedding! Your beautiful dress is probably very dirty at the bottom and at the drag. So how can you clean your wedding dress without spending a lot of money on expensive dry cleaning again?

Don’t panic, you can usually clean that very well yourself. Do this as soon as possible, though, because the longer the dirt sits in the dress, the harder it will be to get it out!

Wedding Dress Cleaning Roadmap

• Fill your bathtub or other large container with lukewarm water
• add a little soap. This may be dish soap, hand soap, baby soap, fine detergent or whatever you have. Do not use harsh detergents with bleach or i.d.
• If you really have stains, use ossegal soap or green soap
• Hang or lay the bottom of your dress in the water and leave it for 24 hours (e.g., you can hang the dress over the edge of your bathtub, leaving only the bottom in the water
• Then, using the shower head with lukewarm water, spray the suds and dirt from the dress
• Let your dress dry hanging on a sturdy hanger (after all, a wet dress is heavy!)
• If you can, hang your dress outside. Then he smells nice and fresh too
• Hang it high enough so it can hang all the way out and dry properly
• Probably your dress is so clean by now, it doesn’t need to go to the dry cleaners anymore
• If the black edge at the bottom of the dress doesn’t come clean, you can ask your seamstress if she will shorten the dress a few millimeters. You then got rid of the dirty edge and now it’s not a big deal if your dress is slightly shorter!
• If your dress is very wrinkled, steam it with a small handheld steamer or with the steam function of your iron. Never hold the iron against the fabric, but always a few inches away
• If you want to store your dress, put it in the breathable sleeve you were given at the store
• If you can, hang your dress in a room where it has plenty of room and hangs nice and free in the cover
• If you don’t have room to hang the dress, place the dress in the sleeve, flat on top of other items

Step-by-step Refreshing Dress

Even though the bottom of your beautiful dress is now nice and clean, you may want to freshen up the top as well. You can get stains out with a wet cloth (at your bridal store they have special stain remover for that too). To refresh your dress, it’s best to hang it outside (make sure it’s securely attached to the hanger and not hanging in the rain!).

• If your dress is hanging, spray some textile freshener on the dress (various brands available, such as Febrèze. Be sure to choose a colorless freshener)
• Let air dry and then smell if you find the dress fresh enough
• If it is still not fresh enough, spray some textile freshener on your dress again and then steam with a small handheld steamer

Good luck with your wedding dress cleaning!

And you really don’t want to try it yourself? Then you can always go to the dry cleaners. Keep in mind that this sometimes costs a lot of money and you don’t get a guarantee on the results.

There are several options in Venlo: https://www.vanhalstomerij.nl/, https://www.stomerij.nl/stomerij-venlo.html, https://www.marnita.nl/.

There is a dry cleaner in Prinsenbeek who specializes in Wedding Dress Cleaning and they also have a pick-up service: https://www.puress.nl/

Have you done everything and would you like our seamstress to take a look at your dress and remove a small edge, for example? Then schedule an appointment now using the following link: https://calendly.com/pippibruidsmode/vervolg-afspraak-langer-pippi-bruidsmode. I will then look at the possibilities with you. You can also send an email to: info@pippibruidsmode.nl.