Years from now, the preservation chest holding your dress will sit somewhere meaningful in your home. Personalizing it — with your names, your wedding date, a photo — makes it a cherished reminder of how wonderful your day was.
We offer two ways to personalize your preservation chest. Each is added at checkout when you place your order — here’s how every option looks.
Select Your Personalization Option
No Personalization
Included
A beautiful white-gloss (Traditional) or silver-tone (Celebrity) preservation chest, left clean and classic. Timeless on its own.
Most Popular
Name & Wedding Date
$30
Your names and wedding date, printed in classic black so they stay legible at a glance for decades to come.
Photo + Name & Date
$60
The full treatment: a photo of your choosing — engagement, wedding day, or honeymoon — plus your names and date, printed in archival-quality color directly onto the chest.
How to Add Personalization
There’s no separate order process. Personalization options are right on the order page when you place your preservation order — then we send instructions to collect the details with your free shipping kit.
- Choose your service. Start with Traditional, Celebrity, or one of our Restoration services.
- Select a personalization option at checkout. You’ll see the options for None / Name & Date / Photo + Name & Date.
- Place your order. Your complimentary shipping kit ships out to your door.
- Fill in your details. The shipping kit includes personalization instructions on the form — just write your names, date, and (if applicable) upload a digital file to our secure upload page.
- Send us your dress. Use the prepaid FedEx label and ship your dress and the form in the same box.
- Receive a personalized chest. Your dress comes back in a fully personalized preservation chest, ready to display or store.
Adding personalization to a Restoration order works the same way — it’s available at checkout on both Traditional Restoration and Celebrity Restoration. The Clean-Only service doesn’t include a chest, so personalization doesn’t apply there.
Personalization Questions
Can I customize my preservation chest?
Yes — two personalization options are available to commemorate your special day on your wedding dress preservation chest.
Option 1: Your name(s) and wedding date
Option 2: Your name(s), wedding date, and wedding photo
This special memento will be placed in the bottom corner of your preservation chest. See the options, examples, and pricing above.
How many characters can fit on the chest?
Each of the two text lines on the preservation chest has a 35-character limit, including spaces — plenty for most name-and-date combinations.
Can I use a custom message instead of names and date?
The personalization options are limited to names and wedding date, rather than a custom message. The text is printed exactly as you write it on your order form, giving you flexibility in how you frame it — last names, first names only, or full names.
What font and color are used for the text?
The text font and color are a single classic black font, which reads cleanly against either the white gloss or silver-tone preservation chest — see the photos above for examples. The font is timeless and classic rather than trendy, so it will look just as elegant decades from now as it does today.
What photos can I use?
Almost any wedding-day, engagement, or honeymoon photo meets our photo requirements. To ensure the best result:
• Accepted file types: .jpg, .png, or .gif
• Maximum file size: 2 GB
• Minimum image dimensions: 540×360 pixels (larger is better)
• Black-and-white photos are welcome, but must be submitted already in black and white — we’re unable to convert color images
Can you pull a photo from my photographer or Instagram?
Unfortunately, we aren’t able to pull photos from a photographer’s gallery or social media, since print quality depends on the original file. To ensure the best result, upload your photo directly through our secure upload page — instructions are included in your shipping kit — or send a USB drive along with your dress and we’ll return it to you free of charge.
Will I see a preview before my chest is printed?
We’re unable to provide a preview of how your photo will look on your preservation chest. If you have any special instructions, such as photo cropping or text formatting, please include those on your order form and we’ll follow them as closely as possible.
For more about personalization or your order in general, see our complete FAQ or reach out directly.