Transform your wedding dress into stunning heirlooms to gift and cherish.

Unbox the Dress is a women-owned company located in the garment district here in beautiful North Carolina.

The process can take up to 15 weeks from your design call, after your dress arrives at our HQ.

Expedited delivery may be available for an additional investment.

Not sure what you'd like to have made?
Most clients decide to start the process and send their dress via our safe-ship DressBox. We'll place your heirloom order together during your consultation after the dress arrives.

Know exactly what you'd like?
Feel free to add your designs to your cart & checkout.

Our expert Graceful Sewers are able to make several beautiful heirloom products from just about any dress! And our supplemental satin options make it easy to extend your dress or maximize the transformation of heavily damaged or low fabric dresses.

Explore suggestions via our Design Quiz, or reach out to support@unboxthedress.com.

No worries! Our design team often works around small areas of damage.

We also offer in-house eco-friendly fabric care and cleaning services as an option. This $100 cost can be added during your design call.

Our DressBox is a waterproof, lockable, reusable container designed to keep your dress safe as it makes its way to our studio. We provide a pre-addressed mailing label, so all you have to do is slip your dress into the DressBox and send it back our way.

The DressBox cost covers shipping, insurance, your Design Consult - and six months of extra fabric safekeeping so you can make more heirlooms over time.

All our clients get to have a live Design Consultation.

Once we receive your dress or DressBox, we'll send an email inviting you to schedule your consultation. You'll work with your designer to finalize the details of your order.

We've made shipping easy with our custom-designed DressBox. We'll send it right to your address and include a pre-addressed return label, so all you have to do follow the enclosed directions to place your dress inside.

Most customers have remaining fabrics after their initial order. We provide six months of in-house storage to allow time for alterations or additional items to be made, with a modest storage fee for for month to month or long term storage in our DressVault.

Customers can also choose to have their fabric returned to them for the cost of shipping or donate the fabrics to Unbox for our annual Sustainable Angel program.

Yes! If you are located in the area and prefer to meet in person, please contact Customer Care or email support@unboxthe dress.com to book one of our studio appointments.

We look forward to meeting you!

Yes! We are happy to arrange for international shipping. Special shipping rates will apply. Please contact support@unboxthedress.com with your specific location of choice.

We're happy to help!

Send an email to support@unboxthedress.com and we'll reply as soon as we can!