Wedding and anniversary

Some anniversaries are marked with flowers and some are marked by telling the whole story out loud. A personalized anniversary gift turns your years together into an illustrated book where the couple in the drawings is actually you, because the characters are built from a photo of each of you.

The moments that go into the book

You choose them, and four or five are enough:

• How you met: the official version and the real one
• The trip that went wrong and became your best story
• The proposal, the yes, the first dance
• Everything after: the flat, the dog, the ordinary Mondays

Those moments become the spine of the story, and you approve every page before anything is printed. It works the same way as a wedding gift handed over on the morning of the ceremony, as a surprise at an engagement, or as the present for a first anniversary or a fiftieth.

What the book is like

An illustrated book of 12 to 24 pages with your names, your places and a dedication from you on the first page. You pick the illustration style, and the scenes are generated from your photos: on the page about the night you almost gave up, it is the two of you standing there, not two strangers who happen to be the right height.

You can give it digitally the same evening, which is the answer when the date is tomorrow, add the narrated audiobook, or order it printed in hardback and have it arrive at home ready to wrap. Nothing else on the gift table can be duplicated: it is your story, one edition, one copy.

You can read a finished example before you start: The Ten-Year Yes, ten years told as ten stops, from a delayed train to the vow. If you are looking for another date, see the Valentine's Day story or the rest of the occasions to give a story.