Bride shares $4 Aldi product that transformed her wedding dress
A bride who couldn’t “face” another ridiculous wedding fee has revealed the $4 Aldi product she used to wash her dress at home.
A thrifty bride has transformed her wedding dress using a $4 stain remover from budget supermarket Aldi.
After her big day, the Australian newlywed had been left with a filthy gown but didn’t want to pay the $600 fee quoted by a dry cleaner to get rid of the dust, grass marks and goose poo that had collected on the fabric during the celebrations.
“I had an epically large flouncy gown that had a train at the back,” she wrote on the Mums Who Clean Facebook page.
“We had our reception at a winery cellar door so the bottom of the train had all sorts of black dust, also grass stains and some goose poo from the winery grounds.”
Despite tying the knot five years ago, she said she couldn’t face “parting with that much money” so decided to get to work using a cheap cleaning product from the German superstore.
After doing her research within the group, she attempted to get her dress clean again using Aldi’s Di-San laundry soaker, which costs just $3.75.
Using a bit of elbow grease, she carefully scrubbed each of the marks away before putting the gown in the washing machine on a handwash cycle.
The results were so great, she decided to share them online, stunning other members of the group with the before-and-after photos.
“There are still a small amount of black marks on the bottom but I decided to do this late in the day and didn’t leave it to soak very long,” she said.
“The only issue was some very minor damage to a mesh covering over the corset back from the claws of the crystals but they already had a bit of damage so no drama there.”
She added she was “very pleased” with the result, and many fellow members praised her for the dress looking “brand new”.
“My gosh that dress is absolutely stunning great thinking it looks beautiful,” one said.
“Dry cleaner wouldn’t touch mine cos of the beading so I did it in the bath tub with velvet soap! It turned out perfect!” another wrote.
“Remember to store it in a box lined with acid free tissue paper. That will help it stay like that,” another added.
DIY WEDDING DRESS CLEANS
Earlier this year, influencer Kate Writer shared her b argain wedding dress cleaning trick with news.com.au.
The health and wellness social media star from Long Jetty, New South Wales, was left with a mucky gown after her beautiful nuptials in September 2017. After being quoted a “ridiculous” $1000 to have the $4000 gown professionally cleaned, she bravely decided to clean it herself in her bathtub.
“It was so easy and worked amazingly,” Kate, from Dedikated Lifestyle, told news.com.au. “And it literally cost $15, I have no regrets.”
Kate said she “did my research” before embarking on the mission to clean the mucky dress that had mud and grass caked into the train.
Using Stain Go to target “noticeable stains and marks”, such as fake tan and dirt, and SARD ultra whitening stain remover powder, she set to work to clean the delicate beaded dress.
“The water is pretty gross, but look how much has come out,” she said in a video shared to her Instagram. “All the tan has come off the inside, and the lace at the bottom is white again.
“It’s 100 per cent white again.”
At this stage, Kate then emptied the bath and filled it with clean water to repeat the steps again for a second time.
“It’s come up so nicely. The silk is so white now, beautiful,” she explained, revealing she was moving the water-soaked dress outside to an air dryer on her balcony. However, she made sure it wasn’t in direct sunlight as that could affect the colour.
Once dry – which took several days because there’s so much material – she removed the remaining stubborn grass with tweezers, revealing that was the most frustrating part of the process.
But she was thrilled with the result.
“Everything completely lifted, it was amazing,” she told news.com.au.
Kate, a successful body positive ambassador, said people warned her against the bold hack, but she decided to give it a shot anyway.
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