Posted by Ashley Abboud on Wed, Oct 19, 2011 @ 08:02 PM
Meet Kimberly Wehrbein, designer for Omaha Lace Cleaners. An honors graduate of the University of Nebraska Textile and Design College, Kimberly has been working as a bridal design consultant for over 20 years. Her passion is your complete satisfaction in designing, redesigning or altering your gown.
Referring to her brides as “blessings”, Kimberly told a story of a mother calling, desperate for help with her daughter’s gown. Her daughter had just returned from serving in Afghanistan, and her gown no longer fit properly. Having less than a week before the big day, Kimberly immediately booked the appointment and worked diligently to ensure the gown was ready. The daughter, mother and sister of the bride were so thrilled, they not only hugged Kimberly many times over, they attempted to tip her for her services! Refusing the additional payment, Kimberly told them that their happiness was all the thanks she needed.
Kimberly’s repertoire includes vintage gown restoration, flower girl dresses, custom veil and jewelry design. Another beautiful example of Kimberly’s talent was a bride who wanted to wear her mother’s gown for her own wedding, but wanted to customize it to fit her style. Kimberly took the original gown, with long sleeves and a full skirt, and turned it into a beautifully chic strapless gown while preserving the delicate lace detail on the bodices of the dress. The bride and her mother were so thrilled, they sent Kimberly photos of the original gown on the mother’s wedding day, and then the new bride posing with her mother in the redesigned gown.
These are just small examples of the care and attention to detail you can count on with Designer Kimberly Wehrbein.
Prior to Kimberly working with Omaha Lace Cleaners, Kimberly and her co-workers would refer brides to Omaha Lace exclusively for their gown care. Omaha Lace Cleaners and Kimberly are honored to be able to offer you the best in cleaning, pressing, altering and preserving your special gown. Let our team of experts take care of you and your investment. Call today to book your appointment, we look forward to working with you!
Omaha Lace Cleaners is the sister company to Fashion Cleaners, and is Nebraska and Iowa’s only member of the Association of Wedding Gown Specialists, serving Omaha’s brides since 1922.
Omaha Lace Cleaners
5007 Leavenworth Street
Omaha, Ne 68106
402-556-1522
Omaha Lace Cleaners
2528 S. 130th Avenue
Omaha, Ne 68144
402-330-1812
www.omahalacecleaners.com
Posted by Ashley Abboud on Fri, Jan 21, 2011 @ 01:59 PM
Omaha Lace Cleaners offers our customers the ability to maintain a “green” conscience on their wedding day.
When you choose Omaha Lace Cleaners to give your beautiful gown the care it deserves, you also choose to help safeguard the future of our planet.
We asked Carbonfund.org, the leading nonprofit provider of carbon offsets and climate solutions, to help us calculate the carbon footprint of the process of cleaning your wedding gown and preserving your wedding gown. We included everything that goes into the process of cleaning and preserving your wedding gown from your trip to and from Omaha Lace Cleaners to the cleaning procedures to the wedding chest’s manufacture.
We account for the carbon footprint of your wedding gown preservation with our donations to Carbonfund.org, the leading nonprofit carbon offset and climate solutions organization, and Carbonfund.org uses our donations to help fund reforestation projects worldwide.
So feel confident when you take your dress to Omaha Lace Cleaners, we practice eco-friendly cleaning in all aspects of our work. We are Omaha’s only* eco-friendly cleaner.
*(Fashion Cleaners is our sister company)
Posted by Ashley Abboud on Fri, Jan 14, 2011 @ 03:06 PM
I knew my mother didn’t care about her wedding dress, because every time I asked her where it was she’d say in some bag downstairs. I didn’t realize the extent of her uncaring ways until I actually fished that piece of neglected fabric out of a bag that was old long before 1965. I couldn’t believe how hideous the bag was and how crumpled the dress had been for over 40 years. So for my pet project at work this was a perfect piece to showcase what Omaha Lace Cleaners could do. I took it into my boss and told him that we were going to restore this gown and put it on display for all to see our handy work, it was a perfect situation…until he said “why don’t we split literally cut it down the middle and restore half of the dress and not the other half so people can really see the difference. I went into panic mode, more accurately described as Fight or Flight. There was no freaking way my boss was going to cut up my Mother’s dress and display it like a freak show. And then BAM! I realized that I cared about my mom’s dress with ever knowing that I actually cared. I couldn’t wait to have my company restore my mom’s dress back to its former glory and there was no way I was going to let someone cut it up. So I’ve turned from a calculating marketing woman, to a sentimental little girl who actually wants to wear her mother’s wedding dress. And if I can’t wear it, I want it, whole and in one piece. So I guess what I am saying is you may not want to preserve your wedding gown because you don’t care about it, but I bet future generations are going to care about it even if they think they won’t. It shocked me how protective and sentimental I got over it. Oh…and mom about died when I showed her, her wedding gown.
