Restoring the Timeless Beauty of Vintage Wedding Gowns Since 1913.
Museum Quality Restoration
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Don't let your vintage wedding dress become a lost, yellowed and faded memory of one of the most momentous days in your family's history. If your gown continues to age without being treated, there will come a time when the delicate, natural fibers of your gown will become too brittle and broken down to be cleaned and restored. Regardless of whether your wedding dress is 15 years old or if you're reading this while holding the wedding gown of your great, great grandmother, our Wedding Gown Restoration Kit™ can bring back the splendor and glamour of vintage wedding gowns.
We've restored vintage wedding dresses made from every delicate fabric found around the world, even a 150 year old French gown with hand-sewn sawdust pockets in the underarms to make a woman feel fresh throughout the day.
Our time-proven restoration process utilizes the same delicate cleaning methods used by museum curators across the world and it is a method that has been perfected over the 100+ years of offering our restoration service to brides. Order our Wedding Gown Restoration Kit today and cherish your vintage wedding gown for your lifetime and beyond.
Over 3,000,000 brides, past and present have decided that their vintage wedding gown was worth sharing with their next generation, and one day, give them the opportunity to wear it again at their own wedding. Having your wedding gown restored is the only way to ensure it won’t become a faded, forgotten memory of what was the most amazing moment of your life. We’ve perfected our process to make our service safer than taking your gown to your local dry cleaners and our museum quality cleaning process is the most effective in the world in restoring your vintage wedding gown back to its original beauty.
We're the only wedding gown cleaning and preservation service to proudly stand behind our quality service by going beyond a typical lifetime guarantee to offer our brides an industry first 100-year guarantee against future yellowing or staining. This guarantee will not only allow your children to cherish your wedding gown, but also your grandchildren and even great grandchildren.
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Our one-step checkout process allows you to securely and quickly order your kit through our website. To ensure your information is safe, we don't store any of your personal information and our checkout process is protected by the highest level of security from GlobalSign™.
Learn MoreYour kit will contain everything you need to securely pack your gown in our crushproof shipping container and waterproof garment bag. You will also receive your included pre-paid shipping labels along with $500 shipping insurance. You will receive an e-mail notification when your gown arrives and is checked into our system.
Learn MoreYour gown receives a meticulous museum quality cleaning utilizing our exclusive SYSTEMK4 delicate fabric cleaning technology. The last step protects your fabric from future yellowing and will also help protect your gown if is worn again. Your gown and up to 5 additional accessories are then carefully placed on a preservation bust and packaged into your preservation chest.
Learn MoreYour gown is safely and securely shipped back to your home with a 100 year LifeTime+ certificate of guarantee against future yellowing or staining. You get the peace-of-mind in knowing your dress has become a treasured family heirloom to be enjoyed by future generations.
Learn MoreWhen you send in your vintage wedding gown to our team of fabric experts, you get the peace-of-mind in knowing our number one goal is to return your cherished family gown back to the radiant dress it once was when worn on that special day. We understand your wedding gown is a representation of an endearing love and our team treats it like one of their own family heirlooms. It is of the utmost importance that we painstakingly restore your vintage gown by hand while putting your wedding dress through the least amount of stress to the delicate fabrics. Below is an overview of how your vintage gown is lovingly restored.
As soon as your vintage dress arrives at our facility, it is carefully examined by our team of fabric specialists. Each individual fabric, from the bodice to the hem, is identified and cataloged in the system for a specialized treatment. We also examine all embellishments, such as bows and sequins, in order to formulate a restoration plan for these items as well. Not all fabrics are the same, and the team has developed specialized formulations and techniques to ensure your dress will come back to you as vibrant and as beautiful as it was the day it worn.
Dry Cleaning: Our service has invested in Kreussler SYSTEMK4™ German engineered dry cleaning equipment to gently restore the fabrics delicate fabrics found in vintage wedding gowns. What does this mean for your dress? While dry cleaning cannot remove stubborn stains (this happens in step 3), the process will work to remove any mildew or mold that may have accumulated in the fibers of your wedding gown over the years. Dry cleaning temperatures are kept low to ensure any delicate adornments on your gown are safe and your gown will be placed in a mesh dry cleaning bag to keep fabrics safe from pulls or fraying.
