The Perfect Anniversary Gift for Parents

You are throwing them a party for thirty or forty or fifty years, and somewhere in the planning you realized you only know their story the way you have heard it told at dinner. His version and her version do not match. Your uncle swears the car was green.

That is exactly what belongs in the song. The half-remembered details are the ones worth keeping. The first apartment over the shop with the radiator that banged all night. The car that never started in winter. The wedding song nobody has a recording of, only the name of it and the fact that they danced badly. Ask your siblings, ask their oldest friend, and write down the four or five stories that get retold every year, arguments included. You do not need dates or a clean timeline. You need the objects and the phrases.

Then hand those to us. We take your notes and write and produce an original song from them, so what plays at the party is their story in their order, not a love song that could belong to anyone.

The snag at a party this size is that nobody in the family agrees on music. One of you wants the year they met, someone wants the hymn, and the cousins have opinions about all of it. A song made out of their own story steps around that argument, because what the room recognizes is the names and the objects rather than the genre. Tell us what your parents actually put on in their own kitchen and we build it around that.

An original studio-quality song written from your details, $19.99, delivered by email within 24 hours. There is also a six-song album for $70 if more than one of you wants a version. Start by texting your siblings tonight and asking what they remember.