Getting Your Dress to Your Destination Wedding

Having a destination wedding and trying to figure out how to get your dress there? You have a few options. You can ship it via FedEx so the dress is tracked — but you always run the risk of it getting lost, especially if your destination wedding is held out of the country.

You can also try to arrange with your airline beforehand to use the first class coat closet for your dress. (Just remember that “value” airlines like Southwest do not have this option, unfortunately.) That way your dress is actually in your possession from start to finish, as long as you are able to find a sympathetic flight attendant to help you with proper storage.

We drove - 12 hours - to our wedding, and kept my dress spread out in the backseat. (It was carefully hidden in a garment bag, of course, so the groom did not see it.) Even so, my dress still required steaming when we arrived in New Orleans.

I have a close friend that flew her dress from New York to Florida in an American Airlines first class coat closet — and even though she had the cabinet all to herself, her dress still needed spot-pressing as well. It’s best to check with your hotel or resort to see if they offer dry cleaning services on site — or to at least get a recommendation early and let the cleaners you choose know of the circumstances beforehand.

In our case, as long as we got my dress in to the cleaners by 9 a.m. on Friday, they guaranteed to have it ready by that day’s close of business for our wedding on Saturday. They had known to plan for its arrival several weeks in advance (and my dress wasn’t overly ornate).

- By Robyn Pollman

Posted by Christine | July 25, 2008 | Filed Under Destination Weddings, Planning Tips, The Dress 

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