Write a handwritten letter to your partner on any anniversary. We'll deliver it back to the two of you exactly one year later — on the anniversary after this one.
Most anniversaries pass the same way. A nice dinner, a thoughtful card, maybe a gift you picked because you ran out of better ideas. The day is over in a few hours, and if you're honest you remember very little of what you said to each other by the time next year rolls around. Anniversaries are supposed to be the day we pause to say something true, and most of us run out of fresh words for it somewhere around the fifth one.
A letter is the cure for that. You sit down on this anniversary — or the week of it — and you write, by hand, the specific things you want your partner to remember about where you are right now. The past year of your relationship, in detail. The moments you're still laughing about. The hard months and what you learned about each other. The version of them that you're grateful for this year, specifically. Then you seal it, mail it to us, and one year from now it arrives — on your next anniversary, in your handwriting, from a year-younger version of your relationship.
That's the trick: by the time the letter arrives, you've both changed. The year has done things to both of you that neither of you could have predicted. You'll open a letter written by two people who don't know yet what you now know — and it becomes a document of a version of your marriage that only exists in that envelope. Done yearly, this is the most powerful anniversary tradition we've ever seen. Forget the dinner reservation. The letter is the anniversary.
Three simple steps. One beautiful moment, later.
Pour your heart onto paper. Use our Letter Helper if you'd like prompts. You decide when it should be opened — 1 year or 2 years from now.
Mail your sealed letter to our PO Box. We store it in a climate-controlled, fireproof safe — untouched, unopened, waiting.
On your chosen date, we mail your original, handwritten letter with tracking. Your words arrive exactly when they're meant to.
Your letter is in safe hands
You're trusting us with something irreplaceable. Here's what we do about that.
Letters are stored in climate-controlled, fireproof safes — not filing cabinets or cardboard boxes. We treat every letter as irreplaceable, because to someone, it is.
Every letter ships with an active tracking number, so you (or the recipient) know exactly when it's on its way.
If your address changes before your delivery date, email us anytime and we'll update your file. Your letter follows you — no extra fee.
If Hold My Letter ever closes, every stored letter is immediately mailed back to the sender's return address. No exceptions.
One letter. One delivery. One beautiful moment when it returns.
Emailed on your chosen date between 6 months and 2 years out. Add physical mailing for a small fee. Available worldwide — the right choice if you're writing to (or from) outside the United States.
One-time payment
+$12 to add physical mailing (first address)
One-time payment
+$12 to add physical mailing (first address)
Physical mailing add-on: +$12 for the first address. Each additional unique address: +$2.
The original Hold My Letter experience. Handwrite your letter, seal the envelope, and mail it to our PO Box. We store it in a climate-controlled, fireproof safe until your chosen delivery date — then send it back with tracking, still sealed.
One-time payment
One-time payment
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