You may carry on a wedding dress. It will count toward your allowance of 1 carry-on and 1 personal item. It must also meet size and weight limits for carry-on items.
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You can bring a wedding dress through the security checkpoint for screening, but we strongly recommend that it is packed safely in a garment-style bag or other packaging to protect it during the screening process.
You can take your wedding dress, morning suit or bridesmaid dress as part of your hand baggage as long as it does not exceed your hand baggage allowance (i.e. number, size and weight of bags).
Airlines generally count wedding dresses as carry-on items, so be sure to check with the carry-on policies and fly through security with no problems. If your dress needs to pass through security checkpoints, rest assured that the officers are required to use gloves to avoid damaging the dress.
While no major airline has an official dress code, they do have policies on appropriate dress. Sometimes, those policies are enforced and go viral. Remember getting dress coded in school?
“If you are opposed to getting patted down, then wearing a maxi skirt or dress isn't your best bet, because the officer will have to check you are not hiding anything under your skirt,” Pruitt tells us.
Co-owner Tali Gallo said their go-to method is placing the dress inside a garment bag, taking the hanger out, removing as much air as possible and rolling it up gently to fit into a hard-shell carry-on bag. Take care not to roll the bodice if it has boning, she said.
Yes, handbags do count as your one piece of hand luggage. The best way to get around this is to place your handbag within your cabin bag/luggage piece and remove it to use once onboard. The same rule applies to items such as laptops and items bought at the airport.