Examples
Before you scroll
These are real maps. No two are alike, because no two stories are, some are sparse and doodle-like, others dense with architecture. Both are the same style; the difference is how much detail the brief carried. Click any map to read it full size, which is the only way to see the named pubs, campuses and houses that make each one specific.
Real maps
Made for real couples
Ordered roughly from the shortest story to the longest. Every one was made to a brief written by the person giving it.
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Colten & Jenna Our First Year · One year, wedding to first anniversary
A map of one year exactly: the wedding in Springfield, first Christmas in their own home, a weekend in Arkansas, two mission trips, a summer picnic, a baby announced, and the first anniversary at the end.
Dense line work
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Kelly & Mo Our Love Map · Three years, app to first baby
Matched on Hinge in January, first date at The Alma pub in Crystal Palace, a first holiday in Tenerife, moved in together in Tonbridge, engaged on a beach in South Carolina, a first home, a barn wedding, and a baby boy on the way.
Dense line work
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Chelsea & Mason Our Love Map · Seven years and five house moves
Met at a golf club outside Chicago, said it first in York Pennsylvania, then Florida, Michigan, Texas and back again, engaged at a brewery, married in the Vermont mountains, and home to Florida at the end.
Dense line work
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Gaby & Des Our Love Map · Six years, New York to Connecticut
First date in Manhattan, official in Queens, a first trip to Puerto Rico, a Bronx apartment, a dog called Bowie, lockdown together, Barcelona and Paris, engaged on the High Line, homeowners in Connecticut, and married at home.
Dense line work
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Jon & Terrie Our Love Map · Nine years, Florida to Wisconsin
Met at a university gym in Orlando, a first re-date at The Florida Room four years later, a first apartment, engaged at Mount Rainier, a move to Wisconsin, married back in Orlando, and Italy to come.
Dense line work
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Kennedy & Camron Our Love Map · Ten years, campus to first child
Met at Bowling Green State University, first date in Westlake, engaged in Chicago, two autumns in Hocking Hills, a cat called Neil, married back where they met, a first home in Michigan, and a daughter.
Dense line work
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Matt & Corey Our Love Map · Three years around the Chesapeake
First date at McGarvey's in Annapolis, officially dating three weeks later in Baltimore, a road trip to Surf City with the dog, moved in together, hosted their first Thanksgiving, engaged in Charleston, married on a boat, and off to the coast.
Dense line work
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Meghan & Francis Our Love Map · Ten years, one coffee shop twice
Met online in 2016, first date at Endgrain Coffee Shop, moved in together, got through the shutdown, and got engaged in the same coffee shop, ending on a double anniversary: ten years together and five married.
Dense line work
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Bianca & Ciprian Our Love Map · Twelve years, university to a mountain summit
Met at university in 2014, a winter holiday, officially together, moved in, engaged on a hillside, a trip to Georgia, the wedding, a cruise honeymoon, a road trip, and finishing on the summit of Romania's highest mountain.
Dense line work
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Katie & Lindsay Our Love Map · Seven years in Scotland
School in 2018, a farm, medical school in Dundee, pizza nights at one particular takeaway, a cottage in Sorn, winter log deliveries, an Italian road trip, and engaged at Dunkeld, with their own lines pinned along the road.
Dense line work
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Shane & Beth The Story of Us · Seven years, London to Northern Ireland
Met at a house share in Tooting, lived together in south London, a first big holiday on the Amalfi Coast, engaged in the Cotswolds, married at a hotel in Kent, honeymoon in Cancun, and a first home in Northern Ireland.
Dense line work
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Sedale & Stephanie Our Love Map · Twelve years, university to family
Started dating at UVA in 2010, moved in together in Arlington, engaged the same year they got the cat, married in Washington DC, bought a first home in Alexandria, and welcomed their son.
Open, fewer stops
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Will & Olivia Our Love Map · Two years, with a letter on it
A university library, a first date in Saratoga Springs, four months across Europe, graduation, and a next chapter in New York, with a handwritten anniversary note lettered into the space at the bottom.
Open, fewer stops
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Dan & Taylor Our Love Map · Six years, London to Crete
A first date at a London comedy club, a first holiday in Turkey, engaged on a bench in Greenwich Park, married in Chania on Crete, and a honeymoon in Thailand, five stops, and a lot of white space.
Open, fewer stops
What they look like printed
Framed, in situ, and up close
Printed at 30 × 45 cm and 50 × 75 cm, in black and oak frames.
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Printed at 30 × 45 cm in a thin black frame.
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Oak frame, soft daylight, the most requested styling.
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At 50 × 75 cm the smallest labels stay easy to read.
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You receive the file itself, print it at any 2:3 size, as many times as you like.
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Detail at 300 DPI on matte art paper.
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A few of the milestone illustrations. Yours are drawn to match your story.
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Paired with a simple botanical print in a gallery wall.
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One map, four rooms.
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Reading the examples
What the good ones have in common
The maps people love most are not the ones with the best holidays on them. They are the ones where the small, specific things made it onto the paper: one particular pizza takeaway, a log-delivery lorry with a Christmas hat on it, a cat called Neil, a first Thanksgiving, a bench with two initials carved into it, a bone tag on a pick-up truck.
Notice how often the strongest stop is unglamorous. Meghan and Francis got engaged in the same coffee shop as their first date. Matt and Corey put hosting Thanksgiving on theirs. Jon and Terrie labelled a stop first re-date, which tells you more about them than a holiday would.
That is a brief question rather than a drawing question. The difference between a generic map and a specific one is whether the brief named the places and said what made them distinctive, which is entirely within your control before you order.
Milestone ideas to borrow → · how many to choose → · what 24 couples chose →
The heading
The title is yours to choose too
The words lettered across the top are not fixed. Across the maps above they read Our First Year, Our Love Map, The Story of Us, and one delivered map is lettered entirely in German as Unsere Liebeskarte. Send the heading you want with your brief.