Wet Cleaning by Hand: In order to breathe life back into your vintage gown, any overall yellowing of your dress must be addressed. Depending on the fabric type, fabric condition, and the materials comprising your vintage wedding gown, a decision is made as to the proper wet cleaning process and which formulations will work best.
Soaking tubs, Sodium Hyposulfite, Hydrogen Peroxide, Titanium Sulfite, and additional equipment and custom formulations are utilized to eliminate years of yellowing. If a gown is soiled with organic elements such as clay, ground in soil, icing or food, YellowGo™ is incredibly effective in releasing those stains and returning the soiled fabric back to its original beauty.
In this phase of restoration, each and every embellishment is examined and it is determined by the in-house seamstress whether they need to be re-secured to your gown. All sashes and belts that were removed from your gown for cleaning are carefully re-secured to your dress. The facility has a large assortment of beads, buttons, sequins and crystals to select from if any were lost in your home before sending your wedding dress to us.
Another important key to our industry-leading 100 year warranty against future yellowing and staining is carefully securing your vintage gown in the preservation chest after restoration. This process eliminates future fabric creasing and keeps oils, dirt, pollen and other contaminates away from your gown during storage.
When you order, you can also choose to upgrade your Restoration Kit to include a photos, name, and date. What better way to display your vintage wedding dress than including a beautiful photo from that most momentous day! The display chest is placed into the storage chest, which is then placed in a heavy-duty, crush-proof, water resistant corrugated cardboard shipping box and sent back to your home with a signature required for safe delivery.
Our customers are absolutely thrilled with the transformations of their vintage wedding gowns! From a lost memory at the bottom of a forgotten chest in the attic, to a living, breathing family heirloom to be passed down to future generations, we love to hear these stories of gratitude from our customers. Read a few of these before and after wedding gown restoration testimonials by clicking here.
While other companies offer a limited lifetime guarantee, we stand by our service by offering our brides a LifeTime+ 100-year guarantee.
Very minor repairs such as runs, pulls, loose buttons or beadwork are all included. More serious repairs are extra, and you will be contacted to discuss options.
Your order includes 2-way shipping of your dress to our preservation studio where it is beautifully restored and safely back to your home.
By popular demand, we’ve increased the number of extra items from your wedding day you can preserve from three to five. (Shoes, slip & silk bouquet extra)
Nervous about sending in your dress? Don’t be. We provide $500 worth of insurance, so you can rest easy while knowing your gown is being treated like royalty.
Our world class cleaning technology removes both visible and invisible stains from your wedding day and protects your dress against future yellowing.
Our white embossed preservation chest has been newly improved to display more of your gown and protect your dress from the elements.
After you order, you’ll get access to GownTracker™ providing you with status updates as your dress is received, cleaned & preserved and delivered back to your home.
A friend and I both had vintage gowns from the 1950's. She chose Wedding Gown Preservation Co. and was so pleased that I sent mine as well. I received my gown in 4 weeks, beautifully boxed with a personal letter from the company describing the work that had been done.
Enid Strongville, Ohio
After over 39 years of storage in an attic, then the basement, we sent what was basically an orange gown to you in hopes that you could, by some miracle, bring it back to near its original condition. What condition it was returned to us it was so spectacular that it is truly hard to believe it's the same gown.
Nancy Facebook Review
My daughter surprised me with the Wedding Gown Restoration Kit and I couldn't believe my wedding gown that I thought was a lost cause could have ever been brought back to its original beauty. The transformation was amazing and I can't thank their team enough for bringing my gown back to life after all these years
Donna Endwell, NYWhile other companies only offer a lifetime gurantee on their restorations, we go beyond the industry standard to offer our customers a 100 year guarantee against yellowing. As the oldest wedding gown preservation company in the nation, our service will be there to back up our guarantee. That's our promise to our customers.
