
Getting married is a monumental event in your life.
Let Janet Davis Cleaners keep the memory alive with wedding gown preservation services.
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Wedding Gown Preservation
Your wedding may only last a day, but you want to be sure the memories last for a lifetime. One of the few tangible items you will have after your wedding day is your wedding gown. To that cause, we are pleased to offer our exclusive wedding gown preservation service, which we call our MuseumCare™ gown preservation
Janet Davis Cleaners has been performing wedding gown services for Detroit and all of Michigan since 1954. Our gown preservation process is similar to how museums store and care for their delicate clothing. Each gown is cared for individually. It will never be mixed with another gown or with regular dry cleaning. Once your gown is clean, we touch it only with white cotton gloves to keep anything from depositing on the gown. After the gown is clean, prior to boxing, we invite you to inspect your gown (we supply white cotton gloves for you so you may closely inspect the gown). Each gown is then packed in an acid-free chest, stuffed with acid-free tissue paper, and supported by an acid-free bust-form. When you come to pick up your gown, we provide you with instructions for the safest keeping of your wedding gown. Every gown preservation is given a written lifetime guarantee.
“Janet Davis Cleaners are miracle workers. Our son’s fiancé had her Mother’s wedding gown from the early 80’s and it was in rough shape with a large stain on the front skirt. They stated the wedding gown probably had never been cleaned and they would do their best. It took three months and the results were nothing short of a miracle. The large stain along with smaller stains were removed. Our son and his fiancé live out of town and when I sent photos they couldn’t believe how beautiful the dress looks. What really makes this extra special is the fact that our soon to be DIL’s Mother passed away several years ago and she wants to make pocket squares for her Dad, as well as her Mom’s father and brothers. We are grateful for the beautiful job Janet Davis Cleaners did to bring joy to our future DIL and her entire family. I highly recommend Janet Davis Cleaners.”
–Megan Petralia
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Lifetime International Guarantee
We stand behind our preservation process. When you have your gown preserved with us, you’ll receive a written guarantee backed by members of the Association of Wedding Gown Specialists (in 500 cities internationally). When your gown is ready to be worn, simply return it to us or any AWGS member. We will inspect and re-press your gown at NO CHARGE.
Our Process
See the steps we take to preserve your wedding gown beautifully.
Step 1: The Inspection
First, before we clean your wedding gown, we perform a close inspection. We check to ensure the care label in the gown applies to the gown (sometimes the care label inside your dress is wrong). We do this by testing a small, inconspicuous part of the gown to make sure the composition and materials of the gown match the label.
Next, we test several beads on the gown to ensure they won’t come off, get damaged, or damage your dress during the cleaning process.
Step 2: Preparation for cleaning
Based on the inspection results from the first step, we will select the best cleaning method (we have several cleaning methods, all on-site, to choose from) for your gown.
For certain methods, all of the bead work must be covered and any flowers and hoops may have to be removed. Any details that have to be removed are meticulously marked so that they may be properly replaced after cleaning.
Step 3: Pre-spotting Treatment
This is where the bulk of the work happens on your wedding dress. All of the dirty areas and spots are meticulously treated prior to cleaning. This step requires an intimate knowledge of fabrics and spot removal chemistry.
A dry cleaning technician will spend an unlimited amount of time on your dress, going over every inch. Not every spot and stain can come out, but no expense is spared in trying.
Step 4: The Cleaning Phase
This is where the magic of the preservation process occurs. In proper preservation, nothing is added to the dress. Instead, the dress is fully cleaned and given an anti-sugar treatment. If the dress isn’t cleaned properly, nothing you do after this step will allow for a proper wedding gown preservation. After your gown is clean, as part of our wedding gown preservation process, your gown is given the white-glove treatment to prevent anything from re-depositing on your wedding gown.
As part of our lifetime international guarantee, if your gown ever yellows, bring it back for re-cleaning at no extra charge.
Step 5: Steaming & Pressing
Your wedding gown will be pressed or steamed to prepare it for storage in the wedding gown preservation chest.
At any time, you may return your gown to us (or any Association of Wedding Gown Specialists member) for repressing for free (once).
Setp 6: Inspect & Reassemble
Lastly, before we place your wedding gown into the preservation chest, we perform a close inspection to ensure all removable stains are gone. We re-attach any flowers or other details that had to be removed prior to cleaning (except for any hoops, they will be placed at the bottom of the preservation chest).
We invite you to view your gown at this point and approve all the work we have done before we place your wedding dress in the preservation chest.
The Final Step: Preservation Chest
Your gown is carefully packed into the correct size preservation fully acid-free (not just pH neutral) chest for your gown. Acid-free tissue paper is packed between the folds in your gown. An acid-free bust form is used to hold the shape of your wedding gown.
All of our wedding gown preservation chests have an acid-free window so that you may view your gown at any time. We also include a pair of white cotton gloves should you open the chest. When you pick up your wedding gown, we will provide you with a written warranty and instructions for the proper storage of your gown.

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Vintage Wedding Dress Transformation
Interested in seeing more comparisons like these? View featured Before & After images like this in our Wedding Dress Gallery.
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