When you lose someone, you want to hold on to every piece of them. Send one link, and the people who loved them can add a photo and a memory from wherever they are. We lay out every page for you and print a hardcover book your family will keep forever.
Start a memorial book See how it worksSo much of who a person was lives on in other people. Their college roommate, the neighbor from three houses ago, the coworker who sat across from them for eleven years — each of them holds a piece of your loved one that you've never seen. At a service those stories get told once, in a receiving line, and then they slip away.
A memorial memory book gives them somewhere to land. Instead of you gathering photos and retyping stories from texts and voicemails while you're grieving, everyone adds their own page directly. A guest book asks for a signature. This asks for the memory behind it.
It's never too early or too late to start. Some families share the link in the obituary within the first few days. Others begin on a first anniversary or a birthday, when everyone is quietly thinking about them anyway and is grateful to be asked.
You set it up once. Everyone else does the remembering, and the pages lay themselves out.
Add their name, a cover photo, and their dates. Choose whether the project is public or private, and set a deadline if you have a service coming up.
Text it, email it, put it in the obituary or on the funeral home page. People open it, add up to three photos, and write what they remember. Nothing to download, nothing to sign up for.
Each contribution becomes a finished page — photos placed, words set, all handled for you. You read everything before it goes in the book.
Download a free PDF, or order a printed hardcover shipped to your door. Extra copies for siblings, parents and anyone who asks are easy to add.
A guest book records who came. A memory book records what they carry with them.
Distance, health, work, a service on a Tuesday — the people who can't be in the room can still be in the book, from anywhere in the world.
Three photos and a paragraph, written on a phone in the moment someone is thinking of them. No passwords, nothing to install.
Everyone wants to do something and doesn't know what. "Add a page" is a real answer, and gifting toward the printing is another.
Contributions come in every shape — one photo or nine, two lines or two pages. Each one is laid out into a page that looks like it belongs.
A 10-inch square case-bound book with a matte cover and matte pages, made to sit on the shelf where you'll reach for it.
The book doesn't have to close after the service. Come back on an anniversary, and print a second volume when there's enough to fill one.
A blank box is hard when you're grieving. A question is easier. Put one or two of these in your invitation.
There is no cost to start a memorial project or to collect memories, and no obligation to order a book at the end.
Create the project, invite everyone, and gather photos and stories for free. You only pay if you print.
A 10-inch square matte hardcover with matte interior pages, plus shipping. Extra pages are $1.25 each.
Friends and family can chip in toward printing — each $1.25 covers one page of the finished book.
No. They open the link, add their photos and a memory, and leave an email address so you can thank them. There's no app and no password, and it works the same on a phone as on a computer — which matters when you're inviting people of every age.
You can share the link the day you start, and printing takes about 96 hours plus shipping. Many families share the link at the service instead and print afterward, so everyone who attends can still add a page.
Yes. A project can be public or private, and memories marked private are seen only by you and the people you invite. You review every submission before it goes into the book.
Photos are enhanced automatically when they're uploaded — exposure and color are corrected the way a photo editor would. Scanned prints and snapshots from the 1980s come out far better than they went in.
Setting up and collecting memories is free. A printed hardcover is $34.95 for the first 20 pages, then $1.25 for each additional page, plus shipping. A 60-page book works out to $84.95. The PDF is free.
Yes. Gift a Page lets anyone give $1.25 or more toward the print cost — a meaningful alternative to sending flowers. Every gift goes directly to the book.
Yes. Most families order several, one for each household, and additional copies come from the same finished book.
Other ways families and communities use Memory Booked.
It takes about five minutes to set up. Send the link before you go to bed, and wake up to the first memories from the people who loved them.
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