Personalized crossword gift
Wedding and Anniversary Crossword
An instant do-it-yourself maker, ready in minutes. Type your names, your wedding date, and the answers and clues from your story: where you met, your first dance, the first apartment, the dog. Our puzzle builder turns them into a real interlocking crossword to frame or solve together, and you see the finished grid before you pay.
Make yours ($7.99) Start from our example couple
How it works
- Type your names as the title and your wedding date on the line under it.
- Add 8 to 20 answers, each with a clue only the two of you would get.
- Press Preview it to see your real grid and any answer that didn’t fit.
- Buy on Gumroad ($7.99), paste the license key from the receipt, and the PDF downloads in about 10 seconds.
Where is the license key? Right after you pay, Gumroad shows it on the receipt page, and it is also in the receipt email Gumroad sends you (a line of letters and numbers like XXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXX). Copy it, come back to this tab, paste it in the box and press Make my crossword. No email? Check your spam folder, or write to hello@frontporchpuzzlepress.com and we will send your crossword.
The example button fills the maker with a made-up couple, Margaret and Tom, married in 1986, so you can see how it works before typing your own. Change every answer and clue to yours.
Sample pages
Real pages from the example couple, in navy. This is our instant crossword: one classic design in navy, forest green, cranberry or plum, with 8x10 and 11x14 frame prints, a solve sheet and an answer key, ready in minutes.
Clue ideas
- How you met: “Where you ordered for me on our first date” = DINER
- The proposal and the wedding: “Where I finally said yes” = NEWPORT, “Our first dance, two words” = MOON RIVER
- Home: the first apartment, every street you lived on, the kids and the pets
- Little habits: “Sunday nights, and you still keep score” = CRIBBAGE
- For newlyweds: the first concert, the honeymoon, the cat who chose one of you
Write clues the way you would say them to each other. Mix easy ones with a few only your spouse will get.
Gift ideas
Frame the 11x14 print for a 25th, 40th or 50th anniversary, a paper (first) anniversary or a vow renewal, and print the solve sheet twice so you can race each other. For a wedding gift, fill it with the couple’s story from the friends who know it best.
Want more than one puzzle? The anniversary puzzle book adds large print word searches and fill-ins around your crossword.
Questions & answers
Can I put our names and wedding date on it?
Yes. Put your names in the title (up to 40 characters, like Margaret & Tom) and the date in the line under it (up to 60, like Married June 14, 1986).
How many clues do we need?
8 to 20 answers, each 3 to 13 letters, with a clue of up to 80 characters. 12 to 16 makes the nicest grid. Two-word answers like Moon River are joined in the grid.
What do I get?
One PDF with 10 pages: a solve sheet on US Letter and on A4, the answer key, a large print version, and frame prints sized 8x10 and 11x14, each blank and solved.
Is it ready in time for the anniversary?
Yes, it is instant. You see the real grid before you pay, and the PDF downloads about 10 seconds after you paste your license key. Nothing is shipped, so print and frame it at home or at a print shop.
Is this the same as a Sip and Solve wedding sign?
No. This is a keepsake for the couple, sized for a frame and for solving at home. It is not sized as a large welcome sign for guests.
What if an answer won't fit?
Words can only cross where the letters match. If one answer can't cross the others, the preview says so before you pay, so you can change it.