Each Chronicle is written and designed to meet your specific aims. Some have been fun and written for younger family members, others have taken a more formal approach. All were professionally printed and bound to be treasured in private book shelves and on home coffee tables.
Family History: Frankie and Riet
Frank and Maria's story begins on the opposite side of the world. He grew up in Holland, one voice within a bustling household, and later found himself stationed in Indonesia during World War II, and later, spent years threading trucks through a recovering Europe. She trained as a midwife, hands steady at the center of countless new beginnings. By fate or chance, both landed in New Zealand at around the same time. Friends introduced them, love followed fast, and together they stitched together a life from small businesses and Sunday dinners, raising a family as tightly knit as those they had know in the country they'd left behind.
(162 pages)
Family History: Been There - Done That
He had a first chapter. So did she. Kids, marriages, the whole story already written ... until it wasn't. David and Delphine found each other later in life, built a string of successful businesses from the ground up, then cashed out for small-town life. But retirement didn't mean slowing down. Community involvement, local causes, and passports that never collected dust.
(250 pages)
Celebration Chronicle: Suzie and Craig's Wedding
Before the vows were spoken, Suzie and Craig sat down to trace the path that led them here - the story of how they found each other, the moment one of them dropped to a knee, and the future they were busy building together. Then the celebration began, and a quiet booth in the corner of the reception became something magical: a place where guests stepped inside to leave behind not just well-wishes, but real advice, raw laughter, and the kind of wisdom only loved ones can give. Every speech was captured as it happened, transcribed and gently shaped into something permanent. And woven through every page, photographs that catch the glances, the tears, and the joy of a day that belonged to them.
(70 pages)
Celebration Chronicle: Fifty is the new Forty ... Yeah Right!
Fifty years. Zero filter. Styled after the iconic Tui Billboards, this Chronicle doesn't whisper, it winks. Family and friends were cornered with three questions designed to stir trouble and tell truths. The result? A book dripping with quotes, candid photos, and images that land every punchline. The french fold binding gives it weight - this isn't a flimsy memory booklet, it's a brick of a celebration. Fifty pages of curated chaos, plus blank spreads at the back for the real stuff: handwritten dedications, pressed flowers, and the cards that keep on giving.
Celebration Chronicle: Amanda and Jason's Wedding
Before the vows, Amanda and Jason sat down to trace their whole story; how they met, what they'd come to love about each other, and the proposal that still makes them grin. Afterwards, they returned to reflect again: on the wedding day itself, on what it meant, and on the future unfolding ahead. Their words, captured through intimate interviews, weave through every page alongside photographs that catch the light, and speech transcripts that hold the laughter and the promises. It’s not just a record of a day or a sanitised wedding album, it's the beginning of their love story.
(75pages)
Family History: Grandma Wasn't Always a Hobbly Old Lady
Anne's story begins in childhood and study, before taking flight to teach dental nursing far from home. She built a life on a Coromandel farm, married, raised two children, and knew the fullness of love. Then came the unthinkable: her husband's sudden death, and the quiet work of carrying on. But Anne didn't stop. Her retirement became its own adventure: travel, volunteer work, a life still opening outward. This is the journey of a woman who kept moving forward, through every chapter, with grace and grit.
(162 pages)
Family Memoir Chronicle: Nola on Motherhood
Nola's path into motherhood wasn't sudden; it was something she was quietly prepared for since girlhood. Marriage came, then seven children, and a life shaped by the rhythms of rural and small-town New Zealand. The sense of inevitability is striking, yet Nola never sounds resigned. She sounds content. Deeply, genuinely content. Her world centred on her children, and later her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and she found her purpose there. This is the story of a woman who didn't lose herself to motherhood; she built herself within it, generation after generation.
(35 pages)