From $49.99 to a marker on the stone.
1. You pay once, and then nothing again
$49.99 covers the brass marker, the engraving, shipping inside the United States, and the memorial page. There is no subscription and no renewal notice. We think a recurring bill attached to a grave is a grim idea.
2. You build the page in your own time
Straight after payment you set a password and start writing. Most people paste in the obituary they already wrote for the funeral home and then add to it over the following weeks. Everything saves as you go, and you can leave it half-finished for as long as you like.
Photographs come from wherever you have them — a phone, a scanner, a shoebox. Up to thirty. Location data is stripped from every file before we store it, because phone photographs of a family home carry the coordinates of that home.
3. Everything is reviewed before it can go live
Each photograph and each block of text is read by an automated reviewer before publication. Anything it is unsure about goes to a person instead. Nothing skips the check because a system was down — when our review cannot run, the item waits for a human rather than sliding through.
Read exactly what we will and will not publish.
4. You publish, and only then do we engrave
Publishing is what sends your marker to the engraver. We do this deliberately in that order: a QR code bonded to granite that leads to an empty page is worse than no marker at all.
The marker arrives with adhesive suitable for polished stone and a short instruction card. Check with the cemetery before you fix anything to a monument — a great many have written rules about it, and some require permission in writing.
The address never changes
Your memorial gets a short, permanent web address the moment you buy. That is what we etch, and it is fixed for the life of the page. You can rewrite every word, replace every photograph, add a second person a decade from now — the code on the stone keeps working.
It is printed in plain text on the marker as well, so a phone that cannot read the code can still be typed into.