The Eulogy You Get to Read.
The most beautiful words of a lifetime are usually heard by everyone except the person they're about. Answer 45 gentle questions - by talking, not typing - and we turn your own words into the tribute you never thought you'd get to hear.
Start My Toast - $24
The best words come too late.
The most beautiful things ever said about us are said when we can't hear them. A room full of people, the stories, the laughter, the things they never got around to telling you - that's the eulogy. You're the only one who misses it.
Toast of a Lifetime fixes that. You answer 45 gentle questions about the life you've lived, and we turn your answers into that speech - written from your own words, word-for-word, delivered to you now. While the flowers still mean something.
Flowers are for the living - yours shouldn't wait.
How It Works
No writing. No blank pages. Just 45 good questions and about 40 minutes of talking.
Answer 45 gentle questions
The story your family always asks for. The thing nobody ever thanked you for. Tap and talk - or type if you'd rather. It saves as you go.
We compose your toast
Your answers become a flowing tribute - with your exact phrases woven in, word-for-word. Nothing invented. If you didn't say it, it isn't in there.
Typeset like an heirloom
Set in three editions - screen, print, and large-print - like something from another era. Made to be framed.
You hear it, while it matters
Your typeset keepsake arrives within 48 hours - to read, to print, to frame. Or to leave somewhere your family will find it.
Eight pages. One life. Yours.
Typeset like something from another era - because it is about a whole one.
The Tribute
Your story in full - 800 or so words that sound like you, because they're built from you.
The Toast Card
The short version, made to be read aloud - glass raised.
In Your Words
A page of your own phrases, set in type - the exact words this was built from.
The Colophon
Composed from your memories, as told in your own words. Typeset, signed, and dated. An edition of one.
Three editions - screen, print, and large-print. Yours forever.
Read a real one.
This is Margaret's. Seventy-one years, eleven-mile drives through the snow, forty years of dinner rolls she called nothing.
"Who kept the coffee on for anyone who might come - and somebody always came. Who sets the good dishes on ordinary Tuesdays, because she knows something the rest of us keep forgetting: that the ordinary Tuesdays were the good part all along."
What readers tell us.
4.9/5 from readers who never expected to cry at their own story.
"I read it out loud to my husband and neither of us made it to the end dry-eyed. Nobody had ever asked me those questions. Not in 71 years."
"I'm not a crier. I'm telling you that so you know what it means when I say I needed a minute."
"The part about my mother's kitchen - those were MY words, but I'd never seen them look like that."
If it doesn't sound like you, it's on us.
Read your toast once. If it doesn't sound like you, full refund within 30 days, no questions asked - and you keep the keepsake anyway.
The only risk is your story staying untold.