Silver anniversary
Silver: the anniversary the whole family shows up for. Tell the wedding day back, with twenty-five years of footnotes.
A 25th anniversary song for your silver anniversary
Twenty-five years is the first anniversary most families throw a party for. A silver anniversary song made from the wedding day, the years since and the people in the room gives that party a moment everyone remembers.
Hear the second a name lands
Claire, you make the season feel so bright,
You wrote“We got engaged at the Christmas market in Chicago in 2019.”
The song singsBack in Chicago under cold winter skies,
From a real song made here: “Sweeter Than Cocoa”, for Claire, from what her husband typed.
The moment you give it
The slideshow ends on the wedding photo and the song begins. The kids made it, from stories the couple never knew they knew. Their old best man gets the second verse and stands up to take a bow.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS · RAISE A GLASS · TWENTY-FIVE YEARS · RAISE A GLASS ·
Silver anniversary party, 8:30 pm · Rented hall, a slideshow, the original wedding party
Start with one memory
Pick a question. The form opens with your first line already started.
Hear an anniversary song from our samples
A husband's song for his wife, ten years married; a silver anniversary brief works the same way.
What you get for $12.99
You hear it first, free. You pay once, only if you keep it.
- Free preview
- The first 60 seconds, ready in about two minutes after you enter your email. No card.
- The song
- The full song, about two minutes long, as an MP3 to download and keep.
- Lyrics
- Every line is on the preview page before you pay. Unlocking adds the lyric sheet, to print or save as a PDF.
- Their link
- A private link that plays the whole song without an account, with your name and a short note. Switch it off any time.
- Photo video
- Free: a vertical 9:16 photo video of your photos with the lyrics on screen, plus 15- and 30-second cuts. Made in your browser.
- The name
- Unusual name? Type how to say it (SEER-sha for Saoirse) and the singer says it that way.
- Re-record
- One free re-record per song: change a line, the style or the voice and record it again.
- Name sung wrong?
- After you pay, a free remake with the name fixed, once per song.
- Languages
- Sung in English, German, French, Spanish or Japanese.
- Teaser
- Before you pay, a 15-second teaser link that tells them a song is on its way.
- For this song
- Making an anniversary video? Download the MP3 and lay it under your own clips, or let the free photo video set your photos to it.
- Want a nudge next year? Opt in and we email you three weeks and one week before the date.
Silver, the 25th anniversary gift
Silver is the traditional gift for twenty-five years, which is why the date is called the silver anniversary. Some couples renew their vows at twenty-five; a song written for the day can play as they walk back down the aisle.
What to write about 25 years
- The friends or relatives who were at the wedding and will be at the party too.
- The wedding: the venue, the weather, the thing that went wrong.
- The first dance song you chose then, and why this one is new.
- The family that grew from the two of you.
- Where you were at year twelve, halfway through.
- What friends at the party would say they are like together.
Who usually makes a 25th anniversary song
- One spouse for the other, as a surprise at the party.
- Grown children for their parents, often as the closing moment of the toasts.
- Both of them together, for a vow renewal.
For example
A daughter writing for her parents' silver anniversary could type:
- Mom and Dad married in a church in Tulsa during an ice storm in 2001.
- Dad still leaves her a note on the coffee maker every morning.
- They taught all three of us to dance in the kitchen on Friday nights.
More song ideas
Questions
Twenty-five years deserve their own song.
Start with the name of the one you married and the weather on the wedding day.