It's a dream come true... Designer Wedding Dresses at Affordable Prices.Puritan Cleaners has had the pleasure of helping brides and grooms look their very best on their special day since 1937. We look forward to serving you and your wedding party! In over 75 years of caring for brides in the Richmond area, we’ve had the pleasure of preparing gowns from designers like Vera Wang, Alexander McQueen, Christian Siriano, Alfred Angelo, Monique Lhuiller, and so many more. Our staff is dedicated to helping you and your bridal party look your best! This service is best if your gown is new and spot free. Heat can set spots and turn them into stains, so if your dress is vintage we recommend having it cleaned before pressing for the best results! Our cleaning is done locally using the strictest standards of quality. Targeted spot treatment is included in the cleaning process of your gown ensuring that your dress will look its best. Cleaning methods include dry cleaning and wet cleaning (a hybrid of dry cleaning that uses fabric specific conditioners);

our experts can offer suggestions for the best result based on your specific dress. We recommend having your dress cleaned as soon after the wedding as possible to avoid any spots from your celebration setting in the fabric. Our Alterations Specialists can consult with you to decide how to approach any changes you’d like to make to your gown. Each gown is unique and some may require more work time to alter than others. Our advice is to consult an Alterations Specialist right after you purchase your dress. Whether your dress is a vintage heirloom or has suffered smoke damage, we have the best team in Richmond for garment restoration. We can help restore your gown to its fullest glory. If you would like to preserve your dress for future generations, our Prestige Preservation service may be right for you! Using state of the art nitrogen based technology, we clean and press your gown before neatly packaging in a preservation chamber. Since oxygen and humidity can cause yellowing over time, we remove the oxygen from the chamber and replace it with nitrogen.

The nitrogen is a neutral gas that will keep your gown looking fresh for years to come. Buy Asus Laptop Battery Online IndiaWorried about what your gown may look like inside the preservation box? What Colors Go With Sage Green CurtainsOur chambers are built with a window so anytime you are feeling sentimental, you can steal a look at your beautifully preserved gown. Lowes Outdoor Living Patio FurnitureWe can even preserve your veil or other accessories! We provide a lifetime guarantee for all our preservations. Our recommendation is to store your preserved gown in a place you would store your photos; a place free from drastic temperature changes. An interior closet works well! If you have any further questions stop by one of locations, give us a call, or send us an email!

We’re here for you!Welcome to Jeanette's Bride! We carry designers such as Victor Harper, Simone Carvalli, Impression, DaVinci, Lazaro, Legends by Romona Keveza, Cristiano Lucci, Marisa, and Yumi Katsura. Jeanette's friendly and professional consultants have been making "Perfect Weddings" happen for 39 years... We're 20 minutes west of the Beltway and definitely worth the trip.Explore Eyptian Wedding, Kiva Wedding, and more!Egyptian WeddingBuy Wedding DressAm In LoveEgyptIn LoveWedding DresssesI AmPeopleDressesStyleWeddingLoveThe O'jaysReader Allie submitted the following to Ask Unclutterer: I’ve been enjoying (and learning from) Unclutterer for quite some time, and am now downsizing from 1800 sq ft in a big city to 1000 sq ft on a lake in the country. Of the few things that I am not ready to unclutter, my wedding dress is one of them. After our wedding, I had my dress professionally cleaned and boxed, but the box is HUGE and much too large for our new wee cottage.

Do you have any suggestions for how I could store my wedding dress properly with a smaller footprint? Perhaps a very good quality garment bag? Any advice you have for me would be so gratefully received. What to do with a wedding dress is often a polarizing topic. It charges up emotions in people who are married, people who have been married but aren’t currently, and even people who aren’t married but have inherited their mothers’ gowns and/or their grandmothers’ gowns. I’ve joked with other professional organizers that the first rule of professional organizing is not discussing wedding gowns with clients. It’s a topic I like to avoid without exception.I’m making the exception to my normal rule of not writing about wedding dresses because you have already decided to keep your dress and you are secure in this decision. I’m still crossing my fingers as I type, however, in hopes of not offending you. Let me tell you about my dress and the path it has taken, which will hopefully be beneficial to you as you make your decision.

The first thing you need to know is that I had a lot of fun at my wedding reception. By the time the celebration was over, I had chocolate icing smeared on the front of my dress (not sure how this happened), wine and other drinks spilled on the back of it (accidentally, by guests), and a good rip in the bottom hem (a mishap I had on the dance floor). The dry cleaner did what he could to save the gown, but there was no way he could have made it pristine. I didn’t even pay him to fix the hem. He cleaned it and put it into a moth-resistant garment bag and I was okay with this. I had wanted to be a part of the Trash the Dress project so the dress didn’t need to be perfect, but the timing never worked out for the photo shoot to happen. As a result, my dress continued to hang in the closet in its special bag for years, also taking up a good amount of space. When we moved out of our previous house in March, I found that my dress was covered in moth larvae. In its special moth-resistant bag, in my closet that was very clean and full of lavender sachets and cedar chips, it was no match for hungry hungry moths.

I had my dress dry cleaned again and boxed — stains, rips, moth holes and all. Now, my intention is to have the good pieces cut up and recycled into about two dozen handkerchiefs that I plan to give as wedding gifts to nieces, close friends, future daughter-in-law, etc. If you get a professional garment bag for your dress, be sure to open the bag and check on your dress every month. Also, constantly stock it with fresh cedar and lavender sachets. The professional moth-resistant garment bag is key because if you leave it in a regular dry cleaning bag the bag will disintegrate and stain the dress. Personally, I think you should keep it in the large box. Since you enjoy keeping it, choose to get rid of something else in your home that matters less to you. Every six months or so put new cedar chips and lavender sachets in the box and check it out to make sure it’s okay. The box is not fully critter proof, but so far the box has been much better than the moth-resistant garment bag I paid big bucks for that didn’t work.

If you’re a millionaire, consider encasing the wedding dress box in concrete and steel and unobtanium and submerge it in the ocean like a submarine … although I wouldn’t even guarantee pesky moths couldn’t find it there … If at some point you change your mind and choose to get rid of it, consider: Thank you, Allie, for submitting your question for our Ask Unclutterer column. Be sure to check the comments for even more suggestions from our readers, and good luck with your dress storage. Do you have a question relating to organizing, cleaning, home and office projects, productivity, or any problems you think the Unclutterer team could help you solve? To submit your questions to Ask Unclutterer, go to our contact page and type your question in the content field. Please list the subject of your e-mail as “Ask Unclutterer.” If you feel comfortable sharing images of the spaces that trouble you, let us know about them. The more information we have about your specific issue, the better.