Wedding Gown Preservation Company- Since 1913

This review is on the wedding gown preservation company called "Wedding Gown Preservation Company -Since 1913

http://www.gownpreservation.com

From afar dress appears to be fine. Up close you will note the wrinkled appearance of both the decorative band and the the tulle is roughed up and not placed flat in the box. It has an angry appearance. Also you will note that the left sleeve is pulled down to a normal stance and the right side is all bunched up.

After the horror story of my wedding gown I debated on if I should have my dress preserved or not. I was under the assumption I may never see the dress again if I let it out of my sight. I mean seriously my dress had went through customs three times and took years off my life prior to my wedding. I didn't get to have much time with my dress and I didn't have all the fun fittings etc...where I could admire myself and really enjoy the process. Most of my friends have done nothing with their dresses. Some have consigned theirs, others have just hung it up in their closet and others have stored it in Rubbermaid only later to open the container and find that their dress had molded! After weighing all the options I decided I wanted the dress preserved. I chose to go with the lady who finally fixed my dress. I had little information except that she had used this company for a long time. Only once I had gotten the dress back did I know where it had went. My dress traveled to New York. Here's the part I have mixed feelings about. My wedding was in August 2012. I made an appointment to drop my dress off at the Seamstresses home shop on Sept 29, 2012. I received my dress back this month Feb 2013! I was originally told it takes 10 weeks from start to finish. Now when I look up the company who did the preservation it says 10 to 15 days??? What??? Believe me I called the lady who set this all up and started asking if my dress still existed. When my dress finally came in I was so happy to finally see my dress again I didn't really take inventory of how it looked in the box until I got it home. I was a little disappointed in that the band on my dress did not appear to be steamed out. It was all wrinkly. I also noticed the sleeves on my dress were just kind of jammed in the box and and were positioned uneven in display. The tulle of my dress appeared to be mashed underneath. When the dress was preserved one of my sequins broke and stuck to the inside of the plastic wrap so there is no getting it out of the preservation window. It looks like a bug at first glance. I paid up front $169.00 for this service. All in all I guess it is better than just hanging the dress in a closet, but at the same time it's those little things that make me wonder...was this dress ever cleaned or was it just shoved in the box. The time frame has me baffled. The sticker on the box shows that the company said they received  my dress in January 2013??? Because I did not directly deal with this vendor I have neither a negative or positive review. 

This is the broken sequin that is stuck to the inside of the  box and looks like a bug. 

This shows the decorative band showing to be creased. In my opinion it does not appear to have been steamed. If anything  maybe an iron was placed on it and creased. Not impressed.