Send one link. The people who loved them add a photo and a story from wherever they are. We lay out every page and print a hardcover book the family keeps.
Start a memorial book See how it worksMost of what people remember about someone never reaches the family. A college roommate, a neighbor from three houses ago, the coworker who sat across the aisle for eleven years — each of them holds a piece of the person that no one else has. At a funeral those pieces get spoken once, in a receiving line, and then they are gone.
A memorial memory book is the container for them. Instead of one person collecting photos and retyping stories from texts and voicemails, everyone contributes their own page directly. A guest book asks for a signature; this asks for the memory behind it.
It works whether the service is next week or was two years ago. Some families start a book in the first few days and share the link in the obituary. Others start one on a first anniversary, or a birthday, when people are quietly thinking about the person anyway and are glad to be asked.
You set it up once. Everyone else does the writing, and the layout happens on its own.
Add their name, a cover photo, and the 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. Contributors open it, upload up to three photos, and write what they remember. No account, no download.
Each contribution becomes a finished page — photo placement, cropping, and text all handled by the layout engine. You review anything you want before it is included.
Download a free PDF, or order a printed hardcover shipped to your door. Order extra copies for siblings, parents, or anyone who asks.
A guest book records who came. A memory book records what they carry.
Distance, health, work, a service on a Tuesday — the people who cannot 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 about it. Nothing to install, nothing to remember a password for.
People want to help and do not know how. "Add a page" is a real answer, and gifting toward the printing is a second one.
Contributions arrive in every shape — one photo, nine photos, two lines or two pages. The layout engine arranges each one into a page that looks intentional.
A 10-inch square case-bound book with a matte cover and matte interior pages, printed to sit on a shelf rather than in a drawer.
A book does not have to close after the service. Reopen the project on an anniversary and print a second volume when there is enough to fill one.
Contributors do better with a prompt than with a blank box. These are the ones worth putting in your invitation message.
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 photos and a memory, and leave an email address so you can reach them. No app, no password, and it works the same on a phone as on a computer — which matters when you are inviting people of every age.
You can share the link the day you start the project, and printing takes about 96 hours plus shipping. Many families instead share the link at the service and print afterward, so people who attend can still add their pages.
Yes. A project can be public or private, and contributions marked private are visible only to you and the people you invite. You review submissions before they go into the book.
Photos are enhanced automatically on upload — exposure and color are corrected the way a photo editor would. Scanned prints and phone photos from the 1980s come out far better than they go in.
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, which is a common alternative to sending flowers. Contributions apply directly to the book.
Yes — most families order several, one for each household. Additional copies are ordered from the same finished book.
Other ways families and communities use Memory Booked.
Set it up in about five minutes, send the link before you go to bed, and read the first memories in the morning.
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