For your wife
Every year you buy a card with someone else's words in it. This year, use yours, and let her hear them sung.
An anniversary song for your wife, written from your story
The best anniversary songs for a wife are built from the things only her husband noticed. Our own sample, Ten Octobers with You, came from four sentences a husband typed about a rainy platform, an umbrella and a dog called Murphy.
Hear the second a name lands
Saoirse, my love, you are my home.
You wrote“She lent me her umbrella and kept it for a year.”
The song singsYou shared your small umbrella on the platform. I kept it safe for a whole year.
From a real song made here: “Ten Octobers with You”, for Saoirse, from what her husband typed.
The moment you give it
She takes the call in the parking lot of her office, wondering what's wrong. Nothing is. The song tells the story of a borrowed umbrella, and she stays out there long after it ends.
Lunch break, the day of
Home
On speaker
“Can you step outside for two minutes?”
Start with one memory
Pick a question. The form opens with your first line already started.
A real anniversary song for a wife
Ten Octobers with You was made here from a husband's brief for his wife Saoirse, unedited.
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.
What husbands write that works
- The way she laughs, or the thing that always makes her laugh.
- Where you met, with one physical detail: the rain, the bar stool, the bus seat.
- Something she did early on that told you she was the one.
- A weekly habit of hers you would miss most.
- A time she held the family together.
- The number of years, if you want it sung.
- What you would say if you were better at saying things.
Turning your lines into verses
In our sample, 'She lent me her umbrella and kept it for a year' came back as a line about a small umbrella on a platform, and 'Ten years this October' became the closing image of ten Octobers. Plain sentences are all the song needs.
Voice and style
Most husbands choose a male voice so the song sounds like it comes from them; our sample does. Acoustic pop and piano ballad are the usual styles, and country suits couples who have danced to it for years.
Giving it to her
- Send it to her phone while she is at work, with nothing but the date.
- Play it at the anniversary dinner, between the main course and dessert.
- Leave it playing in the kitchen when she wakes up.
- Pair it with the traditional gift for your year, from paper at one to gold at fifty.
More song ideas
Questions
Tell her in a song this year.
Type her first name and where the two of you met.