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title: Contact: Ask About Your Love Map Before You Order
description: Message Ali on Etsy with questions about your love map. Replies usually come within a few hours. Includes a copy-and-paste brief template.
canonical: https://paperanniversarygift.com/contact/
last-updated: 2026-09-08
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# Contact

Message Ali on Etsy with questions about your love map. Replies usually come within a few hours. Includes a copy-and-paste brief template.

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| Where | Etsy messages, https://byaliden.etsy.com/ |
| Who replies | Ali, who draws the maps |
| Typical reply time | a few hours |
| Listing | https://byaliden.etsy.com/listing/4416250510/paper-anniversary-gift-for-husband-wife |

There is no contact form, email list or account on this site. Everything runs
through Etsy so that payment, currency and buyer protection stay in one place.

## Worth asking before you order

- Whether a specific place can be drawn, if it is unusual
- Whether your date is achievable, if you need it sooner than 4–5 days
- Which of your milestones to cut, if you have more than eight

## The brief

The brief is the part that decides how good the map is, and it is sent as an
Etsy message after ordering. The full template, with the rules that make a brief
work, is at https://paperanniversarygift.com/brief-template.txt

1. **Order.** Buy the map on Etsy and add your two names in the personalisation box. Nothing is drawn until we have your story, so ordering first simply reserves your slot in the queue.
2. **Send your story.** Message your five to eight milestones in order, each with the event, the real place name and the date. This is the part worth getting right, because the map is built around the sequence. Describe anything distinctive, and send the wording of a personal note if you want one.
3. **Approve the draft.** A draft usually comes back within 3 days. You get one round of changes on it, covering corrections and small details, so send everything at once. The print-ready files follow, usually 4 to 5 days after ordering.

## Questions people ask first

### How long does it take?

A first draft usually arrives within 3 days, and most orders are finished within 4–5 days. That is the whole timeline rather than a production stage: because you receive a file, nothing is added on top of it for shipping. Reviewers frequently describe it arriving faster than that, and rush requests are sometimes possible, but plan around 4–5 days.

### Do I see it before it is finished?

Yes. A draft comes to you before the final files, and you get one round of changes on it: wording, dates, spellings, and small additions or removals of detail. Send everything in one reply rather than in pieces, since it is a single round. The sequence of stops is fixed at that point, so that part needs to be right when you send your brief.

### How many revisions do I get?

One round, and it covers corrections and small details: wording, dates, spellings, and small additions or removals within the stops you already have. It does not cover adding or removing a milestone. The map is a timeline, so the whole composition is built around the exact sequence of stops, which means a new stop is a different map rather than a tweak. That is why the flow matters most in your first brief: decide the five to eight stops and their order before you send them, and the draft comes back close to finished.

### What do you need from me?

Your two names, the title you want, and five to eight milestones in the order they happened, each with the event, the real place name and the date. A line describing anything distinctive about a place, pet or vehicle you want on the map. And the wording of a personal note, if you want one. Get the list and its order right at this stage, because that is what the composition is built around.

### Will it look exactly like the examples?

It will be in the same style, but no two maps are identical, because no two stories are. Some maps are sparse and doodle-like, others are dense with detailed architecture. Browse the examples and say which end of that range you prefer when you order, telling us up front is the surest way to get what you are picturing.

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Source: https://paperanniversarygift.com/contact/
Updated: 2026-09-08