Dallas

HOW IT WORKS

Your wedding gown is a keepsake. Proper preservation not only makes storing your gown easier, but also eliminates the risk of fabric yellowing or other damage taking place. Eco-Clean uses the safest most eco-friendly process that avoids chemicals and leaves your wedding dress residue free. The best part? You mail your dress from Dallas and we take care of the rest. Here’s how:

1. You pick a package and place your order
2. We send you a mailing kit (box and tracking included!)
3. You pack up your dress and accessories and mail them to us
4. We clean your dress, do a quality inspection and final boxing
5. You receive your cleaned dress that is preserved for generations to come

PERSONAL TOUCH, PREMIUM PROCESS

At EcoClean, our wet cleaning and pressing teams have over 80 years of combined experience in garment care. We’re based in Austin, but through our mail order service, we can provide our premium process to both Dallas brides and brides across the U.S. Our team will handle your gown as if it was our own, and use our unique eco-friendly process to restore it back to its original state.

Here are the unique steps our team takes to ensure your wedding gown is properly preserved:

• We start by accessing each gown to identify unique fabrics, embellishments, construction and cleaning needed.
• Our team then hand treats stains and removes debris before placing your dress in a specially designed protective mesh bag.
• Dresses are then washed alone with gentle chemical-free detergents and specialized conditioners and hang dried to avoid damaging heat.
• We then meticulously steam and hand press your gown back to it’s pre-wedding look and send photos to you so you can see the full dress and accessories before they are placed in the box.
• Dresses are then placed in a preservation box to minimize wrinkling and ensure an optimal environment for storage.
• Your preserved wedding gown is shipped back to Dallas or anywhere in the U.S. and will arrive on your doorstep in a special shipping box.

FAQ’s

Questions about our wedding gown preservation services? Check out our bride’s most frequently asked questions.

WHAT IS WEDDING DRESS PRESERVATION?

Wedding dress preservation is the process of cleaning and boxing a gown to prepare it for long-term storage and protect it from deterioration. All fabrics have a potential to be be harmed by stress from hanging, moisture, UV Rays, pests, heat, chemical residue, and long-term exposure to foreign substances. Proper preservation starts with stain treatment and washing in a wet cleaning process. After a wedding dress is thoroughly cleaned, it is hand pressed and delicately arranged in a museum quality storage box. Different from dry cleaning, wet cleaning eliminates the possibility of yellowing through time because no chemical based petroleum solvents are used to clean the fabric.

WHAT IS WEDDING DRESS RESTORATION? HOW IS IT DIFFERENT FROM WEDDING DRESS CLEANING?

Wedding dress restoration typically refers to wedding dresses that require additional effort to return them to a pre-wedding condition. Weddings held outdoors in Dallas or outdoor wedding photos often leave dresses with excessive stains or soil. This type of stain along with old stains normally require wedding dress restoration instead of wedding dress preservation.

WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO PRESERVE A WEDDING DRESS?

The best way to preserve a wedding dress is to have it professionally cleaned by a wet cleaner. Preservation involves stain removal, cleaning, hand-pressing and careful placement in a museum quality wedding gown preservation box. Proper preservation requires untreated muslin and acid/lignan-free tissue, bust form, and box that support the garment to protect from permanent fold lines. Due to the delicate nature and construction of wedding gowns, attempting to clean and preserve your gown at home is highly risky.

WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO STORE WEDDING DRESS?

A wedding dress should be stored in an acid free museum quality preservation box after it has been properly cleaned and pressed. The best way to do this is to take it to (or ship it to) a professional wet cleaner who will make sure to remove all stains and debris and use a cleaning method that will leave the fabric residue free. Once your dress is preserved, the storage box should be placed in an environment with no direct sunlight, moisture, or extreme temperatures.

WHERE DO I GET MY WEDDING DRESS CLEANED?

A wedding dress should be cleaned and preserved by an experienced wet cleaner. Many local dry cleaners in Texas send their wedding dresses away to be cleaned by other companies. Wedding dress cleaning by mail is now a very popular option and it allows the bride to be in Dallas, but deal directly with the company cleaning the dress. This gives brides in Texas and across the country to have access to high quality wedding dress preservation.

WHO ARE THE BEST WEDDING DRESS CLEANERS?

EcoClean is one of the largest wet cleaners in the United States. We have been wet cleaning wedding gowns for over 20 years and are regularly voted the best cleaner in Austin. Our wedding dress cleaning and preservation mail order service brings the advantages of wet cleaning wedding dresses to brides throughout Texas and the the entire U.S.

WHERE CAN I FIND WEDDING GOWN PRESERVATION KIT REVIEWS OR WEDDING DRESS PRESERVATION REVIEWS FOR ECOCLEAN?

Here’s what our brides have to say about using EcoClean to preserve their wedding dress.

HOW DO I CLEAN MY WEDDING SHOES?

It is important to properly remove the scuff marks and soil as soon as possible after your wedding to avoid long term damage. Shoes are one of the many wedding accessories that eco-clean can clean and preserve along with your gown. You can choose the package that includes the right number of accessories for you.

HOW CAN I STORE MY ENTIRE WEDDING OUTFIT?

We get it. The look of a Dallas bride is much more than just the dress! EcoClean’s Mail Order Wedding Dress and Preservation Packages include options to clean and preserve accessories so that your entire wedding outfit can be stored together as a keepsake.

THE BOTTOM OF MY WEDDING DRESS IS VERY DIRTY, WHAT CAN I DO?

With the popularity of outdoor weddings and photos in Dallas, heavy soil on the bottom six inches of a wedding gown is common. EcoClean can remove dirt from wedding dress hems. Our wet cleaning process is the very best way to get your entire dress back to pre-wedding perfection.

If you have other questions, please reach out to us at info@ecocleanaustin.com.