Love Book Guides

Whether to give a personalized love book as a PDF, a printed paperback, or both. What each format is good at, and the practical differences that decide it.

How long a personalized love book actually takes to make, why the deciding takes longer than the making, and how much margin to leave if you need a printed copy by a date.

How long a personalized love book should be, why most land between 10 and 20 pages, and what changes if you want it printed.

How to turn your relationship into an illustrated love book — what to include, how to structure it, which photos work, and what to expect from the process.

What to do when you have almost no photos together — why an illustrated book handles this better than an album, and how to build pages from memory instead.

How old prints, scans, and low-resolution photos work in an illustrated book, why damage matters less than you would expect, and how to photograph a print properly.

Which photos produce a good likeness, which memories make good pages, and why the two are different jobs. Practical advice on picking photos for an illustrated storybook.

Captions carry the story between illustrations. How long they should be, what they should say, and the two failure modes that make a book read flat.

The first page is the one most people rewrite and the one most likely to be read aloud. A method for writing a dedication that sounds like you, with examples of what works.

The how-we-met story is the hardest page to write and the one people rewrite most. A practical method for getting it down, with the mistakes that make it read flat.