For a 40th wedding anniversary

Three generations mark forty years of marriage.

Their children, grandchildren and old friends record messages for the ruby anniversary. Your parents get a printed book of the stories and a podcast link of the voices.

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Hear it
Their voice plays from the page.
Read it
Every message is written out on its page.
Hold it
We deliver the printed book to your door.

The world gets better when people hear the good things we say about them.

We are enabling over 1 million people to say it. Share the stories, love and gratitude. Your voice is what makes the world's greatest gift.

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Watch it

Here's how Clare & James's ruby anniversary book was made.

9:41
A plum Chorus book on a table with white flowers
How it works

Bring everyone's stories together with one link!

Start the book

Tell us who it's for

Put in your parents' names and send the link to your brothers and sisters first.

Share one link

Everyone adds their story

Friends and family can capture a memory by voice, video, writing or photos, wherever they are in the world. It's easy on any phone and nobody needs an account!

We put it together

Hear it, read it, hold it

We write out every voice note and gather it all into a podcast you can play and a beautiful book you can hold.

The three questions for a ruby anniversary

  1. What's a story about the two of them you love?
  2. What have you learned from watching them together?
  3. What would you like to say to them for their 40th?
Who's in a ruby anniversary book

The grandchildren ask the questions nobody else would.

The link goes from the siblings' chat to the grandchildren, the neighbours and the couple they've gone to Kerry with every summer since the eighties.

1

The grandchildren

A teenager can film a message on their own phone and add a photo. The youngest can send in a drawing.

2

The friends from the early years

The couple who lived next door in the first house and the friends from the bowling club remember the two of them before the children came along.

3

The wedding photo, forty years on

Whoever has the wedding photo can add it with their message, and a photo of the two of them this summer can go in too.

What people say

What people say in a ruby anniversary book

Pick one ordinary day you spent with them and tell it from the start.

"James, it's Peadar. I forgot the name of the hotel in my speech and Clare's mother shouted it up from the front table."
PPeadarJames's brother and best man
"Clare, it's Doireann from Glenview Park. You minded our two every Wednesday the year I went back to work, and you never took a penny for it."
DDoireanntheir neighbour in the first house
"Happy anniversary Granny and Grandad. I'm doing the reading at the Mass on Sunday and I've been practising in my room."
CCaoilfhionntheir granddaughter, aged seven
"Mam, Dad, the kids made you a cake for Sunday. It’s red for the ruby anniversary and the icing went everywhere."
DDearbhlatheir daughter
When to start

Start a month before the anniversary dinner

The printed book takes about three weeks to reach you. If you're starting later, the podcast link and the book online are ready the day you order.

In their words
A Christmas gift
We gave a book of stories about Mam to her for Christmas and she said it was the best gift she had received. There were some stories she had never heard! She felt really surrounded by love.
K
Kathleen's family
gave her the book at Christmas
What it costs

Gathering the voices is free. You only pay when the book is ready.

The gathering
Free
Send one link and collect the voices.
  • Every voice and every photo
  • Download every recording
  • Start as many books as you like
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The voices
$45
Voice editing, and a personal podcast link.
  • Each recording tidied as it comes in
  • The original kept exactly as it was made
  • One link that plays every voice straight through
Choose the voices
The book
$99
Everything in the voices, plus the finished book to read online.
  • The finished book laid out to read online
  • Every message playable from its page
  • Every message written out beside its voice
Choose the book
The keepsake
$115
The book, printed and posted to you.
  • One printed hardcover copy
  • Posted to you
  • Everything in the book option
Choose the keepsake

Want to write your own questions? Start a blank book

Questions people ask

What can the kids give their parents for a 40th wedding anniversary?

One gift from all the brothers and sisters, with each of you saying your own piece. Gathering the messages is free, and you can decide together whether to order the printed book.

What is a meaningful ruby anniversary gift for parents who have everything?

Something only the people around them can give. Their neighbours, their brothers and sisters and their oldest friends each say what the two of them have meant to them.

Can we play it at the anniversary party?

Yes. Between the dinner and the band works well.

Can family abroad record?

Yes. They can record from anywhere in the world with the link. We post the printed book to Ireland, the UK, the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, every EU country, Norway, Iceland and Switzerland.

Can everyone chip in?

Yes, if you turn chip-in on. Everyone who records can put money towards the book and saves their card. Their cards are charged when you go to pay, and it comes off what you pay. If you don’t finish paying, their money goes back within a week.

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Whose ruby anniversary is coming up?

Start the book now and invite people whenever you're ready.

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