How to Store Your Wedding Dress

Wedding dresses are very expensive pieces of garment and can cost from many hundreds of pounds to thousands. In fact, prices seem to be getting higher and higher for traditional dresses. If you have purchased a dress, you are sure to want to store it properly and preserve it for many years to come.

Unfortunately, most people tend to put their beloved dresses into a cardboard box or black plastic bin liner and leave it up in the attic. This is the simplest option but also the worse thing that you can do. If you store your wedding dress like this, then it will not last very long!

The first thing to know is that materials like plastic bags and cardboard boxes have natural acidity and tarnishing agents within them. After a period of time, this can breakdown the material fabric of your dress and ruin it. One of the other problems that may occur with your wedding dress is discolouration, again this is due to the tarnishing agents that may be present. The last thing you want to do is to store your dress this way for a few years and then get your dress out to find that it has been ruined!

What you need is a pH neutral or acid-free storage box. These are specifically made so that they are neither acidic or alkaline and therefore termed acid-free. This is the way to preserve your dress properly. It is also the same way museums archive their books and valuable documents. It is the safest way to preserve the integrity of the document. And like museums, you need to use the best storage materials for your dress as it will deteriorate if you do not.

Once you have the correct storage medium, the next thing to consider is where you store your wedding dress. The attic is not ideal as the moisture will certainly ruin your dress in time. You need to keep you dress in a acid-free box and then store the box at room temperature. This is the best way to avoid large temperature fluctuations and excessive moisture that can and certainly will ruin your dress over time.

Get yourself an acid-free wedding dress storage box and then keep it in stored at room temperature, this way your dress will certainly last for years and years!