Custom wedding and celebration songs
Made from what you actually say, in the music you already love.
The cake is eaten in an hour. The flowers fade in a week.
The two of you together, or one of you alone if it is a surprise. Recorded, and transcribed in full. How you met, what you promised, the things only you find funny.
Not a song about you. A song of you. Nothing borrowed from anywhere else, nothing invented to fill a gap. Recorded vows can be woven into the tracks themselves.
The songs you grew up on and the songs you play today, blended into something that should not exist. Couples tend to call it an impossible mix, and that is exactly the intention.
Cover art included. Yours to walk down the aisle to, and to play on the anniversary of every year that follows.
Spotify, Apple Music and fifty other platforms, so you can send it to everyone who was there and everyone who was not. Or it stays private, and nobody else ever hears it.
Listen to two real albums,made for two real couples.
They made it for themselves, for the fifteenth anniversary. Both of them sat for the interview and both of them answered, so the album is the two accounts laid over each other: what each said about the other, and the places where the two versions turned out to be the same story told twice.
A gift from one to the other, for the fifth anniversary. He sat for the interview alone and answered every question about a marriage she had no idea was being written down. She knew nothing about any of it until she heard her own love described back to her, in his words, set to music.
Made one person at a time, for every other kind of turning point. Every one of them is real, and every one is on Spotify and fifty other services.
Nobody can tell youwhat it will sound like.
Not even us, until the two of you have spoken.
What comes back is made of what you actually said to each other, and nothing else. If you bring the version you post, that is the version you will hear.
People assume the music is the hard part. The music is the smallest part.
One to three hours, depending on how deep you want it to go. The discipline is clean language, developed by the psychologist David Grove. The interviewer's words never enter your answers, so what comes back is yours and not a version of you shaped by the person asking.
Mapping the metaphors, the anchors and the recurring images, then rebuilding them into one arc. This is the part that decides whether the album sounds like you, or merely sounds like a song.
A songwriter normally has the entire dictionary and every metaphor in the world. Here the lyrics can be built only from the pieces you gave us, and nothing else.
Either a studio band of eight to twelve session musicians over three to five months, or our digital studio in one to two weeks.
A questionnaire of more than twenty questions, and no two couples answer it the same way.
Between one and six hours of work on a single song, depending on how long it resists.
One song took two hundred and seventy attempts before one was kept.
The aim is that every word is yours. Nothing borrowed, nothing invented.
You decide whether your album is published or stays entirely private. Some are on every platform. Others have never been heard by anyone outside the family they were made for.
What the people these albums belong to have said about them is theirs to give. As each of them says yes, their words appear here, exactly as they said them, unedited. Nothing on this page will ever be tidied, because tidying someone's words is the exact thing this work exists to refuse.
The photograph keeps how you looked. The film keeps how the day moved. Your Sonic Union keeps how you felt inside about each other, in the words you used before anyone else had heard them.
It belongs with the things a wedding commissions rather than buys: the portrait, the ring, the dress made for one body. Made the traditional way, a custom album runs to fifty or a hundred thousand dollars and six to twelve months, by which time the day has cooled.
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Tell us what you want, and tell us who you are. Your choices and seven questions — under three minutes.
We read every one. Within twenty-four hours you will hear back: whether we have room to take you on, and when.
If we do, we send you the intake questionnaire — the long one, where we learn who you are, where you come from, and the story the album will be made of. Then we settle the practical things: payment, which is always in full and up front; the date of your interview; and the date your album comes to you.
You get back what you give.Your making this important is what makes it important.
Five choices. The price and the timeline build as you go, and you see every total before you give us a single detail about yourselves.
This is not the questionnaire — that comes later, with tea, once we have spoken. This is only how we find each other. One Send carries your choices from step one and these seven answers together, and Vanessa writes back within the hour — with what you chose, your total, and the link to the full questionnaire.
The agreements behind the album, in plain words. Open what you need — and if you are a wedding planner, this section is for you.
Everything is paid in full before work begins. That is how we can give the work the attention it needs without a meter running.
There are no refunds, with one exception: if we have not delivered your album within the time we promised you, you get your money back.
An album is an artwork, not a draft. Revisions are not included in the price, because the work is made once, carefully, from what you told us.
If you do want changes afterwards, we will make them, and we charge a flat $150 an hour for the human time it takes. We will tell you the estimate before we start.
If your album is made with our AI studio, we guarantee the date. No delay is acceptable and none will happen.
If your album is made with our studio band, real musicians are involved, and musicians are people. Their lives happen. The date we give you is the date we expect, and behind it we hold fifty percent more time — so that a delay on someone else's end never becomes a broken promise on ours. We will always do our best work and give you the best result we can. We cannot control other human beings, and we would rather tell you that plainly than pretend otherwise.
Every song remains the copyright of Mercedes Noam Kostucki, as its artist.
What you receive is a licence to use your album personally, for anything you like, for the rest of your life. Play it, share it, give it to your family, play it at your wedding and at every anniversary after it. That licence is free, unlimited and yours.
Commercial use is a different thing. If you want your song in something you are paid for — a film, an advertisement, a product, a campaign — you need a commercial licence. Talk to us first and we will explain how it works. That is a separate arrangement, and it is what Sonic Brands exists for.
By default your album is released, and it earns its keep on streaming platforms afterwards. That is part of how this work is priced.
If you would rather nobody outside your family ever hears it, we can make it completely private — never released, never streamed, never on any platform. Because a private album will never earn anything after you have paid for it, making an album private costs an additional 50% of the album price.
Some of our albums are on every platform. Others have never been heard by anyone outside the family they were made for. Both are entirely normal. If you start one way and change your mind later, that is fine too — the same fee applies at that point.
The interview is yours. We do not publish your album, your words or your names anywhere unless you tell us we can.
Whether the album itself is released or kept entirely private is its own decision, with its own terms — that is the clause just above this one.
Talk to us first — almost everything is solvable by a conversation. If it genuinely cannot be resolved, these terms are governed by the laws of Costa Rica.
These terms are written to be read, not to be survived. If anything here is unclear, ask us and we will explain it properly.
We also take on larger commissions — films, brands, institutions, projects that need original music built from a real story. If that is what brought you here, tell us about it.
