Custom songs by occasion
A custom wedding song, written about the two of you
First dances, aisle walks and speeches that need something nobody else has heard. From $21.99, ready in as little as an hour.
Every wedding playlist has the same forty songs on it. The one moment that could belong entirely to the couple usually gets handed to whoever charted in the year they met. A custom song fixes that: the first dance becomes about the actual couple, with the actual story, in front of everyone who lived it with them.
You answer a few questions about how they met, what they always say, the small ridiculous details only their friends know. We write original lyrics from those answers and record them properly, with real arrangement and studio-quality vocals. What comes back is a finished record, not a novelty.
What to put in a wedding brief
Weddings are the easiest occasion to write for, because the couple has already told the story a hundred times. Give us the version their friends tell.
How they actually met
Not the polished version. The wrong bus stop, the terrible coffee queue, the friend who set it up and takes full credit at every party.
The phrase one of them always says
The thing that gets quoted back at them. Dropped into a chorus, this is the line that makes the room turn and look at each other.
One specific object or place
The flat with the broken radiator, the green coat, the drive to the coast. Specifics are what stop a lyric sounding like a greetings card.
Who the song is from
A partner writing for the other, a parent, the best man, or the whole family together. It changes the voice of the whole lyric.
Which genre tends to work
Piano ballad
The safe, devastating choice for a first dance. Slow enough to hold each other to.
Acoustic folk
Warm and unfussy. Works beautifully for an aisle walk or a barn venue.
Soul
For a couple who will actually dance rather than sway. Big chorus, live band feel.
Bollywood
Built for a sangeet or a mehndi, with a hook the whole hall can shout back.
First dance, aisle, or speech
Most people use it for the first dance, and that is where it hits hardest: the DJ introduces a song nobody has heard, the couple realise halfway through the first verse that it is about them, and roughly half the room stops pretending to be fine.
It also works as the aisle walk, played instead of a string cover, or dropped in at the end of a speech when the words have run out. Some people give it as the gift itself, on a card with a link, and let the couple play it privately first.
What you get
A full-length original song, two to three minutes, with verses, a chorus and a real arrangement in the genre and voice you choose. It arrives on its own page with the lyric sheet, plus a download you keep forever.
There is no subscription, no watermark and no expiry. Play it at the reception, send it round the family group chat, put it on the anniversary playlist next year.
When to order a wedding song
Order it a week or two before the day if you can. Not because we need the time, Express delivery is one hour, but because you will want to hear it a few times before you stand in front of everyone with it.
If you are reading this the night before, that is fine too. Pick Express, fill in the form in ten minutes and the song will be in your inbox before you have finished panicking about the speech.
Questions
Can we use a custom song for our first dance?
Yes, that is the most common use. The song arrives as a high quality audio file you can hand to your DJ or band, or play straight from your phone. Two to three minutes is the standard first dance length.
How long before the wedding should we order?
A week or two is comfortable, mostly so you can listen to it a few times first. If you are short on time, Express delivery is one hour, so ordering the night before still works.
Can the song be a surprise for the couple?
Often it is. Friends, parents and wedding parties order it without telling the couple, then play it at the reception. Tell us who it is from and we write the lyric from that point of view.
What if a detail comes out wrong?
Tell us and we run it again. The song is not finished until it sounds like them.
Ready when you are
About ten minutes of questions. A finished song in as little as an hour, from $21.99, yours to keep forever.
Start their song