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Margaret’s Couture Bridal Services

Our Bridal Services

Margaret’s is your best source for couture bridal care. We are experts in cleaning, alterations, pressing, and museum-quality gown preservation. We offer complimentary on-site pick-up and delivery within our route service areas and climate-controlled storage. Please send us your used or dirty gown and your veil, shoes, handbag, or accessories to get award-winning cleaning in our custom-designed facility. We also cater to the vintage-gown-wearing bride to restore or revamp the style. All work is done in-house by our highly qualified team.

Our before and after photo gallery of a few previous success stories shows a collection of impossibly stained yellowed and seemingly irretrievably damaged bridal gowns, cleaned and restored beautifully. Legacy Gown Preservation. It is possible to preserve your wedding gown so that generations of brides may wear it. Museum conservators expect to extend the lifetime of textiles by 200 years by storing them in an acid-free box with acid-free tissue and a cotton muslin liner. These are the basics of our heirloom preservation system after your gown has been meticulously cleaned, inspected under multi-spectrum lighting, and hand-finished.

Vintage Restoration & Storage. Our Restoration Services can reverse many years of yellowing and repair damage on poorly stored gowns and accessories. In addition, Margaret’s can store and keep your gown secure, safe from the hazards of a crowded closet, and hidden from “prying eyes” before the wedding. Following your gown preservation, we offer long-term storage in a climate-controlled environment. We will also open the storage box and refold the gown if needed during storage.

Margaret’s UPS CleanByMail ® Specialty Services. If you reside outside our Southern California pickup and delivery areas, you can ship your gown and accessories to us using UPS. With over 4,900 UPS Store ® locations nationwide, bridal care has never been more convenient. It’s like having 4,900 Margaret’s drop-off locations.

CleanByMail Questions? 858-429-7260 • email: cleanbymail@margarets.com

Bridal Questions? 858-429-7261 • email: bridal@margarets.com

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We Service the Following Bridal Businesses

Alexander McQueen

Andreas’s Fashions, Los Angeles

Bliss Events

Blush Bridal

Bridal Couture by Celia

Brides of San Diego

Carolina Herrera

Casa Blanca

Couture Bride, Las Vegas

Erin Cole

Everafter Events

Galia Lahav

Glamour Closet

Happy Isles

Here Comes the Bride

Jana Ann

Kiki’s Alterations

Kinsley James

L’ezu Bridal Atelier

MD Tailoring

Mon Amie

Monique Lhuillier

Nordstroms

Oscar de la Renta, West Hollywood

Oscar de la Renta, South Coast Plaza

Prevue

Pronovias

Roxie’s Couture Alterations

Ryan and Walter Bridal

Sebastien Luke

The Bustle

The Dress Theory

The Ivory Suite

The White Dress

Velvet Hanger

Vera Wang, Beverly Hills

Victoria Schroeder

Vivienne Westwood

Our Bridal Facilities

Bridal Clean Room

Multi-Spectrum Inspection

Museum-Quality Gown Preservation

Vintage Restoration Our Famous “Split” Gown

The wedding was July 1965. Forty-five years later our customer donated the gown to us to create a demonstration piece. We split it in half, restored one side of it and sewed it back together.

Photos from the wedding album.

Gowns – Before & After Some Margaret’s “Miracles”

Gowns – Before & After

Gowns – Before & After

A Special Restoration Project

Refurbish & Repair a Vintage Costume

The Crusades, 1935, with Loretta Young & Cecil B. DeMille Goals: Repair beadwork, recreate cape & fur

Some History

Our Mission

To be known as the nation’s most accomplished and trusted Bridal and Couture Apparel Cleaner and preservation specialist by living up to our goals of providing true excellence through Five Star Customer Service since 1953.

John with one of today’s delivery vans.

May 1956

John Horst during his early career.