Wedding dress, veil and evening gown – cleaned with care, from CHF 90
You usually only notice it the day after the wedding: a grey hem from dancing, a drop of wine, make-up on the neckline, grass from the photo shoot. At Zekos Express on Sempacherstrasse 19 in Lucerne we clean wedding dresses gently and pre-treat stains before they set. A wedding dress with simple trim is cleaned from CHF 90.
Many stains on a wedding dress are invisible on the day itself: champagne, icing or fruit juice dry almost without a trace and turn yellowish over time. The longer a dress hangs in the wardrobe, the harder it is to clean. So it is best to bring it in during the first weeks after the wedding – fresh stains can usually still be lifted well.
Wedding dresses often consist of several layers of fabric, petticoats, lace and sewn-on beads or sequins. Before cleaning we check the care label and every embellishment, pre-treat stains one by one and choose the method the fabric can take. To be honest: not every old or dried-in stain comes out completely. We tell you what is realistic when you drop the dress off.
Guide prices from our price list. We give you the exact price as soon as we have seen the dress.
Please bring the dress together with the veil, petticoat and all detachable parts such as the train or belt – then everything is cleaned in one go and the colours stay matched. If you know where a stain comes from (red wine, make-up, grass, wax), tell us: it helps with the pre-treatment.
Your dress has not been worn yet but does not fit? Then it is a job for our tailoring studio in the same building: we shorten, take in or let out and adjust straps and corset. After the wedding we take care of the cleaning – all at one address in Lucerne.
Short answers on price, timing and stains.
Contact →A short wedding dress with simple trim is cleaned from CHF 90, a medium-trim dress or one with two petticoats for CHF 160. Richly embroidered dresses are priced by effort; we tell you the price when you drop the dress off.
As soon as possible, ideally within the first few weeks. Dried stains from champagne, sugar or juice are barely visible at first but turn yellowish over time and are then harder to remove.
Fresh stains usually do. With old, dried-in or already yellowed stains that is not always fully possible. We look at the dress when you drop it off and tell you honestly what is realistic.
Yes. Bridal veils are cleaned from CHF 27, long evening gowns from CHF 65 and short cocktail dresses from CHF 45. We are also happy to take the groom's suit for dry cleaning.
No. Come to Sempacherstrasse 19 in Lucerne without an appointment: Monday to Friday 7am–7pm, Thursday until 8pm, Saturday 8am–5pm.
Yes, in our tailoring studio in the same building. We shorten, take in or let out and adjust straps and corset. More on the "wedding dress alterations" page.
Drop the dress off without an appointment – two minutes' walk from Lucerne station. We look at the fabric, the embellishments and the stains together and give you the price and collection date before we start.
