$9.99
Milestone birthday and anniversary photo collages
Some birthdays deserve more than a card. An 18th, a 50th, a 90th, a silver or golden anniversary: these are the days a family stops and looks back at everything that's happened. A number photo collage puts all of it in one frame, cut to the shape of the age itself and filled with your own photos. Our simple rule: ten photos for every year. Fifty years, five hundred photos. And because these templates hold up to 1,075 photos, nobody's version of the story gets left out.
Birthdays
- 18th birthday
- From the hospital blanket to the prom: eighteen years, 180 photos.
- 21st birthday
- The whole story so far, and the friends who were there for it.
- 30th birthday
- Three decades, from childhood to the full, busy twenties.
- 40th birthday
- Forty years, four hundred photos, one very proud look back.
- 50th birthday
- Half a century, with room for every decade.
- 60th birthday
- Sixty years, and every one of them in the picture.
- 70th birthday
- Seventy years of stories the grandchildren will stand and stare at.
- 80th birthday
- From black-and-white portraits to great-grandchildren.
- 90th birthday
- Nearly a century, and every generation together in one frame.
Anniversaries
- 25th anniversary
- Silver: twenty-five years of choosing each other.
- 40th anniversary
- Ruby: forty years, a family raised, a thousand small moments.
- 50th anniversary
- Golden: fifty years, one love story.
Celebrating a different number? The number photo collage takes any number from one to four digits: a 7th birthday, a 65th, a 30th anniversary, even a year.
Ten photos for every year
| Milestone | Photos | Print size (landscape) | Each photo |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18th, 21st, 25th | 180–250 | 40 × 30″ | about 1¼″ |
| 30th, 40th | 300–400 | 54 × 36″ | about 1¼″ |
| 50th, 60th | 500–600 | 60 × 40″ | about 1″ |
| 70th to 90th | 700–900 | 60 × 40″ | a little under 1″ |
Ten for every year makes each photo small, an inch or so across: up close every face is there to find, and from across the room the number does the talking. If you'd rather every face be easy to see from a step away, use fewer photos: around 140 on a 60 × 40″ print come out about two inches across. The number reads clearly from as few as 9 photos.
Questions
What is a milestone photo collage?
It's a collage cut to the shape of the age or the number of years, like a big 50, and filled with photos from across that whole time. Underneath the number go their name and a date or a line of words.
How far ahead should I start?
Give yourself two or three weeks. Gathering the photos takes longest, especially old prints, which you can photograph with your phone. Filling the template takes an evening, and a local print shop can often print it in a day or two.
What do I get?
A Canva template with your number already cut and every photo space placed, for $9.99. It downloads instantly; you open it in a free Canva account, drop in your photos, type your words and print it anywhere.