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How to Preserve a Wedding Gown

From The Detroit Free Press/Knight Ridder Newspapers, appearing as a sidebar to an article by Sarah Sabalos on Wednesday, 7-6-05.

Have the dress cleaned after the honeymoon, at the latest.  Wet cleaning and hand cleaning are best -- your bridal salon may be able to refer you to a specialist who does dry cleaning.  "There are times when have to do all three steps to get a gown clean", said Tripp Penninger of Tripp's Fine Cleaners in Columbia, S.C.  "The fresher the stain, the easier it is to remove".

Beware of set gown-cleaning prices.  Every gown is unique; every gown takes a different amount of time to process and clean, Penninger said.

Make sure you ask the cleaner for a sugar-stain treatment using an ultraviolet light to detect every spot, as invisible champagne or sugar stains (white wine, cake icing) will caramelize and look yellow-brown when you take the dress out of the box in 10 or 20 years.

Inspect the dress after cleaning.  Then make sure the cleaner wraps it in acid-free, archival quality paper and stores it in an acid free box.  Put the box somewhere dry -- "never in an attic, never in a basement, never in an exterior-walled closet or garage", Penninger said.

Don't hang up the gown.  Keep it flat.

Wedding gowns must be protected from light and air but not sealed in an airtight package.  Tripp recommends taking the dress out annually (while wearing cotton gloves), re-fluffing the tissue and refolding the dress along new lines to avoid permanent creases.

A wedding officiant may also be referred to as a:   celebrant, clergy, officiator, officiate, official, pastor, preacher, wedding minister, minister, magistrate, justice of the peace, JP, priest, judge, facilitator, counselor and rabbi.  Rev. Elaine Radloff is a Michigan wedding officiant, MI wedding officiant, (a non-denominational minister) who can officiate your ceremony if you are getting married in Michigan, are having a wedding in Michigan, are having a MI wedding or are wanting to get married in Michigan.  Rev. Elaine will write and perform a wedding ceremony (marriage ceremony) or vows renewal (vow renewals) ceremony with as much of your input as you would like.  Elaine performs indoor weddings and outdoor weddings in Michigan.  Printed ceremony programs are also available. A sample wedding ceremony is included in a packet mailed to you.  Also please remember that getting married online, getting married on the web, or getting married on the Internet, is not legal.  Rev. Elaine Radloff will marry you in person and sign your marriage license so it is a legal marriage, a legal wedding.
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