A Personal Song for Your Wife: 6 Classics Plus a Custom One

You want a song that says something to your wife, something that fits her and not just anyone. Maybe you have searched for the right love song and found a hundred lists that all name the same tracks. What you are really after is a song that feels like it belongs to the two of you.

Six love songs written with a real wife in mind

These are songs that famous artists wrote or dedicated to the women they loved. They make a good playlist. They also make the case for why the most personal option is a song written about your wife by name, which is exactly what we do at Penned For You.

1. "Perfect" by Ed Sheeran (2017) A waltz-time ballad from the album ÷, and Sheeran wrote it about his wife, then girlfriend, Cherry Seaborn. He set out to write the best love song of his career, and the plainspoken lyric is why it became a first-dance staple at weddings.

2. "All of Me" by John Legend (2013) Legend recorded this one for his fourth album, Love in the Future, and dedicated it to his wife, Chrissy Teigen. The music video was shot in Italy just days before the wedding and ends with footage from their actual ceremony in Lake Como. A piano and a voice, nothing hiding the feeling.

3. "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" by Stevie Wonder (1973) This 1973 single gave Wonder his third chart-topper on the Billboard Hot 100 and his first on the Easy Listening chart. It was the second single, following "Superstition," from the 1972 album Talking Book. Warm, unhurried, and easy to sing across a kitchen.

4. "At Last" by Etta James (1960) The title track from James's debut album, At Last!, released November 15, 1960. Decades later it earned lasting recognition, including induction into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. The strings and that voice have made it a wedding standard for decades.

5. "Can't Help Falling in Love" by Elvis Presley (1961) Released November 21, 1961, from the album Blue Hawaii, and written by Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore, and George David Weiss. Its melody draws on "Plaisir d'amour," a French love song written back in 1784 by Jean-Paul-Égide Martini. Slow, certain, and built for a slow dance.

6. "Something" by The Beatles (1969) George Harrison's most celebrated love song. In her 2007 autobiography, his then-wife Pattie Boyd wrote that he told her plainly he had written it for her. Harrison later gave other inspirations for the song and in 1996 stepped back from the idea that he wrote it for Boyd. The tenderness is real either way.

The most personal option: a custom song about your wife Every song above was written by someone about a specific person, which is why they land. The catch is that they are about someone else. A custom song from Penned For You puts your wife's actual name in the lyrics, along with the inside jokes and the details only you would know. That is the version she cannot hear anywhere else.

A great cover says "this reminds me of you." A custom song says "this is you." That is the difference we build for. You fill out a short form, about five minutes, with her name, how you met, the things that make her her, and any notes you want in the lyrics. We write and produce the song from that brief. Standard turnaround is 24 hours, and if the occasion is closer than that, the 1-hour rush has you covered. A custom song starts at $29.99, with 24-hour standard turnaround and 1-hour rush. Start your song and we will turn what you know about her into something she can play on repeat. Write their song when you are ready.

The classics are lovely, and they will always have a place on the playlist. When you want the one song that is unmistakably hers, we will write it for you.