About Printed Weddings

Printed Weddings makes one kind of thing well: a keepsake of the two of you. Upload a favourite photo (the first dance, the confetti, the quiet moment after) and we paint it in oil, watercolour, pencil or pop art, then print it on gallery canvas or framed, in the UK.

You see a free preview before you spend a penny. Or we'll print your photo exactly as it is, checked honestly against every size we sell. Prefer words to a picture? The wedding-date print sets your names, the date and the venue in timeless type.

Everything is made to order in the UK and posted with free UK delivery. Nothing sits in a warehouse; nothing is printed until a couple somewhere is getting a gift.

How the guides are written

We are not wedding planners and we do not pretend to be. What we can offer instead is a practice: the anniversary and etiquette pages on this site are traced to a primary source, and where there is no source we say so rather than repeating what everybody else repeats.

In practice that means the year-by-year materials come from Debrett's rather than from a gift blog; the rule about which anniversaries get a message from the King is quoted from GOV.UK; hallmarking comes from the Goldsmiths' Company Assay Office and from Business Companion, the government-backed Trading Standards guidance; and the reason you cannot buy ivory for a fourteenth anniversary is the Ivory Act 2018 on gov.uk.

What that discipline costs us

It is easy to claim sourcing and hard to show it, so here is what it has actually meant.

We had published, on our own first-anniversary page, that the modern anniversary list was introduced by the Chicago Public Library in 1937. Checked properly, it does not hold up: the 1937 list is credited to the American National Retail Jeweler Association, and the library publishes no such list. We corrected our own page and said why.

We do not have a page on anniversary flowers and colours, because we could not find an authority for one. Debrett's assigns no flowers at any year, and the florists' charts disagree with each other. A page would have been easy and would have ranked; it would also have been made up.

And where a fact is contested we say it is contested rather than picking the confident version. The attribution of the modern list reaches us through a 2001 book rather than a surviving 1937 document, so we describe it as an attribution, not a fact.

What we sell, and where it sits

The guides are free to read and carry no obligation. Where something we make is genuinely relevant to what a page has just explained, it appears once, below the part you came for. Where it is not relevant, it does not appear. That is the whole arrangement.

Start with the free anniversary lookup or the whole path, from getting engaged through to the golden wedding.