Ruby anniversary · 40 years · £24.99
Forty years together. That's worth a song.
A personalised ruby anniversary song, written from your memories of them: how they met, how they laugh, how they still are. Delivered within 24 hours. £24.99.
Whether it's your parents, your grandparents or the two of you, forty years is a story worth singing. Give us the details and we'll give them the song of their marriage.
You approve every lyric · One revision included · Theirs to keep forever
Why ruby?
Forty years is the ruby anniversary
Of all the milestones on the traditional list, ruby might be the best one. Paper, cotton and tin mark the early years, when everything is still being built. Ruby marks four decades, and it stands for something different: not the building, but the fire that's still lit.
That's why a ruby anniversary gift should be about the two of them, not just the number. A song built from their own story, with their names, their beginnings and their daily rituals in it, does what a gemstone can't: it proves someone was paying attention for all forty years.
- The stone
- The ruby's deep red has stood for the heart and its fire for centuries. Forty years in, the tradition says, the flame isn't just alight. It's proven.
- The tradition
- Ruby has marked the 40th anniversary since at least the Victorian era, making it one of the oldest entries on the traditional gift list.
- The modern take
- Modern lists still agree on ruby at 40. What's changed is the gift: today it's less about the stone and more about marking the story.
A worked example
Meet Margaret and Colin, our example couple
They're invented, but every family knows a pair like them. This is the kind of detail we work from. Your song would be built from your own couple's story.
Margaret & Colin
Married since 1986. Met at a bus stop. Still dancing in the kitchen.
- Met at a bus stop in the rain, 1984
- He makes the tea, she says it's wrong
- Motown in the kitchen every Sunday
- Two kids, five grandkids, one caravan
What their daughter told us
Mum and Dad met at a bus stop in a downpour in 1984. Dad offered her his jacket and missed his own bus on purpose. Forty years on, he still makes her tea wrong every morning and she still drinks it. They put Motown on when they do the washing up and think nobody knows they dance. We want the song to sound like their kitchen on a Sunday.
The sort of thing a daughter might send us
Read the lyrics: Forty SpringsPiano ballad · Tender male vocals · Ruby anniversary
Verse 1
A bus stop in the rain, nineteen eighty-four,Her umbrella blown to ribbons by the wind.He offered up his jacket, soaked through to the core,And forty springs from that first storm, she'd still let him in.
Chorus
Forty years of morning tea, made wrong the whole way through,Motown in the kitchen, still dancing like they're new.A ruby's just a stone until it catches light,Like Margaret and her Colin, still burning bright.
Verse 2
Two kids and a caravan, five grandkids on the floor,The photographs climb the staircase, year on year on year.He still can't work the telly, she still bolts the door,And neither one remembers life before they landed here.
Margaret and Colin's song came from one rainy bus stop and a lifetime of small rituals. Every couple has their own version. Tell us theirs.
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What to put in a ruby anniversary song
The best anniversary songs are made of small true things. These are the ones to dig for.
How it started
The bus stop, the blind date, the wedding where they met. Forty years later, the beginning is the best verse there is.
The daily rituals
The wrong tea, the crossword, the side of the bed. The tiny things repeated for four decades are the marriage.
What they built
Kids, grandkids, the garden, the caravan, the house with the photographs up the stairs. Name it all.
The happy argument
Every long marriage has one debate that's still officially unresolved. It belongs in the bridge.
From your memories to their song
How it works
Four little questions, a lyric approval, and the song of forty years lands in your inbox within 24 hours.
Tell us about them
The memories, the inside jokes, the things that make them them. Three minutes, tops.
We write, you approve
We turn your words into lyrics and send them to you before we produce a single note.
Delivered within 24 hours
A professionally produced song lands in your inbox, ready for the big moment.
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How should their song sound?
Pick a style. Not sure? Choose Surprise me and we'll match it to their story.
Takes about three minutes · Your answers save as you go
Before you ask
Questions, answered
Timings, family collaborations and how the writing works.
What should a ruby anniversary song include?
How they met, the rituals they still keep and what forty years has built around them. One good story from the early days plus a couple of present-day details is the perfect recipe. We'll shape it into verses.
Is this a gift from the family or from one of us?
Either works beautifully. Children and grandchildren often club together and send us memories from the whole family. If it's from you to your other half, write it in your own voice and we'll keep that perspective in the lyrics.
Can it mention how they met?
Please let it. The how-we-met story is usually the strongest verse in an anniversary song, and after forty years it has often become family legend. Give us the version everyone tells at Christmas.
We're having a party. Will the song arrive in time?
Your song is delivered within 24 hours of ordering, so there's time even if the party is this weekend. You approve the lyrics first, so a quick reply on your side keeps everything moving.
Do we get to check the lyrics first?
Yes. You read and approve every line before production, and one revision is included free. Forty years of story deserves to be told exactly right.
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Forty years. Give it a soundtrack.
Tell us how they met, how they bicker and how they still dance in the kitchen. We'll write the rest, delivered within 24 hours.
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