Summary: Properly preserving a wedding dress with professional dry cleaning services will keep the gown from yellowing, getting dirty or torn. Keep your wedding dress well-preserved by keeping it in a zip-up bag or box until it can be professionally cleaned with advice from a bridal shop consultant in this free video on wedding dresses.
Jenna Dunn works at Walkers' Eternity Bridal and Prom. She has worked there for more than three years, as well as other bridal stores in Chicago, Ill. before that.read more
"Hi I'm Jenna Dunn at Walkers' Bridal and Prom of Provo, Utah. I'd like to talk to you a little bit about how to preserve your wedding dress after the day. Some different home remedies that you could use might involve purchasing a vacuum bag where you could suck the air out of the bag and then that could preserve. If you are going to be moving around in the first couple years of your marriage. It is fine to put it in a plastic zip up bag. You can also put it in a box. Make sure it is very well and covered. However, some of these methods don't work quite as well and after a time your dress will yellow unless you get it professionally cleaned and preserved. There are different companies that you can actually send your wedding dresses to and they'll preserve it and clean it and send it back to your home through the mail. You also can contact local dry cleaners in your area to see if any of them do offer the preservation service. Most preservation services can range anywhere from $100 to $300 and if your gown is a little bit more designer or contains pure silk materials it can range up to $1000 depending on the style, the cut and the fabric of you dress."
eHow Article: How to Preserve Your Wedding Dress