About this vendor
Ablitt's Fine Cleaners is a specialist service that cares for wedding dresses and sentimental garments in Santa Barbara, CA. The team here can clean and prepare your dress for the big day, and preserve it after so that it looks as good as new for generations to come.
This family-owned business has over three decades of experience perfecting garments. They will endeavor to make yours as fresh as can be so that it can be kept as an heirloom forever. Using sustainable practices, this team fulfills its duties with minimal environmental impact.
The experts at Ablitt's Fine Cleaners will take meticulous care with your precious dress, cleaning and pressing it to perfection. They use gentle products and a GreenEarth Cleaning system both before and after the big day. Your gown can be passed down as an heirloom, preserved in an airtight chest for freshness.
Only a MuseumCare™ wedding gown preservation is true protection for your wedding or family gown and for you. Look for the Association of Wedding Gown Specialists name, and look for their logo!
Their written international preservation guarantee is backed by their Certified Wedding Gown Specialists™ of the Association of Wedding Gown Specialists, who are represented in more than 500 cities around the world.
Return your wedding or family gown to any participating Certified Wedding Gown Specialist™ who will inspect and press your gown at no charge. Improper handling of the wedding or family gown without the supervision of a Certified Wedding Gown Specialist™ may cause damage and compromise the true preservation of your wedding gown.
Association of Wedding Gown Specialists established a ReforestationFund™ and will help provide support to the Arbor Day Foundation, the perfect partner to help make a positive impact in nature and celebrate your wedding gown preservation, to plant a tree for every wedding gown our members preserve. Founded in 1972, the Arbor Day Foundation is the world’s largest member nonprofit dedicated to planting trees. Together with their members, partners, and programs, they have helped plant more than 500 million trees in neighborhoods, communities, cities, and forests throughout the world.
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Business Attributes
- Woman-owned Business
Dresses
- Bridesmaid Dresses
- Wedding Dresses
Fashion Services
- Alterations
- Dry Cleaning & Preservation
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out of 5.04 reviews
I have been a client of Ablitt's for over 30 years and have always been very pleased with the way they treat and clean my clothing, I'm addition to their customer service. This is...
the reason I entrusted the cleaning of my wedding gown to them in October of 2022 I could not be more pleased. My wedding was outside, and like others who have held outside weddings, the hem of my dress and veil was full of dirt, straw, and grass by the end of the evening. Ablitts did an extraordinary cleaning job of both my veil and dress and helping me understand the decision in whether to just have it cleaned and placed on a hanger or cleaned and preserved in a box. When Margarita , Ablitt's speciality item manager, invited me to preview my dress before it was boxed up she took the time to explain the cleaning process and discussed the dust in the dress fibers not visible to the eye, that also was removed during their cleaning process. She also took the time to explain the preservation process, how it could still age over time, and how to handle the dress should I desire to unbox it. It was quite an interesting education for me and it was also fun to see the passion Margarita has for her job and her interest in ensuring that all of Ablitt's speciality cleaned items such as wedding dresses, are handled with great care by those with professional knowledge. She even explained how delicate fabrics such as those used in quality veils and dresses may break and have tiny holes after outside weddings as the particles in the ground will break down the delicate fabric and the glass crystals in veil edging dragged across the ground can also cause damage. So ladies, ensure you bustle up your dresses and take your veils off after outside wedding ceremonies if you want to help ensure the integrity of your gowns.
Ablitts has given us the best service whether it's to clean a simple shirt or clean my daughter's wedding gown. Their service is impeccable. The wedding gown presentation in the bo...
x was done beautifully and special.
I got married at a ranch and chose a dress with a lacy train- you only get married once! By the end of the night, the bottom of my dress was a mess. I didn't think it was repairabl...
e, but loved the dress so much that I wanted to at least TRY to preserve it. I took it to Ablitt's and they did an amazing job! They spent three days picking out all of the hay my dress had accumulated throughout the day and night. It looked practically new. Thank you so much!
So my dad cut his arm and got blood on my wedding dress the night before the big day. I tried to take the stain out with club soda and just made it worse with a water stain. My h...
usband took my dress to Abilitt's the next morning, telling them the situation. Miraculously, they had my dress perfect in a couple of hours. Awesome.
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14 W Gutierrez St, Santa Barbara, CA
Ablitt's Fine Cleaners