Posted by Ashley Abboud on Mon, Dec 27, 2010 @ 02:59 PM
I hope you took the 30 seconds to see why Omaha Lace Cleaners is the best
Posted by Ashley Abboud on Fri, Dec 03, 2010 @ 01:28 PM
Absolutely nothing. Ha! I’m joking, I think I’ve always wanted to tell someone that and you’re the lucky someone. In all honesty Omaha Lace Cleaners is an 86 year old French Dry Cleaner. We specialize in fine, delicate garments. More precisely we specialize in wedding dresses; cleaning, restoring and preserving them, we also have an alterations specialist that can fit you before your wedding day. But what I mean by preserving is we actually clean and treat your wedding gown so it does not age with time and succumb to the yellowing or browning that you see on vintage wedding dresses. Here is how the process works if you were to come into our store today:
-First you get a Free Evaluation of your dress and an estimate.
-Once we have your dress we then hand clean your gown individually. This ensures that the delicate beading and lace work is not damaged.
-We also treat your dress with an Anti-sugar stain treatment. (ummmm what??) What this treatment does is takes away all the unseen sugar stains that happen upon your dress. Like the glass of champagne that was spilled and it dried clear so you didn’t even remember it happened. Well when we treat with an Anti-sugar treatment it will take those stains away. Those are the stains that cause browning and yellowing years later.
-Once this cleaning process is done before we package up your dress you can come and inspect your dress for quality work (which of course we always do). But that is your guarantee that you can trust our workmanship.
-Once we get your A-okay we then box your wedding dress in an acid-free tissue which is then carefully folded into an acid-free, museum quality, wedding chest. You may have heard about vacuum sealing your dress like you do your meat before you freeze it. You don’t want to do that, fabrics need to breathe and if oxygen does not get to the fabric it will actually speed up the process of deterioration.
After all this work and you get your wedding dress back you are also given a life time guarantee! Omaha Lace wants you to be happy, your wedding dress is yours alone and the memories your dress holds for you can never be duplicated. That is why our work is the most recommended and most trusted. With 86 years you can trust that we know how to preserve your wedding gown and treasure your memories.
Posted by Ashley Abboud on Wed, Sep 29, 2010 @ 02:38 PM
I was proposed to on a Wednesday and married by Friday on a lake in a pink dress because I couldn't find a white dress in two days. I honestly don't know what I was thinking, but luckily for me I was forced to have a reception a few months later and I got to have my white wedding dress. I of course still have both; I can't imagine ever getting rid of them. But what makes me laugh is that it took me years to get the dresses that meant so much to me cleaned. Actually it took me working at Omaha Lace to remember that I actually cared about them enough to have them cleaned and preserved. Yes both, well one is preserved the other pink one I just had cleaned and bagged up. I think we forget how an outfit can hold so many memories. I mean I still have my high school gym uniform, it was one of the most comfortable t-shirts I've ever had. But t-shirts are meant to get old and nasty and thin, that's the glory of an old shirt. That's also why we steal our boyfriend's t-shirts (I still have my collection). There is nothing better than an old shirt. But that isn't the case with a wedding dress. Chances are pretty good you are going to spill all over that dress some kind of clear liquid that you won't remember about a day later because it dried clear. But a year later you'll see the brown spot from where it starts to ruin your dress. I guess what I am trying to get at is don't underestimate the memories your dress will hold for you years later. You might think "who cares your day is over, I won't ever wear my dress" but when you move or are rearranging a closet you'll take it out and you'll be so disappointed that your beautiful wedding dress is turning brown. So get your dress cleaned and preserved, it's worth it.
Posted by Ashley Abboud on Thu, Sep 16, 2010 @ 10:01 AM
Stuck with your wedding dress and don't know what to do? Here are 5 things you can do with your wedding dress:
5. Trash the dress photo op. Haven't heard of it?
http://bit.ly/cVd274 Women take their dress the day after the big day and just have a hay day with all sorts of messy props. Paint, water, mud, food you name it you're playing with it in your beautiful white or cream dress dress.
4. Sell your dress on
craigslist. No kidding, a lot of brides want a beautiful dress but don't or can't spend the money on it. Vintage is in, don't want to use your mom's...sell it!
3. Donate it. There is a wonderful cause out there called brides
against breast cancer :
http://bridesagainstbreastcancer.org/ they take your dress and sell it and the proceeds go to making memories to grant final wishes to women and men suffering from terminal breast cancer.
2. Have your gown used to make your child's christening gown. There are a number of alteration specialists that can do this for you. But first make sure you have your gown cleaned.
1. Last but not least, have your wedding gown preserved. You spent a lot of money on the
pivotal piece of your wedding and your future children may want to see your dress and actually wear it or alter it later to suite their needs. To have your wedding dress preserved means that your dress is cleaned and treated in order to get the stains seen and unseen off. It is then put into a
museum quality archival chest.
www.omahalacecleaners.com specializes in wedding gown restoration and preservation.
those are just a few things a bride can do with her wedding dress, it would be shame not to at least try one of these things listed, and hey if you go to the right gown preservation/restoration cleaner they may even be able to "
Untrash" your dress from the photo shoot.