Cleaning Your Wedding Dress: A How To
When cleaning your wedding dress, it is important to know what kind of fabric the dress is made out of and to take the dress details into consideration. Depending on the fabric and embellishments, wedding dresses can be washed in a washer, a dryer, or by hand.
To recap, this is my seven-month-old dirty dress:

If your dress is fairly simple and the fabric can take it, you can put your dress in a garment bag or duvet and stick it in your washer on a gentle cycle. My dress had a bit too much beading for this, and there was no way it would fit in my eco-sized washer, so this option wouldn’t work for me.

If you have a sensitive fabric like silk, you can also put your dress in a garment bag and dry clean it at home or do it yourself at a laundromat if it is a large, voluptuous dress. I learned that beading and crystals can actually melt from the chemicals used by professional dry cleaners, which put me further off from using a dry cleaner here. There was no way I was paying for someone here to wash my dress by hand either!
The easy option for cleaning your wedding dress used by many women is to spot treat only the stains without washing the rest of the dress. My mother used the Dryel® On the Go Stain Pen to treat all the stains on my sister’s wedding dress, but I really had a lot of area to cover for this method of stain removal. Some of the stains were pretty far up the train in the back, and parts of the lace were positively ...