Free Anniversary Calendar Poster

What goes on an anniversary poster

The whole point of a dated keepsake is that it fixes one day. Everything on this layout exists to do that: the names say whose day it is, the heart says what the years looked like, and the calendar says exactly which square of which month it was.

• Both names across the top, either side of a heart
• Up to eighteen photographs, arranged as a heart
• A month and year, drawn as the real calendar for that month
• One day marked, the way you would ring it on a wall calendar
• A code strip for a song, if you have one
• A line along the foot for the number of years, or anything else

Why the calendar has to be a real month

A printed calendar block is easy to fake and obvious when it is faked. The artwork this template was drawn from is a good example: it is labelled November 2025 and starts the month on a Monday, in five rows. The first of November 2025 was a Saturday, and the month needs six rows. Anyone who checks their own anniversary against it finds the date on the wrong day of the week.

So this template does not copy a grid. It calculates one. Choose a month and a year and the editor works out which weekday it opens on, how many days it has and how many rows that takes, then puts your date on the correct square. February in a leap year, a thirty-one day month that spills into a sixth row, and a date that does not exist in the month you picked are all handled.

Eighteen photographs, and which one goes in the middle

Choose all your pictures at once and they fill the heart in order. The large box in the centre is the one people look at first, and it is rarely the first photograph you happened to select, so you can move any picture into it: click the box holding it, then choose where it should go. The two trade places and each keeps its own framing.

Every box can be zoomed and dragged individually, which matters more here than on a single-photograph poster: the boxes are different shapes, and a face that sits nicely in a wide box will be cropped oddly in a narrow one.

You do not have to fill all eighteen. An empty box is drawn as part of the design rather than as a hole, so a heart made of six photographs still looks deliberate.

Dark or light, and what changes between them

The poster comes in two colourways. The dark one is the original: a near-black ground with the photographs and type in white. The light one puts the same poster on white, which suits a bright room and uses far less ink if you are printing it at home.

Only colour changes between them, never the layout, so you can switch after you have arranged everything. One detail does differ by necessity: on the dark version an empty photo box is a solid white panel, and on the light version it is outlined instead, because a white box on white paper is not a box.

Printing and framing

Export at A4 through to A0, at up to 300 DPI, as PNG, JPG, PDF or SVG. A3 suits a desk or a shelf; A2 is the usual size for a framed print on a wall. The PDF and SVG are vector for the type and the hearts, so the names and dates stay crisp at any size.

If you are sending it to a print shop, ask whether they want bleed. The export panel can add it, and a poster printed edge to edge on a dark ground is exactly the case where a missing bleed shows as a white hairline.