Weddings
Favors nobody throws away. Guests take the day home and it plays again on every anniversary.
Wedding favorsShips in 24 hours · Hand made in San Diego
A page worth sharing.
A card worth keeping.
Create what opens from a tap: your details, a celebration, or a memory. Preview it for free, then add a custom tap card when you’re ready.Create your profile, celebration, or keepsake. Preview what opens, then add a custom tap card.
Free to share · Optional tap cards from $30
Make it personal.
A voice, a film, a few words. Give them a way back to it.
Create a keepsake →02 / Bring people togetherEveryone’s point of view.
Event details and guest photos, gathered around one card.
Create for an occasion →03 / Make a connectionA better introduction.
Put your contact details, work, and useful links within reach.
Create a profile →24 hoursPrinted & shipped
3Materials to choose from
No appWorks on the phone they own
San DiegoMade by hand
How it works
Create what opens. Then make it a card.
- Create what opens
Your profile, a celebration, or a memory. Make it yours and see it on a phone before buying anything.
- Preview and share
Try the recipient’s view. Publish with a free account and share your link or QR code. No card or subscription needed.
- Add a tap card
When you’re ready, design a physical card for the page you made. Choose a material, preview both sides, then order.
The cards
What should it be made of?
Same chip, same page, same video you can change forever. What changes is what you hold.
Examples
Finished cards, not swatches.
Illustrated printed-card inspiration alongside engraved layouts from the designer. Upload your own finished artwork, or make a design with your words and photos.
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Garden wedding · Printed artwork example
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Bamboo, engraved
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A birthday worth keeping · Printed artwork example
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A memorable introduction · Printed artwork example
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A life remembered · Printed artwork example
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White, printed in full color
Your free Dote account
A home for what you share.
A free account saves your pages and memories, with or without a physical card. You stay in control. Recipients can open what you share without an account or an app.
- Make it personal
- Create a free profile, occasion page, or keepsake with your details and memories. Share it digitally or add a tap card.
- Keep it up to date
- Change what a tap opens whenever you like. Your physical card stays the same.
- Choose who can see it
- Add a password to a memory. On an occasion page, collect guest photos and choose whether to approve them.
- Keep everything together
- Save unfinished designs, manage your cards, see tap counts, and follow your orders.
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Start and preview without signing in. Create a free account to upload, save across devices, and publish.
Something useful right now: create a free QR code for a link, contact details, or guest Wi-Fi. No card or account needed.
What they see
No app. No sign-up.
Just the video, immediately.
Your guest holds their phone near the card. This page opens by itself and the video starts. They never make an account, never install anything, and never see an ad beside your first dance.
- Opens in the phone’s own browser, in about a second
- YouTube and Vimeo links play here too — never on YouTube
- Lock it with a password and it shows nothing without one
Ellie & Tom, 12 June
This card was made with Dote
Make oneThe page a guest lands on. Every tap carries it.
Why they keep them
A photo says it happened.
This lets them live it again.
A printed favor goes in the trash on the drive home. A card that opens the video goes in a drawer — and comes back out every time someone visits. Ten years from now it still opens, because the card never held the video in the first place. It holds an address you control, and you can point it somewhere new whenever you like.
Start your keepsake — free
Occasions
One card. Every moment worth keeping.
The same object works for the happiest day of someone’s life and the hardest. That is rather the point of it.
Birthdays
Collect messages from everyone who loves them onto one card. Watch their face when they tap it.
Birthday cardsLong distance
A card they keep, with a video of you behind it. They tap it when they miss you; change the video whenever you want.
Long-distance cardsRemembrance
Their voice, still here. Something the family can hold at the service and keep for the years after.
Memorial cardsThe promise
Made by hand, one at a time.
Every card is made here in San Diego — printed or engraved, checked, and in the post within a day, by us and not by a factory. If yours turns up wrong, or does not play, reply to your receipt or write to [email protected] — it reaches someone who can actually fix it.
— Dote, San Diego
Pricing
The more you order, the less each one costs.
