How do I ship Wedding Dress?

[Puppmom]

Hopefully, BWW was the right place to post this...

I found someone who wants to buy my dress but I honestly hadn''t thought about how the heck I would ship it! She''s of course getting it cleaned and pressed so I don''t have to worry about wrinkles but I don''t want the poor girl to open the box and see a crumpled up, poorly packed dress.

Any suggestions?

 

[Sabine]

If it is a dress with multiple layers and beading, I would actually consider one of the new flat rate boxes at the post office. I would either fold or roll the dress as best as I could, wrap it in tissue paper, and put it in one of those.

 

[Loves Vintage]

I had purchased a dress off of eBay, which I ultimately did not wear, and it arrived in a big white garbage bag (after it had been folded over maybe 2 times.) It was then put into quite a big box, maybe 2 ft tall, so it did not get too badly squished. So, maybe some white tissue paper (instead of the trash bag, lol) and a big box. I''d use a bigger box so that it does not need to be folded too tightly.

The dress that I had purchased fared quite well in the large box.

 

[neatfreak]

I've shipped a few dresses and IMO you need to get a big flat box (dress shops might have one), try not to fold it more than once or at most twice, and then lay it flat in the box surrounded by tissue. And THEN wrap the tissue in plastic so that in case water gets on the box the dress is fine.

It's not cheap to ship-but it is the right way to do it.

Please do not use the boxes the post office gives away or the flat rate boxes-they are just too small to ship a dress properly unless it's a slinky little number.

 

[Clairitek]

Wrapping in plastic is a MUST! The box my gown came in was pretty damaged but thankfully it was wrapped in plastic so it didn''t get damaged. You''d be amazed what the USPS, FedEx, and UPS can do to a box in transit.

 

[tigian]

When I sold my dress, I layered and lined the ress with acid free tissue paper in a flat dress box. I made it snug so it wouldn''t slip around during transport. Then I put a garbage bag around the box. Then I put it in a box to be shipped by fed-ex.