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MY DRESS IS HERE!!! So I may or may not be wearing my wedding dress as I type this post. At first I considered not opening it at all. Who was I kidding!?! I ripped it open like a kid on Christmas morning. First of all, it fits like a glove. I don’t even know if I need alterations.

Second, now what?!? My wedding isn’t until May. What am I supposed to do with her until then?

{Friends: The One With All The Dresses}

I did a little bit of Googling and learned that, depending on the dress, you can either keep your dress stored in a box/bag under your bed or by hanging it. However, you shouldn’t hang your dress for more than six or seven months.

UNDER THE BED STORAGE

• If the dress has beading, pearls, sequins, rhinestones, or anything else that makes it heavy, it needs to be stored flat.
• If the dress has heavy fabric suspended by relatively weak fabric, it is also a good candidate for the “under the bed” treatment. A heavy dress with narrow shoulder straps or a dress with net insets in the bodice are examples of dresses that probably shouldn’t be hung. Basically, you don’t want the weight of the hanging dress to pull it apart.
• Wrap the dress in a white sheet, then store it under the bed. Mine came in a long, flat box, but if you don’t have one, you can pick up all sorts of under-the-bed storage at Target. This will protect the dress from curious kittens and fuzzy little dust bunnies.

HANGING IN A GARMENT BAG

• If your dress is relatively plain, check the fabric content. Natural fibers need to “breathe,” which they cannot do in a synthetic garment bag. A dress of silk, linen, cotton, or wool should be wrapped in a cotton sheet. You can leave a plain, not-too-heavy dress on the hanger.
• If, however, your dress is good old polyester, with little or no trim, it can stay happily on its hanger in a garment bag for seven months. A very heavy dress might start to pull apart after seven months of this treatment, but polyester is remarkably stubborn stuff. A 100% polyester dress with no appliqued trim can be washed in the washing machine and allowed to drip dry, too.
• If your dress has a mixed fiber content, follow the procedure for the most demanding fiber.

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For now I am going to keep her hanging; however, I think the safest bet will be to put her back in her box until the big day. My seamstress is coming out here this weekend to do my first fitting. I’ll be sure to post pictures once I have another person around.

What’d I miss? Any other advice or suggestions regarding pre-wedding dress storage??