The celebration guide
Seven ways
to spend the day.
No booking required
Start here · 01
Re-read your vows at home
Light one candle, pour what you drank at the wedding, and read your vows aloud to each other. Couples call it the single most moving hour of year one.
02 · Letters
Write the year-one letters
Each write one page: favourite moment, hardest moment, hope for year two. Seal; open on year five.
03 · Food
Recreate the wedding menu
Cook one course from the wedding breakfast — even badly. Print the menu card as a keepsake.
04 · Outdoors
Time-capsule picnic
Take a picnic where you got engaged. Bury (or drawer) predictions for year ten with the date on top.
05 · Film
Screen your wedding film
Project it, sheet on the wall, popcorn. Pause on the faces you miss and write them a thank-you card.
06 · Craft
Fold 1,000 cranes — start
Fold the first 50 together on the night. One wish per crane; string them across the hallway.
07 · Book
Begin the memory book
Stick in the anniversary card, the receipt, the playlist. Year one's mess is year ten's treasure.
The evening script
A perfect paper night, hour by hour
Unwrap gifts. Read cards aloud — no skimming.
Cook the wedding dish. Photograph the chaos.
Re-read vows. Write the year-one letters.
First dance in the kitchen. Seal the time capsule.