An anniversary star map: the sky from your night

Choosing the night

An anniversary star map shows one night, so the first decision is which one. Most people choose the moment their story starts:

• The night you met, for the anniversary of being together.
• Your first date, if that is the one you both still talk about.
• The proposal, for an engagement anniversary.
• Your wedding night, for a wedding anniversary.

You need the place, the date and roughly the time. A city is enough for the place. If the time is a guess, the sky is still the sky from that night; it is just turned a little.

What to write on it

Under the stars go your own words. A good anniversary star map usually has three things: your names, the date and place, and one line that means something to you both. That line can be a lyric, a phrase from your vows, or the thing one of you said that night.

Start from the anniversary wording if you are stuck: “The Night We Met” with “Love now, always and forever.” underneath. Every word can be changed.

A star map and the moon from the same night

For a pair, add a moon phase print of the same night: the whole sky on one, the moon as it hung that night on the other. Curious what it looked like? Look up the moon on any date.

What you get

Today it comes as a high-resolution digital file for USD $29, emailed within minutes and sized to print sharply at 18×24 inches, a standard frame size, at any print shop or photo lab. Printed and framed versions from us are coming soon. A second design in the same order is 25% off.