1st anniversary
One year of firsts: first lease, first holidays split two ways, first real fight and first real making up.
A first anniversary song about your first year together
The first year is all firsts: the first home or the first shared lease, the first holidays split between two families, the first real argument and the making up after. A song made from those details is a gift neither of you could have had a year ago.
Hear the second a name lands
Theo, you are my favorite place to go
You wrote“Theo leaves sticky notes with terrible drawings on the bathroom mirror.”
The song singsYour sticky notes on the mirror make me smile
From a real song made here: “Our First Key”, for Theo, from what his girlfriend typed.
The moment you give it
The first anniversary is traditionally paper, so you leave it as a note on the fridge you picked out together. The song walks through the year's firsts, and the last one is this.
Year one, on the fridge
Twelve months. A lot of firsts.
Here is a song for all of them.
Start with one memory
Pick a question. The form opens with your first line already started.
An anniversary song from our samples
Written for a tenth anniversary, but the same kind of brief works for year one.
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.
Paper, the first anniversary gift
Paper is the traditional gift for a first anniversary. A song fits that easily: write the lyric sheet out by hand on good paper, fold it into a card, and play the song when they open it.
What to write about year one
- The first trip you took as a married couple, even a weekend away.
- The wedding day, or the day you decided this was serious.
- The first place you lived together and what was wrong with it.
- A new habit you picked up from each other.
- The first holiday you hosted, or survived.
- Something small they did this year that you have not thanked them for yet.
- What you want year two to look like.
For example
A first anniversary brief can be this short:
- The surprise nobody warned you about in the first year of marriage.
- We got married at the county courthouse and ate tacos in the parking lot after.
- Our first apartment had a radiator that clanked all night and we named it Gerald.
- He learned to make my mom's soup so I would stop missing home.
Style and voice
Year one is usually light on regrets, so acoustic pop or upbeat pop tends to fit. Pick the voice that sounds like you singing to them.
More song ideas
Questions
One year in, one song about it.
Type their first name and the first thing that went wrong in your first home.