Every reason you love them, in a book that looks like you both.
Answer a few questions about them and we'll help you write fifty reasons only you could give, illustrated with characters who look like the real people.
Free to start. No account needed. Look inside a sample
- Free reprint or full refund if it arrives damaged
- 21.6 cm square, matte hardcover, thick coated paper
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Made for Christmas
Order printed books by Monday 7 December for UK delivery. The digital book opens as soon as you pay.
Reasons I Love You This Christmas
For your partner · from Usual price
20% off, ends Sunday£9, now £7.20
Our First Christmas
For your partner · from Usual price
20% off, ends Sunday£9, now £7.20
Merry Christmas, Mum
For Mum · from Usual price
20% off, ends Sunday£9, now £7.20
Merry Christmas, Dad
For Dad · from Usual price
20% off, ends Sunday£9, now £7.20
Made to be kept, not skimmed
21.6 cm square, softcover or hardcover, with a digital flipbook to send tonight.
In their hands
A square hardcover with their name on it and your people on the cover.
One reason per page
Your characters on every page, in the style you chose.
Gift-ready
A box, a ribbon and their name on the cover.
On the shelf for good
The one they'll pick up again in ten years.
A note from Sharon, who started Darling Reasons
Hello, I'm Sharon. I started Darling Reasons because the things we love most about the people closest to us are the ones we rarely say out loud: the small habits, the way they look after us, the moments only we noticed.
A book of fifty reasons gives those words somewhere to live, long after the card has gone. Every book is made to order, and if anything isn't right, write to me and I'll put it right.
Sharon
Who are you making a book for?
Start with a title, then make it theirs
Every book has a dedication, fifty reasons and your characters on the cover.
- Editor's pick
Reasons I Love You
For your partner · from Usual price
20% off, ends Sunday£9, now £7.20 - Editor's pick
Years of Reasons
For your partner · from Usual price
20% off, ends Sunday£9, now £7.20 - Christmas pick
What I Love About You, Mum
For Mum · from Usual price
20% off, ends Sunday£9, now £7.20 - Christmas pick
Why You're the Best Dad
For Dad · from Usual price
20% off, ends Sunday£9, now £7.20
Characters that actually look like them.
Ten skin tones. Sixteen hairstyles, from locs and box braids to a shaved head. Hijabs, turbans and headwraps, glasses, hearing aids and wheelchairs, freckles, vitiligo and the dog. You choose the details in two minutes; we illustrate them and check every one.
What we'll illustrate
Emma
- Woman
- Light skin
- Brown hair, long waves
- Stud earrings
- Coral jumper
James
- Man
- Very light skin
- Dark brown hair, short
- Stubble
- Navy shirt
Next you pick a style, and we illustrate three versions to choose from, each checked against these details.
Every family, every kind of love
Matt and Alfie
Kofi and Esi
Margaret and Peter
Priya and Chloe
Harpreet and Simran
Ellie and Jack
Aisha and Zara
Rose and Joseph
Mei and Lena
Kate and Ruby
Sam and Jules
Dan and Biscuit
The same two people, in every illustration style.
Pick the style that feels like them. It carries through the cover and every page. More styles are on the way.
Storybook
Warm gouache, like a favourite picture book.
Watercolour
Loose washes and fine ink lines.
Paper cut
Layered cut paper with soft shadows.
Linocut
Hand-carved print, bold and warm.
Or draw them as animals.
A picture-book version of your people: a big bear and a little cub, a duck and her duckling, or two otters in love. Grown-ups, little ones and grandparents each keep their size, their clothes and their glasses, on the cover and every page.
Give it for the moments that matter
Twenty minutes of remembering. A book they'll keep for life.
1 Choose who it's for
Partner, mum, best friend, grandparents, a teacher, or the dog. The questions and the book change to suit them.
A few seconds
2 Make the characters
Choose skin, hair, head coverings, glasses and pets in two minutes. Then pick a style and choose from three illustrations.
About two minutes
What do they do that nobody else notices?
Saves me the last roast potato, every time
3 Write your reasons
Answer a few questions about real moments. We help turn them into drafts using only what you told us. Keep the best fifty, edit every line.
About fifteen minutes
4 Give it
Your digital book opens as soon as you pay, with every picture soon after. The printed book follows, made near them in the UK, US, EU, Canada or Australia.
Digital as soon as you pay
Free to start. No account needed.
Not another fill-in journal
Fill-in journals
A blank page and a pen. Most stall at reason four.
Off-the-shelf books
Preset reasons and preset faces. Lovely, but they're someone else's words and someone else's people.
Darling Reasons
Your memories, your words, and characters that look like the two of you.
Stuck on reason number four?
Answer three questions and get ten reasons to start from, free. Send them as a message, or turn them into the book.
Or borrow a few from our lists: 100 reasons I love you, 50 reasons, deep reasons and more.
You still save me the last roast potato and pretend you didn't see me looking.
You learnt my coffee order on our second date and never once got it wrong.
You hold my hand in the car like we're still nineteen.
Good to know
Can the characters really look like us?+
That's the point. Choose from ten skin tones, sixteen hairstyles including locs, braids, afros and coils, face shapes, noses, lips and body types, plus hijabs, turbans and headwraps, glasses, hearing aids, wheelchairs, freckles, vitiligo, grey hair and pets. Then pick a style and we illustrate them.
When can I order?+
Now. Make your book, read every page, then order the digital book or a printed copy. If you're in the EU, order from our Etsy shop for now.
Where is it printed?+
Close to whoever's receiving it: in the UK, the US, Canada, Australia and the EU. That keeps delivery quick and avoids customs charges.
What if it's the night before?+
Order the digital book and it opens as soon as you pay. Add a printed copy and it follows in the post.
Can I make one for my mum, or my best friend?+
Yes. Pick who it's for at the start and the questions change to suit: warm and grateful for family, full of in-jokes for friends, romantic only for partners.
How are the words and pictures made?+
From your memories. You answer questions about real moments, and our writing assistant, which uses AI, turns your answers into first drafts using only what you told us. You keep, change or rewrite every line. The illustrations are made with AI image tools from the characters you build, and each one is checked against your choices before you see it. Nothing is printed until you've approved every page.
Say it while you're thinking it.
Make the characters now, it takes two minutes. The words can come later; we'll help.