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A couple slow dancing barefoot in their dark kitchen at night, lit by a single candle and the light above the stove (AI photo, fictional people)

The anniversary songbook

Anniversary songs for every year of us.

The slow dances couples choose for each milestone, and the one song no playlist has: yours, written from how you met.

Create our anniversary song⁠Songs by year⁠

Scroll for the playlist. Stay for the song that is only about you two.

Songs by year

The right anniversary song for the year you're in

Every year has a traditional gift. Every year also has a mood. Here is what couples play for each milestone, and a detail worth stealing for a song of your own.

  1. Year1PaperStill giddy

    What couples play

    • Lover · Taylor Swift
    • Perfect · Ed Sheeran
    • Lucky · Jason Mraz & Colbie Caillat
    A detail worth a verse
    The first apartment, the broken radiator, the one pan you cooked everything in.
  2. Year5WoodBuilding something

    What couples play

    • Better Together · Jack Johnson
    • Home · Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
    • Stand by Me · Ben E. King
    A detail worth a verse
    The Sunday you built the bookshelf wrong, twice, and kept it anyway.
  3. Year10TinOrdinary days

    What couples play

    • Thinking Out Loud · Ed Sheeran
    • Make You Feel My Love · Adele
    • Then · Brad Paisley
    A detail worth a verse
    The way they hum while they cook and pretend they don't.

    Ordinary Days, the real song below, was written for a tenth anniversary.

  4. Year20ChinaWeathered and sure

    What couples play

    • You're Still the One · Shania Twain
    • Harvest Moon · Neil Young
    • Grow Old With You · Adam Sandler
    A detail worth a verse
    The car you drove until the door stopped closing.
  5. Year25SilverHalf a life

    What couples play

    • At Last · Etta James
    • Unchained Melody · The Righteous Brothers
    • Come Away With Me · Norah Jones
    A detail worth a verse
    The nickname nobody else is allowed to use.
  6. Year50GoldEverything

    What couples play

    • Can't Help Falling in Love · Elvis Presley
    • The Way You Look Tonight · Frank Sinatra
    • Have I Told You Lately · Van Morrison
    A detail worth a verse
    The hand you still reach for in the dark.

Year 3, year 17, year 41: every year counts. Tell us the number and the story, and we write for it.

Start our song

From a true story

Every song above is about someone else's marriage

This one isn't. Daniel typed a few sentences about Emma for their tenth anniversary. Here is what the song did with them.

A woman humming while she cooks at the stove in a small kitchen, a jar of folded notes on the shelf, her partner leaning in the doorway watching her (AI photo, fictional people)
Made on this site. Photos are AI illustrations of a fictional couple; the song and the story are real.
  1. Details from his story: A rainy morning at a tiny bookshop in Portland, both reaching for the same poetry bookLines the song made of them: Ten years ago, one rainy morningInside a tiny Portland bookshop
  2. Details from his story: She hums while she cooksLines the song made of them: You hum softly while you cookI listen, smiling from the doorway
  3. Details from his story: Notes from every trip, kept in a jarLines the song made of them: You keep notes from every trip in a jarTheir little pages bring us home
  • Ballad
  • Romantic
  • Female voice
Play Ordinary Days
Ballad

Your sound

What should our anniversary song sound like?

Pick the room it will play in. We write and produce for it, with the voice you choose.

How it works

From how you met to a finished song, tonight

  1. 1. Tell us how it started

    Your names, the year, how you met, and the small things: the nickname, the song you always skip, the trip that went wrong.

  2. 2. Hear two anniversary songs

    A few minutes later, two complete versions. Keep one, change a line, or try a different sound. Free until you're happy.

  3. 3. Give it on the day

    A private page with your photos and a note, a lyric video and the MP3. Schedule it for the morning or play it at dinner.

The price

One anniversary song, written about you

Limited offer

Offer price$34.99

Regular price$69.98-50%

Create our anniversary song⁠

Nothing to pay until you have heard both versions.

  • Two full versions to choose from
  • Lyrics you can change before paying
  • A private gift page with your photos and a note
  • Lyric video (MP4), MP3 and a lyrics PDF
  • Optional: release on Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube Music
  • Optional: instrumental version for a first dance

Anniversaries so far

Couples who gave each other a song

  • A couple in socks and sweatpants slow dancing in a messy kitchen at night, her forehead against his chest (AI photo, fictional people)10th anniversary
    Ten years, two kids, zero date nights. We played it in the kitchen after bedtime and actually slow danced. Then the baby woke up.
    Rachel D.Minneapolis, MN
  • A young woman wrapped in a blanket on a small balcony in the morning, earbuds in, eyes shut and grinning at her phone (AI photo, fictional person)1st anniversary
    I'm not a words person, so I let the song say it. She has played it every morning this week on the balcony.
    Tom H.Nashville, TN
  • An older couple at a dinner table laughing hard while their adult daughter holds a phone toward them (AI photo, fictional people)30th anniversary
    My parents' 30th. We put how they met in the lyrics, including the part where Mom said no the first time. Dad could not stop laughing.
    Nina P.Sacramento, CA
  • A couple dancing in socks in a small living room, he dips her and both laugh, a dog watching from the rug (AI photo, fictional people)5th anniversary
    We eloped, so we never had a first dance. Five years later we finally did, in the living room, to our own song.
    Jess M.
  • An elderly couple on a sofa holding hands, looking down at a phone with wet eyes and small smiles (AI photo, fictional people)50th anniversary
    Grandma and Grandpa, fifty years. He held her hand through the whole song and said nothing until the end. Then: play it again.
    Owen B.Cleveland, OH
  • A woman sitting cross-legged on her bed at night in front of a glowing laptop, both hands over her mouth, laughing through tears (AI photo, fictional person)Long-distance anniversary
    He's deployed. I scheduled it for our anniversary morning, his time. He sent back a two-minute voice note of mostly breathing and one wow.
    Keisha W.

FAQ

Anniversary song questions

The things couples ask before they write theirs.

Which anniversary year is this for?

Any year. You type the number and the story, and the lyrics are written for that year, whether it is the first or the fifty-first.

Can the song be from both of us?

Yes. Write the story in the first person plural, or give us both sides. Many couples make one together and play it at dinner.

We need it by tomorrow night. Is that realistic?

Yes. The two versions are ready a few minutes after you finish the story, and the gift page goes live the moment you pay. Most couples are done within half an hour.

Can we use it for a first dance or a vow renewal?

Yes. You get the MP3 to play anywhere, and at checkout you can add an instrumental version if you want to sing it yourselves.

What if a line is not quite right?

Change it. Before paying you can rewrite lyrics, switch the style or the mood and get two fresh versions, as many times as you need, for free.

Does it sound like a real song?

Judge for yourself: Ordinary Days above was made here, and you hear both of your own versions in full before you pay a cent.

Something else on your mind?

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Write the song that is only about you two

A few sentences about how it started. A song you will play on every anniversary after this one.

Create our anniversary song⁠

Hear it in full before you pay