Learn How To Steam A Wedding Dress & Keep It Clean

The wedding ceremony and honeymoon are finally over and you have to clean up all the wedding dress and accessories. Its quiet common for every bride not to want to clean the wedding dress as it probably holds some special memories, of your beautiful once in a lifetime wedding day. However you need to clean your wedding dress so that you can store the gown in a save place. You might also have gotten some fat stains on your gown while you were having your main wedding meal. This article is going to teach you how to steam a wedding dress.

You can not wash your wedding dress the way you wash your other ordinary clothes, You can not just chuck it into the washing machine and ad a bit of Omo... oh no. That will ruin it and it will not look new as well. Steam is the number one cleaning solution for a wedding dress and it keeps the wedding gown in tact.

Why you have to steam a wedding dress

There are mainly four reasons for you to clean your wedding dress. These are:

i) To store the wedding dress so that it can be used in the future by your children or grandchildren. They will also be able to see the beautiful dress that your wore on your spectacular wedding day

ii) Sometimes you buy used wedding dresses or you hire a dress for the occasion. You need to clean it up for health reasons before the wedding day.

iii) The wedding dress is part of your special day and you will want to preserve this memory. Wedding shoes

iv) You have to clean your wedding dress if you want to sell it.

You need to keep your wedding dress in good shape and you need to learn how to steam a wedding dress and also learn how to pack it up nicely. Steaming the wedding dress will make sure that is stays in perfect shapes and maintains the quality of the dress. Do not store a dirty wedding as it will be much more difficult to clean later on.  If you store it just like that, then the old stains can become immovable and poor packaging will result in oxidization, making the dress look a dull yellowy-brown

Most companies that clean clothes do not really know how to clean wedding dresses. Steaming a wedding dress is not difficult and here are some detailed instructions on how to do it.

1. Check for stains, and any damage first.

2. Make sure that all beads, bows. roses or other tiny objects are still tightly fastened on the dress.

3. Use light chemicals to remove any stains

4. Put the dress through a suitably delicate process in pure, unused or freshly distilled, solvent.

5. Ensure that the dress is dried at the correct temperature and for the right amount of time.

6. Check the dress for any remaining stains and repeat the above if necessary.

7. Carefully asses the dress before finishing to judge what methods to use and decide the right sequence to follow.

8. Hand iron the dress from top to bottom taking pains to:

9. Individually iron any frills around the neck line

10. Iron the sleeves using a sleeve board

11. Work down the bodice ironing each panel separately.

12. Iron each layer of the underskirt.Press any layers in the skirt all the way round by hand, stretching any lace work back into place.

13. Complete each layer, first ironing and then steaming folds into place.

14. Iron bows so they are rounded and full, not flat and lifeless.

15. Steam and manipulate any silk roses into their correct shape.

16. Pack sleeves and bows with acid free tissue paper.Use a body former draped with acid free tissue paper to form the body of the dress.

17. Hang the dress to see that it drapes properly and make adjustments where necessary. Wedding vows

18. Pack the dress in a purpose built cover or specially prepared acid free box.