As a bride how do you know what is best for you and your wedding dress? Is it better to have your wedding dress storage box sealed or locked? Should the box be taped closed to allow you access to unbox your gown, or should it be completely closed?
Some wedding dress preservation companies provide double sided tape so you can reseal the box when you’re done checking your dress. Companies that allow you to open and tape your safe box again offer the shortest guarantees. They must. Any time your garment touches and/or exposes it to dirt, dust, body oils, and moisture, you increase your risk of problems.
Once the bride removes her dress from the save box, she can’t help but drag the dress across the floor. Whether it’s carpet or hardwood, the dresser will pick up some dirt, dust, and fibers from the surface. Just touching or touching the dress can transfer body oil, sweat, and makeup onto the dress. If you try on your dress on that exposure is even greater – almost guaranteed. Do you want that to happen?
Here are the crucial tree reasons why you will want to preserve your wedding dress with a company that will lock your wedding dress preservation box.
#1. Lifetime guarantee. The dress is in a controlled environment and cannot be exposed to dirt, dust, makeup, etc.
#2. It keeps bugs out of the box and away from your wedding gown. As you know, insects can crawl through the smallest cracks or holes. Moths, spiders, and even centipedes can get into your clothes and make nests—unless the box is sealed—and not just taped.
# 3. Provides a moisture barrier that keeps moisture in. (Some object to sealing the box, as it traps moisture inside and this can lead to mold or mildew.) When a wedding gown is properly dried after being cleaned and sealed in a preservation box, there is almost no moisture content. Mold or mildew will not grow on a properly dried and sealed wedding dress. In fact, since the moisture content of the air changes greatly from season to season, loosely sealed preservation boxes can allow moisture from the air into the wedding dress. Then as the season changes again, the dress will dry out again.
Sealing your wedding dress in a wedding gown preservation box may take some of the fun out of being able to “play” with your dress, but it’s the only real solution to truly preserving your gown.