The love story that keeps going after the wedding: 7 reasons to write it down in a Momento

Think about your wedding album. Every minute of that one day, lit and posed and printed. Now think about the thousands of days since.

The first house. The years the kids were small. The job that moved you across the country. Almost none of it was written down, and most of it was never photographed.

The film ends on a line worth keeping: for the love story before the wedding, and the one that keeps going after. If you have been married a long time, you know the after is the longer story.

Tuesday nights at the kitchen table after the kids were in bed. The winter the furnace broke and you slept in your coats. The drive to the hospital, and the drive home.

They felt ordinary at the time. Looking back, they were the whole thing.

Nobody else remembers them the way you do. That is exactly why they are worth writing down now, while the details are still yours to tell.

How you met. What you were like at their age. How you came through the hard year, the one nobody brings up at the holidays.

One day your children and grandchildren will want to know, and the answer will be wherever you left it. A story told at dinner changes a little every time. A page in your handwriting doesn't.

You don't have to write it all at once. One memory a night, in no particular order. The book doesn't mind if you start with the year you met and jump to last week.

A notebook fills up and goes in a drawer next to the others, and the story ends up in pieces.

The Momento is one cover with refillable paper inserts on an elastic, and it holds five or six at a time. Fill one, slide it out, write the years on the front, keep it with the others, and start the next in the same cover.

Year after year it is the same book. That makes it easy to hand down: one cover and a small stack of inserts, in order.

Somewhere there is a shoebox. The wedding invitation. A photo of the two of you on a porch you barely remember. The ticket stubs from a movie on your first anniversary.

The zipper organizer inside the Momento keeps those loose pieces with the pages about them.

Your grandchildren won't know what the ticket stub means unless the page next to it tells them. That page is what you are writing.

A book you plan to fill for years should be one you like picking up. The Momento has a soft wrap-around cover and a charm on the strap, in eight colors.

The inserts are 100 GSM Daolin paper and fountain-pen friendly, so your handwriting looks the way you meant it to.

Pocket is about 4 by 7 inches. Classic is about 5 by 8, if you like room to write long.

It arrives in a linen travel bag with two paper inserts, a zipper organizer and a complimentary charm, so it is ready to give on an anniversary. Want one each? The Pair is two journals in any two colors.

Designed in LA and made in small batches, with a lifetime warranty on the cover, free US shipping and 100-day returns.

You're the keeper of the story. Start writing it down at Still Archive.