What people write

Four sample keepsakes, as your family would open them

A letter for a wedding, two old photographs for a birthday, a video for a graduation, and a letter for after someone has passed away. Each sample shows the person opening it and the page they see.

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A grandfather at his kitchen table writing a keepsake on his phone beside an old photograph

For Emma

Opens on her wedding day

From the person who wrote it to the person who opens it

The names are made up. The kinds of keepsake are the ones people write most, and the pages look exactly like the real ones.

Sample 1 of 4 · A message

A bride on her wedding morning sitting on a hotel bed, reading her phone with a hand at her mouth

Opened on

Emma’s wedding day, 9 October 2032

Written by Grandpa Joe at his kitchen table, six years before Emma’s wedding. Forever Photo asked him the questions one at a time.

A wedding

From Grandpa Joe

Sent to you on Saturday, 9 October 2032

Emma,

By the time you read this you’ll be standing somewhere with flowers in your hands, and somebody will be fussing with your hair.

The morning you were born I drove to the hospital in my slippers. Didn’t notice till the nurse pointed at my feet. Your grandmother laughed so hard she had to sit down in the corridor.

You held on to my thumb that whole first day like you’d been waiting for it. I hope the one standing next to you today has found out about that grip already.

Go on, now. Everybody’s waiting.

Grandpa Joe

Sample 2 of 4 · Photographs

A young man at a kitchen table on his birthday morning, grinning at his phone beside a cupcake

Opened on

David’s 25th birthday, 14 March 2034

Grandma Asha on a garden bench taking a picture of an old snapshot with her phone

Sent by Grandma Asha, who took pictures of two old prints from her album with her phone and wrote the story behind them.

A birthday

From Grandma Asha

Sent to you on Tuesday, 14 March 2034

An old snapshot of a woman on a jetty at a lake, laughing and holding up a large bass

An old snapshot of a teenage girl sitting on the same jetty with her arms folded

David,

The first one’s my mother at the lake the year I turned sixteen. She’d just caught a bass bigger than anything my father ever pulled out of that water, and she didn’t let him forget it all summer.

The second one’s me, the same morning, pretending I wasn’t jealous. Look at my arms. I wasn’t pretending very well.

You’ve got her hands. I noticed when you were six, holding a fishing rod the wrong way round and refusing any help. Twenty-five today. She’d have made you clean the fish.

Grandma Asha

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Sample 3 of 4 · A video

A young man sitting on his bed early in the morning watching a video on his phone, a graduation gown hanging behind him

Opened on

Sam’s graduation, 3 June 2034

Grandma Nell on her sofa, talking to her phone camera

Recorded by Grandma Nell on her sofa, with the phone propped against a cushion. She added a short letter under the video.

A graduation

From Grandma Nell

Sent to you on Saturday, 3 June 2034

Sam,

I recorded the video first. Took me three goes. The first two I couldn’t stop laughing about your science fair volcano, the one that went off in the back seat on the way there.

Go and have your day. Wear the shoes that don’t pinch.

Grandma Nell

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Sample 4 of 4 · For after I’ve gone

A woman sitting on a front step beside pots of pink flowers, reading her phone

Opened on

22 April 2038, after Ruth passed away

Auntie Ruth on her front step beside a pot of pink flowers

Written by Auntie Ruth on her front step. Her neighbor Tom agreed to tell Forever Photo when the time came, and the letter went out after that.

For after I’ve gone

From Auntie Ruth

Sent to you on Thursday, 22 April 2038

Sarah,

If you’re reading this, I’ve passed away, and Tom’s told Forever Photo the way I asked him to.

The pink flowers you planted by my front step came back again this year. Every spring I went out in my dressing gown to count them. Fourteen, last time I looked.

Dig a few up for your own garden in September. Dig deep. They don’t like being moved. I never did either.

Auntie Ruth

What you can put in a keepsake

Every sample on this page was made with the same few screens.

A written message. Answer a few questions and get a first draft, or type it yourself
Up to ten photographs, each with the story behind it
A video of up to two minutes, recorded on your phone or computer
A delivery date next month, next year, or up to 20 years ahead on a paid plan
A letter for after you've passed away, sent once a person you choose tells us

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