A wedding book, by everyone who loves them both.
Both families, both sets of friends - each writes one short piece for the couple. Better than a guest book, longer-lived than the speeches: a first heirloom, cloth-bound and ready before the honeymoon ends.
Every voice its own page.
Each contribution is typeset as its own chapter - the text on one page, a full-page colour plate facing it. Your authors' words, authentically reproduced in a format where they can be treasured for years to come.
The story of them
World’s worst wingman
Consider this the uncensored version of my best man speech. I’ll tell some of these stories again on the day, but I’ve only got three minutes up there and a room full of James’s aunts to think about. Here, nobody’s taking the microphone off me.
So: here’s what actually happened. I’d spent three weeks working up the nerve to talk to a woman called Sophie, and brought James along purely as backup - someone to loiter near the drinks table and rescue me if I ran out of things to say. Little did either of us know, a certain someone called Ella was standing nearby, and for reasons I’ve never quite managed to unpick, she took a liking to his spreadsheet-based chat.
Sophie left with somebody else, which tells you exactly how well the backup plan worked without its backup. James, meanwhile, just kept talking to Ella - and by closing time he had her number, written on the back of a naan bread receipt. It’s laminated now. Comes out at every anniversary, so I can point at it and explain, once again, whose night that was actually supposed to be.
— Marcus, best man
How it works
Guests tap a prompt and write what they’ve got - no one’s staring at an empty box.
Written at home, not at the table between courses - everyone gets time to decide what to write.
Once everyone’s written their piece, it’s off to print.