More about One Million Candles

One Million Candles is a wall of a million candles — you light one for a wish, for someone’s recovery, as a message, or in memory, and it burns there permanently. Everything else about the project lives on the pages below.

• What this is, and why it exists — The whole story: who built the wall and why, what a candle costs, how long it burns, and what happens when the millionth one is lit.
• Questions — Where to find the link to your candle, what to do about a typo in a name, how refunds work, and who can see what you wrote.
• Hall of Light — The tallest, brightest candles on the wall, ranked by the people who gave the most.
• Search the wall — Find a candle by the name on it, or by pasting the link from your receipt.
• Terms — What you agree to when you light a candle, and what we can and cannot do with it afterwards.
• Privacy — What we store, why we store it, and when it gets deleted.
• Light a candle in memory of someone — and it stays — For someone you have lost — their name on the wall, in a place that stays.
• Light a candle for someone’s recovery — For someone who is ill — yours or theirs, with a link you can send them.
• Light a candle for a wish or a dream — An exam, a new job, a move — a wish put somewhere it will not sit in a drawer.
• Light a candle for a birthday — one that stays — Not a cake you blow out — a candle with their name that is still there next year.
• Light a candle for someone and send them the link — For a bad week, or just because — something that took more than typing a message.
• Light a candle to say thank you — For the teacher, the nurse, the friend who showed up — and never heard it.