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The living archive of the two of you.
Not a card you open once. A private museum of your relationship - that unseals itself, one chapter at a time, for the rest of your lives.
The idea
Vellum keeps the story instead - and gives it back across the years. You compose it once, quietly and beautifully. Then it lives: sealing letters for the future, gathering each anniversary, arriving on the dates that matter.
What’s kept inside
Your words, revealed slowly and set like a fine book - not a text bubble.
Your photos, hung and captioned like a small private exhibit.
The sky the night you met, drawn as a constellation they can turn.
Letters you lock now that open on a future date - an anniversary, a someday.
Your actual voice, kept. The thing nobody ever forgets the sound of.
The map of where you've been and the years you've spent getting here.
Why it lasts
Sealed chapters unlock on the dates you choose. The gift keeps arriving for years, not once.
An archive deepens when you both add to it - so it can't be copied from the outside.
Every anniversary can add a new chapter. Years on, it isn't a card - it's a volume.
Instead of flowers
Flowers are lovely for a week. Chocolates are gone by Sunday. Both are given because they’re easy to buy - not because they’re the thing your person would keep. An archive is the opposite trade: less to hold, far more to return to.
Cut flowers get about a week, and everyone knows it while they're still beautiful. An archive doesn't have a date it starts dying on.
Sealed letters open on the dates you choose. One gift, landing again on your anniversary, and the one after that.
The same bouquet is on sale to everyone in your city. Your words, your photographs and the sky the night you met are not.
No delivery window, no country, no wilting in transit. It opens on any phone, wherever they happen to be standing.
No vase to find, nothing dropping petals on the table, nothing to quietly throw out on the ninth day.
Flowers peak the hour they arrive. An archive is at its least valuable today and its most valuable in ten years.
Side by side
| What we’re comparing | A bouquet | A Vellum archive |
|---|---|---|
| What you pay | Usually $60–$80 delivered | $29, once |
| How long it lasts | Five to seven days in water | As long as the two of you keep it |
| Next anniversary | Buy another one | Add a chapter to the same one |
| Can they revisit it | A photo of it, maybe | Any night, from any phone |
| Who else could give it | Anyone, to anyone | Only you - it's built from your story |
| In ten years | Nothing | Ten chapters and letters still sealed |
Which is the honest arithmetic of it: one bouquet costs more than the whole archive, and the archive is still there on your tenth anniversary. Flower prices vary - the comparison is a typical delivered arrangement, not a promise.
How it’s kept
A Chapter
The entry gift
The Archive
The living keepsake
A one-time keepsake - no subscription. Your price is shown at checkout.
Questions
Vellum is a private, beautifully designed archive of your relationship - a link your partner opens like walking through a small museum of the two of you.
No. Vellum is a one-time keepsake, never a subscription.
A letter, a photo gallery, the places you've been, a star map of the night you met, a voice note, and letters you seal to open on a future date.
Yes - a Vellum archive is meant to grow. You can keep adding chapters, and sealed letters unlock on the dates you choose.
They get a private link - no app, no account, works on any phone.
Flowers are a lovely gesture that says almost nothing specific - the same arrangement is on sale to everyone in your city. An archive is made of your words, your photographs, the places you've been and the sky the night you met. It takes longer to make, which is most of the point, and it's still there long after a bouquet would have been thrown out.
A delivered bouquet typically costs more than a Vellum archive and lasts about a week. The archive is a one-time $29 and doesn't need replacing next year - you add a chapter to the same one instead. Flower prices vary by city and season, so compare it against what you'd actually spend.
Many people do. Bring the flowers, and let the archive be the part they still have in five years - it's the keepsake, not the substitute for a nice evening.