A wedding gift for the couple: the story of how they met

The registry covers the toaster. Give the couple something no registry can: their own love story, written as a novel, arriving on the wedding day.

Start a wedding gift

Wedding gifts tend to split into the practical (whatever is left on the registry) and the sentimental (a framed print with the date on it). Both are welcome. Neither tells the story of the couple, which is the thing everyone at the wedding has come to celebrate.

A Novellum book does. Tell us how they met, the first date that went wrong, the dog, the proposal, the town where they are getting married. Pick romance on its own, or romance and comedy for a couple who laugh at themselves. We write a whole novel about them, and nobody else ever gets it. It pairs well with a registry gift as a second, personal present.

It costs from $2.99 and arrives by email on the day you choose: the wedding morning, the first day of the honeymoon, or their first anniversary, which is traditionally paper.

A real page one

This is how one of our books begins. The brief: Ben and Clara Whitfield met reaching for the last bag of cider doughnuts at an orchard in Vermont, where they are getting married in October (romance and comedy). The hero is invented.

The line at Halloway Orchard moved like polite traffic. Ben Whitfield held a paper cup of steaming cider and watched the woman ahead of him turn in slow, decisive circles to examine every remaining bag of cider doughnuts. He knew the math of small Vermont towns and autumn weekends. If she did not grab the last bag in the next ten seconds someone with a stroller or a college kid in a beanie would, and then this would become a moral calculus involving sugar and regret. He stepped forward.

A real opening Novellum wrote for an example brief, quoted unedited. Your book starts from your brief, and you read its page one free before you pay.

How it works

  1. Pick up to two genres and name the hero.
  2. Tell us the story in your own words: names, places, the details only you know. Then read page one free, with no account and no card.
  3. Tick "This is a gift" and add their name and email, your message and the day it should arrive.
  4. We write the whole book, usually in about two hours, and hold it until the day. Then they get your card and their book as an EPUB and a PDF.

What it costs

Short novel, about 30,000 words$2.99
Short novel with its narrated audiobook$7.99
Medium novel, about 60,000 words$4.99
Full novel, about 95,000 words$6.99
Bundle: three Medium books, one now and two codes to give later$13.99

Prices in US dollars, the same everywhere. You pay only after you have read page one.

Who receives the book?

The gift goes to one email address. Choose either of the couple and address your message to both.

Can it arrive on the wedding day?

Yes. Tick "This is a gift" and choose the date. Cards go out at 13:00 UTC, which is morning across the US; choose the day after if you would rather not interrupt the day itself.

Can the wedding party chip in?

Yes. Collect stories from the bridal party and friends, and one person writes them into the brief, up to 2,000 characters.

Will it be suitable to read at the reception?

Ask for a warm, light tone in the brief and read page one free before you pay. Page one makes a good toast.

What does it cost?

From $2.99 for a Short novel, $4.99 for a Medium, $6.99 for a Full. Add a narrated audiobook to the Short for $7.99 in all.

Is it written by AI?

Yes. It is written by AI for one reader and says so on its final page.

More ideas

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Questions? Write to us. Novellum books are written by AI, for one reader only.