This is the ladder for a white card; bamboo matches it and metal has its own, at the same discounts. Every card on every material is two-sided, ships tracked, and holds a video that is yours to change forever — up to 25 in one order, and a quote for anything bigger.
$30a cardJust one$30.00 for 1
$26a card2+$52.00 for 2
$25a card10+$250.00 for 10
$23a card25$575.00 for 25
Free tracked shipping, no minimum. Printing the back is included. No subscription, and nothing expires — the page your card opens is free to keep and free to change, for as long as you have the card.
Questions
The things everybody asks.
Do I need an account?
Start and preview without signing in. Create a free account to upload, save across devices, and publish your page. You can share it for free or add a custom tap card. Recipients do not need an account or an app.
Does it need an app?
No. Every iPhone since the XR and virtually every modern Android reads the card natively. You hold the phone near it and the video opens — that is the whole interaction.
What are the cards made of?
Three boards: white plastic printed in full color, bamboo, and black stainless steel. Bamboo and metal are engraved by a laser: two tones burned into the surface rather than ink laid on it, so they carry names, dates, words and line art — a photograph comes out as a woodcut, and belongs on the white card. All of them are on sale today.
Can I change the video later?
As many times as you like. The card points at a page you control, so the same card can hold a new memory next year. It never needs reprinting.
Can I keep it private?
Yes. Put a password on it and only people you give it to can watch. You can add, change or remove that any time.
Can guests add their own photos?
On an occasion page, yes. Turn on guest uploads and anyone holding the card can add a photo or a short video of their own — held for your approval, or shown as they arrive if you would rather not manage a queue.
What if my video is already on YouTube?
Paste the link instead of uploading. It plays right on your card page — no ads, no recommended videos afterwards.
How fast do they ship?
Made by hand and shipped within 24 hours. Delivery takes additional time after that, so we never promise an arrival date. If you need cards by a particular day, ask us before you order.
What if a card does not work?
Every card is tapped on a real phone before it goes in the box. If one still fails, reply to your receipt and we replace it.
I need more than a few.
Sets are cheaper per card — $26 each from 2 up, $23 at 25, the most one self-serve order can hold — and each one can point at the same memory or a different one. Need more than 25? [Request a quote](/quote/) and we will price the rest of it.
Before you order
Questions worth answering first.
Honest answers, including the ones that talk you out of it. Not sales pages.
- Do guests actually keep wedding favors?Most favors are left on the table. Here is what the ones that go home have in common, and how to decide what to spend before you order 120 of anything.
- White, bamboo or metal: which card to chooseWhite, bamboo and metal can all be printed in full color, photographs included; bamboo and metal can also be laser engraved in two tones. What each is made of, what it weighs, and what it costs.
- What happens to your card if we disappear?A card that plays a video depends on somebody keeping the video online. That is a fair thing to worry about before you buy one. Here is the commitment we can actually keep.
- NFC or a QR code: which should go on a card?Both open a link with a phone. One needs a camera, decent light and a free hand; the other needs a tap. Where each one wins, and why a counter sign should carry both.
- How to ask a customer for a Google reviewThe ask works when it is easy, immediate and in person. What Google’s own policy lets you offer, what it forbids, and the words that work at a counter without being awkward.
- What should an NFC business card link to?LinkedIn, a portfolio, a contact file or a page of your own — each suits a different job, and one of them is a trap. How to choose, and what to do about wanting to change it later.
- How to collect video messages from a groupAsk fifteen people for a clip and you will get nine. What to ask for, how long each should be, how to collect them without a group chat, and how to end up with one video.
- Wedding favor etiquette, answered plainlyWho gets a favor, how many to order, where they go on the night, and whether you need them at all. The conventions that exist, and which ones nobody will notice you ignored.
- Where to put a tap card in a restaurantThe table, the counter, the bill folder, the takeout bag, the host stand. What each spot is actually good for, and the placements that quietly fail.
- What does dote mean?To dote is to love someone so much it shows in what you do for them. For three centuries the word meant almost the opposite. Definition, origin and usage.
Make the first one tonight.
Create your page and try it on a phone. Add a card whenever you’re ready.
Start freeNo subscription · Custom tap cards from $30