Paper is the traditional gift for a first wedding anniversary, and each of these is printed on it from your own dates: the sky on your wedding night, the Moon that day, your first year in Moons. The files are ready minutes after you pay, with nothing to ship, to print at home or at a photo counter and frame.
One payment, no account A free remake if you spot a typo
Each printed from your own dates and town
The stars, the Moon and the planets over the town where you married, at the hour of the vows or the first dance, with both your names and two lines of your own.
The night your first year began, printed on paper for the day it ends.
The sky over the town where it started, at the hour you remember: every star that was up, the Moon at its phase and the planets, under your names.
For a couple who count from the beginning, or when the wedding date is already on everything else.
NASA's Moon at the exact phase it showed over your town that day, lit and turned as it hung in your sky, alone or ringed by every night of its month.
Quieter than a star map, and the Moon has a phase on any day: a good fit for an afternoon wedding.
The night you met, the day you got engaged and the day you married, each Moon at its true phase on one sheet with its date and your words. Up to six, so the first home fits too.
A story rather than one date, for a couple whose year was full.
A 2027 wall calendar with your anniversary already in its day and counted, every birthday you'd hate to miss with the age it turns, your holidays and each month's full Moon.
Paper you'll both use every day of the year that this one begins.
The plainer, more graphic designs, made from the same dates. Ideas, not rules: any of the five suits either of you.
The star chart, in Midnight or Verdigris Your wedding night's stars engraved like an old atlas plate inside a brass ring marked in degrees. It suits a study, an office or a den.
The Moon's month, in Ink The Moon you married under, ringed by every night of its month, its quarters dated below. Spare and graphic, in navy and silver.
The calendar, in Moonlit Each month's full Moon photographed above a grid to write on, with your anniversary and his family's birthdays already in their days.The warmer colours, the Moon up close and your story told in Moons. Pick a design and colour on its page.
The Moon, in Rosé The Moon alone as a gallery photograph, with a museum label of the day, the town and its phase under it.
The sky as you saw it, in Blue hour The night you met from the horizon up: the sky coloured by the Sun's height at that minute, the stars and the Moon where they stood.
Your story in Moons, in Porcelain Met, engaged, married: each Moon one under another on a fine line, the words turning side to side toward it.Every print comes in five sizes, each its own PDF, so you can buy the frame first and print the size that fits it. Choose matte paper over gloss: behind glass, a gloss print shines twice.
| Size | Where to print it | Frame |
|---|---|---|
| Letter or A4 | At home, on the heaviest matte paper your printer takes, at its best setting | Its own size, or 11 × 14 with a mat cut for it |
| 8 × 10 in | A photo counter | 8 × 10, or 11 × 14 matted for 8 × 10 |
| 11 × 14 in | A photo counter | 11 × 14, or 16 × 20 matted for 11 × 14 |
| 18 × 24 in | A print shop | An 18 × 24 poster frame |
The calendar comes as Letter and A4 landscape, a month a page for a home printer, and 11 × 17 in, the classic wall calendar with the Moon above the month: any print shop or office store prints it as a tabloid and will bind it with a wire and a hanger if you ask.
The traditional list, as American almanacs give it. It starts with paper and turns harder-wearing as a marriage does, to silver at 25 and gold at 50.
| Year | Traditional gift |
|---|---|
| 1 | Paper |
| 2 | Cotton |
| 3 | Leather |
| 4 | Fruit or flowers (linen in the UK) |
| 5 | Wood |
| 6 | Iron, or sugar |
| 7 | Wool, or copper |
| 8 | Bronze |
| 9 | Pottery |
| 10 | Tin or aluminum |
| Year | Traditional gift |
|---|---|
| 15 | Crystal |
| 20 | China |
| 25 | Silver |
| 30 | Pearl |
| 40 | Ruby |
| 50 | Gold |
| 60 | Diamond |
British lists differ in places, and many shops print a modern list beside this one.
On your first wedding anniversary, one year to the day from the wedding. Paper is its traditional gift, the first on the list; cotton follows for the second.
What you give is a print: on paper, in a frame, made from your own day. It arrives as files so you can print it where you like, at home or at a photo counter, in the size of the frame you chose.
Yes. The files are ready a few minutes after you pay, and there's nothing to ship. Print Letter or A4 at home tonight, or order an 8 × 10 or 11 × 14 from a photo counter that prints the same day.
No. Without one, the star map and the moon print show the sky an hour after sunset on that day. With it, they show the minute itself: the vows, the first dance, the first hello.
A typo, the wrong day or a change of design: remake it free, once, within 30 days, from your files' page. A file that's wrong or won't open is fixed or refunded within 60 days. A change of mind isn't refunded once the files are made (terms).
