After you've planned the perfect wedding day for months, or even years, it's easy to overlook the few details that come after you say I do. One of those is having your gown perserved. While it seems as easy as dropping the dress off at the dry cleaners, there is more to gown cleaning and preservation than most brides are aware.

At Forever Treasured we provide our clients with the latest and best methods of gown preservation. Our high standards are equaled only by leading museums. We spot remove, clean and perserve each clients gown by hand with the finest preservation material on the market today.

Our company is not a dry cleaner or a cleaning assembly line we are preservation specialists and we clean each gown as if it were our own.

So what makes Forever Treasured different for a dry cleaner?

• First we spot clean your entire gown inside and out, to remove stains, oils and soil.
• Then we perform our specialized wet cleaning process individually based on the age, color and fabric of your gown. Because we want to ensure that the lace, pearls, sequins, and beads on you gown will not melt, discolor, or be damaged in anyway, we use the gentlest, safest, nontoxic, environmentally safe solutions to clean the gown from head to toe inside and out. (In rare cases gowns may be cleaned chemically) Since each gown is unique, we use a combination of cleaning techniques suited to the special needs of each gown. No two gown are treated the same.
• Next, we air dry your wedding gown to protect the beads and sequins from harm and heat.
• After pressing we place the gown in our specially designed, archival, museum preservation box which is acid free, lignan free and buffered. Care is taken to fully stuff the gown with tissues with each fold so permenant creases do not occur over time. Each wedding accesory is also individually wrapped in preservation tissue.
• When the preservation process is completed, the boxed gown is shown to you for final approval. Each gown is occompanied with detailed instructions for future care. We will also explain the dos and donts of storing this treasured wedding momento.

Why not take my wedding gown to the neighborhood dry cleaners?

• Having your wedding gown elaborately preserved may seem like an extravagance, but no bride wants to open her gown 5 or 10 years later and find it yellow, brittle, and still stained.
• While a dry cleaner may be less expensive, few truely understand how to perserve a wedding gown to last for years to come. Most will not guarantee the condition of beads and sequins because standard toxic dry cleaning chemicals have been known to cause discoloration, melt the pearls and glue used to affix these intricate details, and fray aged threads on heirloom gowns.
• In addition, beware of "hermetic ceiling" which means the storage box is covered and sealed in plastic, this method often allows moisture to be trapped in the chamber, which becomes a breeding ground for mold and mildew. As a final step, dry cleaners will often spray your gown with protective sealant, which is not recommended by museum textile conservators.
  

In the end, you spent so much time finding the perfect gown, why not take the time and care to make sure it will remain as stunning as the day you walked down the aisle.