A Perfect Custom Song for Bride and Groom

They tell the how-we-met story differently and both of them are certain they have it right. He says she came over to him. She says she was walking to the bar and he was standing in the way. This is the one song that has to be true to both people, so it needs both versions.

We ask for both. If you are the couple, answer separately and do not compare notes first. Send us the parts that do not match. Those gaps are what we build the verse around, written as a disagreement rather than flattened into one agreed account.

If you are the friend or the maid of honor ordering this as a surprise, you can collect the same thing quietly. Text each of them something small and innocent. Who spoke first. What he was wearing. Neither question sounds like research. Send us both answers, tell us who said what, and we keep the two voices distinct so it does not sound like one person speaking on behalf of the couple.

Small things carry it. The apartment with the broken buzzer. The car that got them through the long-distance year and died the month they finally moved in together. The dog that arrived before the ring did.

Tell us where in the night it plays, because a first dance and the eleven o clock stretch of the reception are not the same song, and a room of a hundred and forty people includes his grandmother. Name the slot and tell us how far we can push the jokes, and we write to that room.

You get an original studio-quality song written from what you send, $19.99, delivered by email within 24 hours, with time left to get the file to the DJ or the band.

Write down both versions of how they met, his and hers, in the words they each use. Send those and we take it from there.