From $79.00 to a marker on the stone.
1. You write it, before you spend anything
Creating an account is free. Most people paste in the obituary they already wrote for the funeral home and 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. Nothing is public until you say so.
2. You order a marker when you are ready
$79.00 covers the brass marker, its engraved code, and shipping inside the United States. There is no subscription and no renewal notice. We think a recurring bill attached to a grave is a grim idea.
Markers are made in advance, each already carrying its own permanent web address, so yours is posted the day you order rather than weeks later. That address becomes your memorial's address the moment you attach the marker to it, and it never changes again.
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 when it is ready
Publishing is the moment you decide the page can be read. Scanned before then, the code says the memorial is being prepared - which is true, and far better than an error.
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
The address is engraved on the marker before it reaches you, and it becomes your memorial's address when you attach the two together. 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.