A Personalized Wedding Gift the Couple Will Actually Keep: Their Own Song

Somewhere between the registry link and the envelope of cash, wedding gifts lost the plot. You want to give the couple something that says "I watched you two find each other and it made my year," and instead you are comparing blender wattage. If you are hunting for a personalized wedding gift that will not end up in a cupboard next to two other blenders, here is a thought: give the newlyweds the one thing no other guest can duplicate - their own song.

The trouble with wedding presents

Registries are practical, and practical is fine. But practical is also forgettable. Ten years from now the couple will not remember who gave the towels, and the cash envelope, useful as it was, dissolved into the honeymoon budget within a week. Weddings are strange this way: the most emotional day two people will ever host gets celebrated with the least emotional gifts imaginable. Meanwhile the moments everyone actually remembers - the speech, the first dance, the grandmother crying happy tears - cost almost nothing and were all made of words and music.

A personalized wedding gift with their story in it

This is where a custom song earns its place. With TaleInTune you answer six questions about the couple - what they are like, two or three memories you share with them or know about them, and the message you want to send them into married life with. From your answers an individual song is created with their names in the lyrics, performed with real-sounding vocals and delivered as a studio-quality MP3. The awkward way they met, the road trip that nearly ended the relationship, the proposal that did not go to plan - it all becomes verses and a chorus that exists nowhere else on earth.

Listen to 60 seconds free before you decide

The reasonable fear with any custom gift is that it might arrive and feel off. TaleInTune removes that fear in the most direct way possible: you hear the first 60 seconds of the actual finished song, free, before paying. If it does not give you goosebumps, you close the page and owe nothing. If it does, the full song is

9.97 and lands in your inbox within 24 hours - or $49.97 for express delivery in as little as 30 minutes, which can rescue a best man the night before the speech. You also get free revisions of lyrics, style or vocals through a personal link - no cap on the count - and if the song ever needs more tuning, an email with your order number to info@taleintune.com takes care of it.

How to surprise the newlyweds with it

The song includes personal-use rights, so the couple can play it at the party, on the honeymoon and at every anniversary after. It is available in 14 languages, which helps when two families do not share one.

Every couple gets towels. Very few get a song written about the exact way they found each other. Answer six questions, hear your free 60 seconds, and walk into that wedding with the gift everyone talks about on the drive home.