50 Best Anniversary Dinner Songs for IG Reels & Stories

Best Songs for an Anniversary Dinner on Instagram Reels and Stories

There’s a strange kind of magic in the air during an anniversary dinner. It’s part celebration, part reflection, and part wondering how time managed to slip by so quickly. The right song doesn’t need to be literal to land—it can be a track that feels warm under the low light of a restaurant, or one that crackles with memory when the wine starts kicking in. Some pop, rock, country, and R&B songs weren’t written with anniversaries in mind, but they still fit the mood, looping around shared jokes and quiet pauses that never make it onto the feed.

The soundtrack has to float between moods. Maybe it leans into syrupy nostalgia that makes the night feel cinematic, or maybe it cuts the sweetness with something a little playful to keep things from tipping into cliché. A track can sound like late-night promises, or like the nervous energy of that first date replayed years later, only steadier now. Every couple knows the inside jokes and half-embarrassing tracks that somehow still feel perfect when the volume’s low and the lights are soft.

Some moments want the big sweeping ballad. Others need the song that sounds like two people cracking up over dessert. The trick is that none of these tracks try too hard to be romantic—they land better when they sit in the moment and leave room for the messiness of real memory. That’s where this playlist comes in. Here are the best anniversary dinner songs for Instagram reels and stories.

1. 'All of Me' by John Legend

2. 'Perfect' by Ed Sheeran

3. 'Thinking Out Loud' by Ed Sheeran

4. 'At Last' by Etta James

5. 'Lover' by Taylor Swift

6. 'Can't Help Falling in Love' by Elvis Presley

7. 'Just the Way You Are' by Bruno Mars

8. 'You're Still the One' by Shania Twain

9. 'Let's Stay Together' by Al Green

10. 'Everything' by Michael Bublé

11. 'I Will Always Love You' by Whitney Houston

12. 'Make You Feel My Love' by Adele

13. 'How Deep Is Your Love' by Bee Gees

14. 'Love Story' by Taylor Swift

15. 'The Best Is Yet to Come' by Frank Sinatra

16. 'The Way You Look Tonight' by Fred Astaire

17. 'Crazy Love' by Van Morrison

18. 'My Girl' by The Temptations

19. 'Signed, Sealed, Delivered' by Stevie Wonder

20. 'God Only Knows' by The Beach Boys

21. 'You Are the Best Thing' by Ray LaMontagne

22. 'Better Together' by Jack Johnson

23. 'Say You Won't Let Go' by James Arthur

24. 'Kiss Me' by Sixpence None The Richer

25. 'A Thousand Years' by Christina Perri

26. 'I'm Yours' by Jason Mraz

27. 'First Day of My Life' by Bright Eyes

28. 'Until I Found You' by Stephen Sanchez

29. 'I Wanna Be Yours' by Arctic Monkeys

30. 'Tennessee Whiskey' by Chris Stapleton

31. 'I Don't Want to Miss a Thing' by Aerosmith

32. 'Yellow' by Coldplay

33. 'You Make My Dreams' by Hall & Oates

34. 'The Way I Am' by Ingrid Michaelson

35. 'Ain't No Mountain High Enough' by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell

36. 'Love on the Brain' by Rihanna

37. 'Adorn' by Miguel

38. 'Mirrors' by Justin Timberlake

39. 'Crazy in Love' by Beyoncé

40. 'Let Me Love You' by Mario

41. 'Wonderful Tonight' by Eric Clapton

42. 'Truly Madly Deeply' by Savage Garden

43. 'Take My Breath Away' by Berlin

44. 'Come Away With Me' by Norah Jones

45. 'I Just Called to Say I Love You' by Stevie Wonder

46. 'Your Song' by Elton John

47. 'Love Me Tender' by Elvis Presley

48. 'Stand by Me' by Ben E. King

49. 'Love Me Like You Do' by Ellie Goulding

50. 'Dance Me to the End of Love' by Leonard Cohen