Parkers Cleaners offers free pickup and delivery for wedding gowns and all your day to day dry cleaning needs. Often when I meet a bride to pick up her wedding dress for cleaning and/or preservation, I am told how dirty the hems are.

Although I assure most of the brides that it is normal to have dirty hems and that their wedding dress does not look that bad, I am not sure they believe me.

Dirty hems equal a fun time had.

Last weekend I picked up both Susan and Allison’s wedding dresses. Both wedding dresses were not only similar in appearance, they were similar in the dirty hems. Both brides thought their particular gown looked awful and “had to have been one of the worst I have seen”

The results were fantastic.

Before

After

Melissa was married three weeks ago, and she had already scheduled the next event to wear her wedding dress to- pictures of the couple, in their bridal attire on their first year anniversary.

Melissa knew that she should clean her wedding dress right away. She did not want to put on a dress with stains on the bottom hems.

Melissa knew that she wanted to have her wedding gown preserved, but was uncertain if she should preserve her wedding gown now, or wait until the end of next year?

We advised Melissa to have her wedding gown preserved now. Next year when she is ready to have her pictures taken, our experts will happily remove her wedding gown from the preservation chest, and either press or steam her wedding gown so that it will be ready to be worn.

After her pictures are taken and her wedding gown is cleaned, we will preserve her gown again.

Carrie knew Parkers Cleaners could clean and preserve her wedding dress, but she wasn’t certain if we could help with her repairs.

The pleats on Carrie’s wedding dress run sideways. At one point in the evening, Carrie somehow got caught on her wedding gown and the stitching holding the pleats in place came apart on one of the pleats. She was hoping that we could repair this for her.

When Carrie came back to our Manulife location to inspect her wedding gown she was very pleased with the cleaning and repair our specialists had done.