They will spend thousands remembering how the day looked. They will spend nothing preserving what they actually said. You are usually the only person holding a copy of the vows.
The dress is boxed. The flowers are pressed. The photographs are backed up in three places. The promise is spoken once, into a field, and then it is gone.
Every one of these happens to couples who cared enormously about the words. Caring was never the problem.
They agonised over every line for a month and a half. It took ninety seconds to say. Nobody wrote it down.
The ceremony script sits in your folder or your drive. You are, quietly, the archive of their marriage. Until you clear out old files.
Their story, their vows, their whole page. Rented from a company for a year or two. Then the card expires and it simply resolves to nothing.
Ask any couple what they promised. They will remember the feeling, and paraphrase badly, and be a little sad about it.
You already hold the words. This simply gives them somewhere permanent to live, and it comes from you.
The single promise at the heart of it. The sentence one of them will still be quoting at a fiftieth anniversary dinner.
Hers and his, or hers and hers, exactly as written. The whole ceremony if they want it. Public, so their children can read it one day.
What they would say to each other a decade from now. Or a letter to a child not yet born. Sealed with a phrase, opened only when the day comes.
Both sets of vows, the readings, the address. A full record holds many times a ceremony's length at the flat price.
Nobody needs a permanent record on their wedding day. They need it on the anniversary they had forgotten they would live to see.
One payment on the day. No account, no subscription, no card that expires in year three.
A public record sits in an open ledger. Their children, and anyone else, can read it without asking us.
A sealed record opens only with their phrase. Not with ours. We never receive it and could not read the letter if we tried.
Send us a sentence and we will write it into Bitcoin for you, free. See the whole thing work before you offer it to a single couple.
Celebrants who offer PermaWord to their couples earn a commission on every record. We will explain it once you have seen the thing itself.