Washing machines & wedding dresses!

[titianmac]

Today i took the brave step ive been trying to avoid of taking my wedding dress to the launderette and bunging it in a machine!!!

I bought it as an ex display bargain but its been swished around the shop so needed a quick spruce before the big day.
The shop i'm having it altered at recommended it washed in the machine at 30c rather than spending a fortune on dry cleaning.
On asking the dry cleaners opinion she told me that basically they would take it happily and charge about 85 but truth be known it would get a 30c wash in a machine (like the shop suggested) as its duchess satin.....
The difference would be the automatic insurance if anything should go wrong- hmmm

4 for the machine & 1 to park outside the launderette but the biggest amount of courage ever OR 85 and someone elses problem.....
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[titianmac]

Ignore the poll - tell me what you think!!!!
All i know so far is that 22 of you have read the post and 3 answered the poll that you'd have paid... Who are you and why?!?!
The dress is absolutely fine and I'm very excited as i get my fitting tomorrow... the only thing wrong with it is that its a bit crinkled but they will be steam pressing it for me anyway so thats fine- after all lets not forget it was the bridal shop who suggested the mad adventute in the first place!!!
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[Louise]

If I was advised by someone in the know to use a washing machine to clean my dress then like you I would. I don't know how places dare charge between 80 -130 to clean a dress.