Look Your Best For That Fall Wedding

Wedding season is in full swing, and that means you’ll find yourself attending at least one nuptial celebration soon if you haven’t already! Here at Treasured Garment Restoration, we know first hand how stressful it can be making sure you look your best for such an occasion, so we thought we’d give you a few tips.

Get Your Item Cleaned and Pressed

First things first: make sure your clothing is cleaned and pressed properly before you pack.  If you’ve dropped your items off with our sister company, St Croix Cleaners for dry cleaning, they can even fold your dress shirts for you!

How to Dress for a Wedding

Pay attention to the invitation! Semi-formal does not mean business casual, nor is it a license to dress sloppy. Men, make sure you have a nice, well-fitting suit for the occasion while women should be sure to have a dressy, short or long dress. Also, avoid white; that’s the bride’s color!

How to Fold a Suit Jacket for Easy Packing

Here’s a neat tip for traveling men! The method itself is pretty easy, but it’ll take a few tries to master. You want to pop one of the shoulders inside out while holding the suit jacket upright, and fold the outside of the jacket into itself, almost inside out. For a step-by-step with photos to help you along, follow this link over to the Black Lapel style blog.

Keep your Dress Wrinkle Free

For the least amount of worry, using a garment bag is going to be your best bet. If you’ve had your dress dry cleaned (hopefully with us!) we recommend keeping your dress in the dry cleaning bag while traveling as this will help prevent wrinkles. Once you get to your destination, take the dress out, and hang up.  If it has some wrinkles, hang on a hook in the bathroom while you take a shower—the steam will relax most wrinkles.  Also, for any stubborn wrinkles—you can use a hairdryer (on hot) on the reverse side of the fabric to relax them even more!  A normal size garment bag should be able to hold 2 to 3 dresses, meaning you’ll be set no matter what the circumstances.

Finally…

Don’t forget about St Croix Cleaners’ same day service, which is available at a number of our locations for any last-minute garments you need to be cleaned!

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Get a Designer Dress for Less!

Have you found the perfect wedding gown – but it’s a bit out of your price range?  Or perhaps you’d like to buy a cheaper gown, and tailor it to make it your very own?  Or you just don’t plan to preserve your gown and would rather someone else enjoy it too?

To the rescue – PreOwnedWeddingDresses.com!  It’s a unique site to buy and sell wedding gowns – complete with sizes pictures and more.  Find out what your dress is selling for, whether it’s in your size and more:

http://www.preownedweddingdresses.com/dresses/calculator

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Wedding Dress Shopping Tips

The search for your wedding dress can be overwhelming and sometimes frustrating.
Before you go shopping for your wedding dress, check out some of our guidelines to help you in your search.

1. Set your budget. 
Going in without a budget can be a recipe for disaster. You may end up leaving the store spending way more than
you can afford on a dress. Go in with a price in mind and leave a little wiggle room to ensure you’re happy with your purchase.

2. Have an style in mind
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This is when Pinterest can come in handy. Go online and cruise around looking at different styles that interest you.
Then when you go to your appointment you are educated on the look you’re going for. 

3. Buy a dress that fits or is slightly bigger
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Even if you plan on loosing weight, don’t buy a dress that is too small in hopes of dropping a few pounds.
If anything always go bigger. Then if you do loose weight it can always be altered to fit you but adding fabric is difficult.

4. Keep an open mind
More often then not, the style you want may not be the style you end up with. Even if you have a style in mind, stay open to other styles. Other looks may look better on you than you thought!

5. Bring backup

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Most importantly, bring a crew of close friends who will share their honest opinions with you.
Support is vital when choosing the dress for your big day. 

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