Your exquisite bridal gown is both the focus of your wedding day and the ultimate reflection of your heart, dreams, style, and your hopes for the future.  After the wedding, capture the spirit of this special time by preserving your gown according to archival standards.  Our Bridal Gown Preservation Box is easy to use, affordable, and the only way to protect your investment.

*Long after the ceremony is over and your new life has begun, your gown will be a living heirloom. It will be something to be enjoyed time and time again, passed on to another bride or another generation.

Lace, silk, satin, and other delicate fabrics need proper cleaning and archival protection or the will yellow and deteriorate.  If you cover your gown in dry-cleaning plastic and hang it in a closet, over time your dress will yellow, stretch and develop brown streaks.  Environmental factors such as light, temperature, humidity, and dust as well as containers made from common plastics, cardboard boxes, and glues are harmful to special textiles. “Preserving” your gown in sealed bags or boxes also causes permanent damage to one of your most cherished possessions.  Because textiles, fabrics need to be in an environment where there is air movement, fabrics should not be sealed in airtight plastic bags to prevent damage from moisture condensations.  Since some plastics give off fumes as they decompose, bridal gowns should NOT come in direct contact with them.

Many dry-cleaners and retailers offer ways to “preserve bridal gowns and other precious textiles, but not all are archivally appropriate.

The museum quality Bridal Gown Preservation Box provides the safest environment for your gown.  Roomy enough to accommodate the proper interleaving and “folding” necessary to prepare a gown for long-term storage, made from materials engineered to best deal with the special needs of textiles, and covered with a stylish monogrammed cotton cover whose elegance is matched only by it’s efficient reduction of light exposure, dust and static electricity(all harmful for your gown) Our box does not seal your dress away in a cardboard box with a cake window like so many other “preservation” boxes.  Antique textiles are not preserved like that in museums or archives; why should it be done to your gown?

Our wedding gown preservation service:

Your dress is professionally and properly hand cleaned.  Then sheets of acid-free tissue are placed between all the layers of your dress.  The dress is wrapped in a triple-washed unbleached cotton muslin box liner and placed in a two piece archival textile preservation box.  A cotton muslin cover fits over the box and can be custom monogrammed. Cotton gloves to wear while handling your gown are included along with instructions for storage and repacking your gown should you want to remove it from the box. 

If worn again, it would simply need to be cleaned and folded with new acid free paper.  VFDM would do this for you for a nominal fee.

Pricing:   

Keep in mind that this is “Archival Museum Quality Textile Preservation not traditional preservation.

Your gown will determine the size required.

Large  33x24x8………………………….$305.00

Medium 30x20x6………………………..$280.00

Small 24x23x4………………………….$255.00

NEW:  Muslin bag to hold your wedding day shoes to keep with your gown…….$15.00 

**shipping and handling fee is customer responsibility, price to be given once packaged and ready to ship.

Pricing includes:  hand cleaning, folding and packaging in the honeycomb box with muslin liner, monogramming (3 letter initials and date).

* A deposit of $100 is required when we receive the gown and balance when completed.  VFDM also now offers a 5% discount when paying for the service in full when the gown is received. Not including shipping.

Valley Freeze Dried Memories

4694 S. 775 E.

New Ross, IN 47968

mjgray@valleyfreezedried.com

765-723-1525

1-888-747-1524