Your Dream Day is an authorized dealer for the Wedding Gown Preservation Company, and we offer gown preservation for $189, which includes veil, dress, and up to 3 select accessories for non YDD clients. (Our wedding planning clients get 25% off this service.) Turnaround time is 4 to 8 weeks and it also includes cleaning of the dress, the dress presented in a sealed box and a white protective box with carrying handle to protect it from light. (I have yet to find a dry cleaner in Cincinnati that can beat that price, and it's guaranteed for up to 20 years against yellowing!) Most dry cleaners in our area will range in price from $225 to $400 for this service.
(This is what the box the dress comes in looks like -- sorry about the stock photo but it's better than mine would be! I have a real one at the office.) Last year, I actually travelled to their facility in Endicott, NY (a town of about 10,000 residents) and it's amazing the process that they do to make the gowns look flawless. I had a wedding that we planned there so I was able to incorporate it into the trip.
You can also preserve your wedding bouquet after the big day. YDD is an easy ship partner for Freeze Frame, so the night of our client's weddings we actually take the bride's bouquet with us that night. It is shipped out Fedex first thing Monday morning to Freeze Frame, along with a copy of the invitation, program, napkin, groom's boutonniere, and anything else that might look good in a shadowbox. The drying process takes about 4 weeks. The sooner it is sent after the wedding day the more likely it is to look exactly how it did on the actual wedding day once it's dried. Once the drying process is complete (typically four weeks), you can design your own shadowbox, jewelry, ornaments, or whatever memorabilia you like to remember your wedding day, directly with Freeze Frame. Non YDD clients can drop off their bouquets by appointment to our offices in Dayton and Cincinnati or to a participating florist as well should the dreamgirls not be at your actual wedding festivities.A deposit is required and is based on the number of blooms in your bouquet. Prices for the actual preservation are all over the board -- a basic shadowbox (below) with your bouquet only will run about $250 to $400, and depends on the size of your bouquet.
A box with your invitation, program, or other mementos will likely be much larger (a square or a rectangle) and will range between $500 to $1000. The most expensive one I've ever had a client purchase was $850 and it was a large rectangular shadowbox with her save the date, program, invitation, bouquet, favor and her groom's boutonniere.
And you can go back and do this years after your wedding ... I am taking my dried up, shrivelled up bouquet to them and they are going to make it into a piece of jewelry (see below) for me. How cool is that! For me, it'll be a large brooch.
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