Write down the two of you before the vows: 7 reasons couples keep a Momento

There is a line in the film: not because I was afraid we'd forget each other, but because I knew one day we'd miss the people we were on the way here.

You won't forget each other. But the two people arguing over a seating chart on the apartment floor, sharing one fork over takeout, won't exist in quite the same way after the vows. Life gets fuller. Those two get harder to find.

Writing it down is how you get to visit them. A page from this year, in your own handwriting, is the closest thing to a time machine a marriage gets.

The wedding will be covered from every angle. A photographer, a videographer and a room full of guests with phones.

Nobody will photograph the Sunday coffee run, the drive home from the cake tasting, or the last ordinary Tuesday in the first apartment. Those are the days that made the two of you, and they leave no record unless you make one.

Two lines at the end of the night is enough. In ten years, those are the pages you will read first.

One of you remembers the proposal one way. The other remembers it differently. Both versions are true, and both are worth keeping.

The Pair is two Momento journals in any two colors, one for each of you. Write your own side of the engagement, the planning, the day itself.

Then trade on your first anniversary and read what the other one was thinking the whole time. It is a conversation you only get to have if you wrote it down.

Most wedding keepsakes stop at the wedding. A guest book, an album, a box in the closet.

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 dates on the front, keep it, and keep going in the same cover.

The book you start the week you get engaged is the same one you are writing in on your tenth anniversary. The love story before the wedding, and the one that keeps going after.

Right now the wedding lives in a spreadsheet, a group chat and too many browser tabs. The feelings about it live nowhere.

Add the weekly, monthly and grid planner inserts beside your writing pages. The vendor dates go on one page. What you both felt walking into the venue goes on the next.

When the day is done, slide the planner out and keep it with the rest. The story stays in the cover.

A journal on a shelf doesn't catch much. The good stuff happens in the car, at the coffee shop, at the table after dinner.

Choose Pocket, about 4 by 7 inches, or Classic, about 5 by 8. The elastic closure keeps it shut in a bag, and the zipper organizer holds the ticket stubs and the place cards.

The inserts are 100 GSM Daolin paper and fountain-pen friendly, so whatever pen is closest will do.

You are planning for forever. The book should be built for it too.

The cover has a lifetime warranty. The Momento is designed in LA and made in small batches, ships free in the US, and has 100-day returns. Every one comes with a complimentary charm, in eight colors.

You're the kind of couple who wants to remember how you got here. Start yours at Still Archive.