An anniversary card with the photo and the words
Kindnotes makes an anniversary card from one photograph and one honest note, opened as a link on their phone. The photo develops on a polaroid print or sits inside a locket that opens; the note comes after, line by line.
An anniversary card should have a picture in it, and it should say something only the two of you would understand. Pick the photo you keep coming back to. Write the paragraph you would never post.
There is no gallery of other people's photos and no stock message. What they open is yours: the print, the caption, the note on the back, and, if you record one, your voice at the end.
The design for it
The polaroid holds a photograph; the note is on the back of the print. For a photo that deserves gold and glass, the locket. About the polaroid.
How it works
1. Pick the design
The envelope, the polaroid or the locket. Each one is drawn and animated by hand.
2. Write the note
It sets itself in a handwriting hand and fits the paper. A photo and a voice note if you like.
3. Send one link
It opens on any phone, no app and no account. You keep an edit link; changes go live on theirs.
What to write
Start with one specific thing. Four ways in:
- I still think about the day we
- Here is the thing about you that I noticed first:
- One more year, and the part I'd choose again is
- Nobody else knows this, but
Questions
- Can I add a photo?
- Yes. The polaroid and the locket take a photograph from your phone; it is resized on the way up and kept private to the card.
- Can I add a voice note?
- Yes, up to a minute. They can play it at the end of the card.
- Is it just for couples?
- No. A work anniversary, a friendship, a year sober: an anniversary is any date worth marking.
Other occasions
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