From £45 · Custom print
The First Chapter Print
Your names, wedding date and a line from your vows — letterpressed on thick cotton paper.
Personalise yours →The first wedding anniversary · the paper anniversary
Paper & Ever After
Year one · beautifully kept
The complete guide to the paper anniversary — its meaning, traditions and celebration ideas — plus personalised paper gifts made from your own story.
Trusted for 12,000+ first anniversaries · 4.9 average rating
Count down to year one
When is your paper anniversary?
Enter your wedding date — we'll count the days to your first anniversary.
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211 days of marriage — the paper chapter is almost complete.
The symbolism
Why paper for year one?
Fragile yet enduring, blank yet full of promise — paper is the perfect metaphor for a first year of marriage.
A blank page
Year one is the first chapter. Paper honours the story you've just begun — and everything still unwritten.
New beginningsDelicate & strong
A single sheet tears easily; many sheets, folded and bound, become a book. Like a young marriage, care makes it last.
Care & craftInterwoven fibres
Paper is made of fibres pressed together — two lives, pressed together into something new. That's year one.
Two as one
Knowledge base
Letters outlast everything else you could buy.
Ask couples married fifty years what they kept from year one. It is never the gadget. It is the card with the shaky handwriting, the menu from the first anniversary dinner, the vows printed and framed.
That's why every guide on this site ends the same way: write it down. Then, if you like, let us turn what you wrote into something gallery-worthy.
120+
Guides & ideas
12k
Gifts personalised
4.9
Average rating
The shop
Bestselling paper gifts
Made to order in our studio. Every piece is personalised and proofed with you.
From £58 · Heirloom
Framed Vow Keepsake
Your full vows typeset by hand and framed in oak — the words you actually said, kept forever.
Personalise yours →
From £52 · Map art
Where It All Began Map
The street map of where you met, married or honeymooned — with your date in letterpress.
Personalise yours →Effortless
Personalised in three steps
Step 01 — Tell us your story
Names, dates, vows, places
Type your wording into the order form — or send a photo of your handwritten vows and we'll typeset them.
Step 02 — Approve your proof
A designer proof within 48 hours
We send a digital proof. Unlimited tweaks until every comma feels right. Nothing prints without your yes.
Step 03 — We print & wrap
Letterpress, framed, gift-ready
Printed on cotton or linen paper, wrapped in tissue with a handwritten gift tag. Tracked delivery in 5–7 days.
Not sure?
Find your paper gift in 10 seconds
Answer two questions and we'll point you to the perfect piece.
Love letters to us
12,000 anniversaries and counting
“She cried before she'd finished reading the first line. The proof process was flawless.”
“Museum-quality paper. Our map of Lisbon looks like it cost five times the price.”
“We wrote the letters on our anniversary night. I'll keep them forever.”
How to celebrate
The paper anniversary date-night playbook
Seven paper-themed ways to spend the day — from a vow re-reading at home to a time-capsule picnic. No booking required, just each other.
Cost
From £0
Time needed
One evening
Vibe
Quiet & romantic
Keep forever
PLAN-01
Order by Wednesday for weekend delivery
Year one deserves
more than a card.
Proofed with you · gift-wrapped