Wedding Tip Wednesday - Steam Dresses and Shirts
Everyone wants to look and feel their best on the wedding day. Making sure shirts, pants and dresses are free of wrinkles and creases is one simple way of doing this.
Congratulations! You're engaged! You've probably signed up on a wedding website, put together a planning binder, and googled "where to start wedding planning". That is a WHOLE lot of planning! Well, we are here with some advice and tips about how to stay on track with family photos on your wedding day, to help with this new, exciting, and at times, the overwhelming chapter of your life.
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A short bit of wedding advice... Steam your dresses and shirts BEFORE the wedding day.
If I am your wedding photographer, I am totally there to help you, and I will tell you I have steamed my share of dresses and shirts on wedding days for my couples. But it will make your life, your wedding party's lives, and your photographer’s life a whole lot easier if it is done the day before, the night before or the week before.
No one wants to wear a wrinkly dress or shirt or pants, every one wants to feel their best, and making sure everything is steamed and free of wrinkles and creases is an easy way to do that.
If you or your anyone in your wedding party is travelling for your wedding, keep all clothing hung and laid in a way in the car that will prevent wrinkles (and it getting dirty). If flying in for the wedding, pack clothing loosely in the suitcase so it isn’t forced to get deeper creases in the fabric, and pull it out of the suitcase as soon as you get to your destination.
But for the love of all things sweet (I just made that up) take the time to iron and steam your clothing.
I go the extra mile for my clients, but that doesn’t mean that most photographers do. And I have been that bridesmaid steaming EVERYONE’S dresses the night before the wedding with the steam shower going to relax fabric that can’t be steamed to make sure everyone looks their best.
Use your “I am getting married” card, and appoint someone to be responsible for steaming dresses, suits, shirts, ties, and the veil. You should be enjoying your wedding day, not stressing about how all the dresses are wrinkled.
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