Dress preservation is important for many reasons. When you invest in your wedding dress, this investment goes far past your wedding day. For generations to come, your dress, if properly preserved, should be just about wedding-wear ready. However, what happens if you have a vintage wedding dress that isn’t adequately maintained?
For Christina Tigani, a recent bride, that’s exactly what happened! Before her second wedding, which she didn’t have a specific dress in mind to wear, she was chatting with her father and sister about her mother, who had passed away in 2018. The idea of wearing her mother’s dress came up organically, leading Christina and her sister to look for the dress to see its condition.
Though not preserved properly and wrinkled and yellowing, Christina was determined to bring the dress back to life. After all, her parents were married in 1968, so the dress needed some love!
She started searching for businesses around her that could help but didn’t find one that could handle the work or required her to ship her dress, which she didn’t want to do. On the verge of attempting to clean it herself, Christina searched the internet and found Owl Cleaners, located about two and a half hours away.
Christina brought the dress in, and Heather and her team took out the wrinkles, removed the yellow staining, and made it look new again! It seemed so unique that some relatives at Christina’s mom’s wedding didn’t even realize it was the same dress!
Even more, Christina’s gown came in missing an embroidered chenille trim on the bottom hem edge, which was super popular in the 1960s and very hard to find. Heather cares immensely about each individual gown, so she went to three stores in search of it and found an entire bolt in the back of a trim bin.
“It [the trim] was an exact match, so I purchased the entire bolt since I knew I would never find it again; they don’t make it anymore. This is the high level of attention that I give every bride. I had to make her gown right and perfect!”
Even more, Christina’s gown came in missing an embroidered chenille trim on the bottom hem edge, which was super popular in the 1960s and very hard to find. Heather cares immensely about each individual gown, so she went to three stores in search of it and found an entire bolt in the back of a trim bin.
“It [the trim] was an exact match, so I purchased the entire bolt since I knew I would never find it again; they don’t make it anymore. This is the high level of attention that I give every bride. I had to make her gown right and perfect!”
