Make a magazine about someone you love

You send the photos and the stories. I design every page, you approve a full proof, and then your book is printed to order and delivered with tracking.

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An example proof conversation: the buyer asks to swap a page and change a few photos, I send an updated proof, they approve it, and it goes to print

Step by step

  1. Choose their book

    Pick the book for the chapter you’re celebrating: a birthday, an anniversary or a baby’s first year. Each book is built around one person or one couple.

    For him · For her · For couples · For baby

  2. Order with the name for the cover

    Add the name or names you want on the cover, and the date you need it by. The book page tells you straight away if that date works.

    Each order is one book, except the First Year book: choose up to 5 identical copies so the grandparents get their own (€59.97 for one, each extra copy €30).

  3. Send your photos and stories

    Your order email links to a short form for your photos and the names, dates, stories and in-jokes you want in the book. If you want a letter in it, write it there and it goes in word for word.

    Ordered on this website? Use your website order number where the form asks for the order number.

  4. Approve your proof

    I design every page in 1 to 3 days and send you the whole book to look through. Ask for any change you like: a swapped photo, a reworded line, a different page. Nothing prints until you love it.

  5. Printed and delivered

    Once you approve, your book is printed to order and shipped with tracking, to you or straight to them.

How long it takes

Design takes 1 to 3 days from when your photos and form arrive. The times here start once you approve your proof. These are estimates, and every order is tracked.

Need it by a date? Every book page has a “Need it by” check that does the sums for you.

Ship toAfter you approve the proof
United StatesAbout 4 to 7 business days
United KingdomAbout 4 to 7 business days
IrelandAbout 7 to 10 business days
European UnionAbout 7 to 10 business days
Anywhere elseMessage me before ordering

The book itself

Every book is printed to order on the same paper, in full color.

Pages
30 for most books, with 20 of them your photos. Five Years is 50.
Paper
170gsm coated silk
Cover
250gsm coated softcover, matte lamination
Size
8 x 11 in (21 x 28 cm), portrait
Print
Full color
Delivery
Tracked

What to have ready

Your favorite photos

Old and new, of them and of you together. 20 to 50 photos from your camera roll is plenty; around 65 for Five Years.

Names and dates

The name or names for the cover, the date of the occasion, and their age if it’s a birthday.

Stories and in-jokes

How you met, the things they always say, favorite places, and the moments only you would know.

A letter, if you want one

Some books open or close with a letter from you. It’s printed in full, in your words.

More questions? Read the FAQ.

Pick their book

The Husband book held up: a black and white cover of Jack in Rome, with the cover lines Cold beer, bad jokes, five minutes

Birthday, Christmas or just because

Husband

Cold beer, bad jokes, five minutes: all of him, in print.

€59.97 See the book
The Boyfriend book held up: Leo on a brownstone street, with the cover lines One more game, always hungry, best hugs

Birthday, Valentine’s or long distance

Boyfriend

Green flags, things he says, the distance: his story so far.

€59.97 See the book
The Birthday book for her held up: Sophie on the cover of her Birthday Issue

Her birthday

Birthday for her

Her best photos, her people, her year: a cover story for her.

€54.97 See the book
The One Year book held up: Emma and Liam in front of the Eiffel Tower on the cover

First anniversary

One Year

Where it started, your first date, 365 days of you two.

€59.97 See the book
The Five Years book held up: Emma and Liam at sunset in Santorini on the cover

Fifth anniversary

Five Years

Every trip, every year, the two of you.

€79.97 See the book
The First Year book held up: Milo smiling in his high chair on the cover

Baby’s first birthday

First Year

Fast crawler, food critic, belly laughs: their first 365 days.

€59.97 See the book