Crewtales

Your love story,in a book

A personalised love story book starring the two of you: how you met, the first date, the in-jokes and what comes next. Drawn from your photos.

From £34 delivery and VAT includedOpens soon

Ordering opens soon. Make it now and see your characters, the cover and two pages free: no card needed, just an email to save it.

  • For one year together, an engagement or ten
  • Printed in the UK, delivery included
A young couple on the floor of their flat laughing as she opens the picture book about the two of them

Ordering opens soon

Make the book now and see it free. Leave your email and we write once, on the day ordering opens for Our Story So Far.

How it works

  1. Tell us about you two

    Your names, one to three photos each and a few lines about how it started. Pets welcome. About five minutes.

  2. See it free

    We draw the two of you, the cover and two pages while you wait. Not quite them? Say what to change.

  3. Order, check, surprise them

    Pay when you love it. We draw the rest and email you the finished book: change any page, or say yes.

You pay nothing until you have seen them. See your characters, the cover and two pages free before you pay. Then you check every page: if we haven’t heard from you within 12 hours of our email, we print it as shown so it arrives on time.

Priya & Tom: Our Story So Far

Your names on the cover

Type both and see it. Inside, every page is about the two of you.

What’s inside the 32 pages

  1. The coverThe two of you on the front, both names in the title.
  2. A title pageThe title of your book, on a page of its own.
  3. Your dedicationYour own words, printed on their own page.
  4. Meet the crewA portrait of everyone in the book, pets included, with their names.
  5. The story13 scenes, each a page of text facing a full-page picture: the first meeting, the first date, the moment you knew, your places and little rituals, an adventure together, the people who matter, the proposal or the promise if there was one, today and what comes next.
  6. A closing letterA love letter to end your story.
  7. A keepsake pageA printed frame to stick in a photograph of your own.
  8. The last pageWho the book was made for, by whom and when.

Hardback, 32 pages on thick silk paper, with a printed, matte-laminated cover in the colour of the occasion. You check every page before we print.

Three pages from a love story

Your love story book follows the two of you, in your own words. These sample pages are drawn in the Retro print style.

Retro print illustration of two people reaching for the last copy of the same book in a bookshop

There was one copy left. They both reached for it at exactly the same moment.

How you met, the way you tell it.
Retro print illustration of a couple sharing chips by the sea at sunset

The first date was chips on the sea wall. Then it rained, and neither of them minded.

The first date, and the firsts that followed.
Retro print illustration of a man proposing on a hill above a city at night

He had practised the speech for a week. He forgot all of it, and she said yes anyway.

The big moments, if you want them in.
Two people’s hands on a duvet turning the pages of their love story picture book

The moment they open it

Half of the present is the look on their face when they find the bookshop, the sea wall and the burnt pancakes on the page.

Turning the pages together on a slow Sunday morning.

See it free

A present only you could give

Nobody else knows about the sea wall, the burnt pancakes or the song you both pretend to hate. That is what goes in the book, and why it means more than anything you could buy in a shop, for a girlfriend, a boyfriend, a fiancé or a fiancée.

Make it without them knowing: the photos you already have are enough. Celebrate a first anniversary, an engagement or ten years together.

See it free
A woman sliding a wrapped picture book across a café table to her partner, who covers her mouth in surprise
The handover. Hands over mouth is normal.
Two men laughing together over the picture book about them in their kitchen

Every couple fits

Two women, two men, a couple who met at sixteen or at sixty, long distance or the flat upstairs. You tell us who you are and the story is written around you, with your pronouns and your names for each other.

Add up to two more people, a best friend or a child, and up to two pets.

Your story, your people, your names for each other.

See it free

Twelve ways to draw it

Our picks for couples: Retro print, Anime and Oil painting. Every style works for every book.

See every style side by side

Sizes and prices

Hardback, 32 pages, delivery to your door and VAT included.

Classic square
20 × 20 cm · 8 × 8 in · easy for little hands
£34
Wide landscape
28 × 21 cm · 11 × 8.3 in · big scenes across both pages
£39
Large square
28 × 28 cm · 11 × 11 in · the coffee-table keepsake
£44
Every extra copy
any size, from the mini book at £12; sent to another address for £3 more
from £12

Why £34? A hardback drawn from your own photos, with up to five people and two pets, written for them and posted to your door. One payment, no subscription. A softcover mini book on its own is £29.

See it free
Square hardback picture books with printed covers in seven colours
Every occasion has its own colour.

Ordering opens soon

You can make the book today and see your characters, the cover and two pages free. Ordering for Our Story So Far isn’t open yet: leave your email and we’ll write the day it opens.

  • See it before you pay. Your characters, the cover and two pages are free, and we redraw what isn’t right (three redraws per person before you order).
  • You check every page. We email you the finished book: change any page, or say yes. If we haven’t heard from you within 12 hours, we print it as shown so it arrives on time.
  • Cancel before we print. Not happy with the finished pages? Cancel before we print and get a full refund.
  • Free reprint. If it arrives damaged or with a mistake we made, we print it again, free.
  • Printed close to home. In the UK, with no customs fees, posted with tracked delivery.

Questions, answered

When can I order?

Ordering for Our Story So Far opens soon. You can make the book now and see your characters, the cover and two pages free; leave your email and we will write the day it opens.

Can I make it without my partner knowing?

Yes. The photos already on your phone are enough, and everything is sent to you, not to them.

Is it for married couples too?

It works for any couple at any stage. For a wedding anniversary with the wedding day and the family in it, our wedding anniversary book is made for that.

Does it work for same-sex couples?

Of course. You choose the names, the pronouns and how you call each other, and the story is written around the two of you.

Do I need photos?

No. One to three photos of each of you give the best likeness, or build both of you in the character maker instead.

What if we don’t look like us?

You see the two of you, the cover and two pages free before you order. Tell us what to change and we redraw it. You check every page before we print, with 12 hours to ask for changes.

How personal can it get?

As personal as you like. Give us the moments in a few lines and we write the pages in your words; you can change any line before printing.

What happens to our photos?

They are used only to draw your book and never to train AI. We delete them 30 days after your book is delivered, and drafts that are never ordered after 60 days.

What if it arrives damaged?

Send us a photo and we reprint it free.

Where do you deliver?

To addresses in the United Kingdom and the United States, printed in the country it goes to. We can’t deliver anywhere else yet.

Can I cancel?

Yes, until we print. If you are not happy with the finished pages, cancel before we print and we refund you in full. Once it is printed, a book made for your family can’t be returned, but anything damaged or wrong on our side is reprinted free.

More in the full questions page, or write to [email protected].

A book for every occasion

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