On February 14 everybody receives the same three things. A link is the one gift that is not also sitting on four other desks - your words, your photos, and something sealed that does not open until next Valentine's.
No credit card to start. Nothing to install for you or for them.
Three steps, about two minutes, zero coding.
Everyone gets told they are loved on the 14th. Name one specific thing they did this year instead - that is the part nobody else will send.
The trip, the bad haircut, the night in with takeout. A year in pictures beats a stock rose every time.
Lock a letter dated February 14 next year. They will spend twelve months knowing it is sitting there.
Valentine's Day has a short shelf life: the flowers are gone by the 20th and the card ends up in a drawer. A Vellum archive is the version that outlives the week - a letter set like a book, a gallery of your year, the sky from the night you met, and a sealed chapter dated February 14 next year that opens on its own without you remembering to do anything.
It opens as a private midnight museum: a hall of doors, one per chapter, walked one at a time. Each door is a room - the letter written out by hand, the gallery, the star map, and the sealed door that will not open until its date.
Your words set like a fine book and revealed slowly, not a text bubble.
Your photos hung and captioned like a small private exhibit.
The sky from the night you met, drawn as a constellation they can turn.
Locked now, opening on dates you choose. The gift arrives again for years.
Your actual voice, kept. The thing nobody forgets the sound of.
They can seal a letter back that only you can open. It takes both of you.
$12 for a chapter, $29 for the full archive. One time, never a subscription - and you can compose and preview the whole thing before you pay anything.
If you want something to land at midnight on the 14th, an animated Love Letter is a sealed envelope on their phone that reveals your words one line at a time.
A sealed envelope arrives at a private link. It breaks open on their screen and your words appear a line at a time, with your photos, music, and an ending nobody sees coming.
Three sizes of the same idea. Most people start free and upgrade when the occasion is worth it.
One question, your photos, a theme, the runaway NO button. Two minutes.
Best for asking, or a quick lift on an ordinary day.
A sealed envelope, your words revealed line by line, photos and music.
Best for a birthday, an apology, or a real letter.
A museum of the two of you, with sealed chapters that open on future dates.
Best for anniversaries, milestones, and years of history.
Valentine's Day
A first Valentine's together
A Valentine's apart
Asking someone to be your valentine
Valentine's Week, day by day
An anti-Valentine's joke
Short, specific, and in your real voice beats long and poetic every time. Steal any of these and change the details to yours.
More to steal: Valentine's Week 2027, day by day, Valentine's gifts for her, and Valentine's gifts for him.
A message gets buried by lunchtime. A page opens full-screen, gets screenshotted, and gets shown to people.
Sealed chapters open on dates you set, so the same gift lands again next year without you lifting a finger.
No delivery date, no app, no account for them. One link, opening the same anywhere in the world.
A private page you can send in about two minutes. There is no shipping cutoff and nothing to collect, so it works just as well at 11pm on February 13 as it does a month ahead. Write your message, add a few photos, and send the link.
Something with your specific year in it rather than a generic card. A Vellum archive suits Valentine's because it holds more than one message - a letter, a photo gallery, a star map of the night you met, and sealed letters timed to open on future dates. It is a one-time purchase, not a subscription.
Yes, and it is the thing people remember. A Vellum archive lets you seal chapters that stay locked until a date you choose - your next anniversary, a birthday, a year from now. The sealed door shows a countdown and nothing else until the day arrives, then it opens on its own. One gift that keeps landing instead of one that gets opened once.
Yes. You send the link yourself, so the timing is entirely yours - most people send it at midnight. If you would rather something opened on its own on the day, that is what a sealed Vellum chapter does.
That is where it works best. It is a link, so it arrives instantly anywhere in the world with no customs form and no delivery date to miss, and it opens full-screen on their phone with nothing to install.
Making and sending a Valentine's page is free. The keepsake versions - an animated Love Letter, or a Vellum archive with sealed time-released chapters - are one-time purchases with no subscription.
Make it something worth keeping
Compose the whole archive, walk through it yourself, and only pay if you want to send it. Or start with the free page and upgrade later.