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Christmas songs for wife: 16 Christmas love songs for a slow dance by the tree

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16 songs · Updated 19 October 2026

Christmas is busy for a couple: two families, a lot of driving, a lot of wrapping. The moments that stay with you are the small ones, like the two of you alone in the living room after everyone has gone to bed, the tree still lit.

These are Christmas love songs for that moment, and a few for the morning after. Some are classic, some newer, plus a handful of love songs that are not about Christmas at all but fit it perfectly. Each is a real recording with a note on when to play it.

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How you met, your first Christmas together, the tradition you started without meaning to. Tell us a few details and we turn your story into lyrics and a finished song with her name in it, ready in minutes. You hear a free preview first. Here is one we made for a wife.

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Twenty Five Years of Love
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Twenty Five Years of Love

For My Love From David

"My love, my love Twenty-five years and I'm still fallin' My love, my love You're still the answer when my heart's callin'..."

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Christmas love songs for her

Songs where Christmas is the backdrop and she is the point.

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    Merry Christmas, Darling — Carpenters, 1970

    Karen Carpenter at her warmest. The Christmas love song to play first.

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    This Christmas — Donny Hathaway, 1970

    Soulful and romantic, all about spending this one together. Perfect while you cook dinner side by side.

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    Mistletoe and Holly — Frank Sinatra, 1957

    Light and charming. For a wife who loves the old-fashioned side of Christmas.

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    What Christmas Means to Me — Stevie Wonder, 1967

    Joyful Motown with a little romance in it. Good for decorating the tree together.

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    Winter Song — Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson, 2008

    Quiet and tender, about love keeping you warm in the cold. Lovely on a snowy evening.

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    You Make It Feel Like Christmas — Gwen Stefani, 2017

    A duet with Blake Shelton, upbeat and sweet. Send it the morning you put the tree up.

For a slow dance by the tree

Lights down, glass of wine, one song. These are slow enough to sway to.

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    I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm — Dean Martin, 1959

    Easy, swinging and a little cheeky. Ask her to dance before you start on the dishes.

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    White Christmas — Michael Bublé & Shania Twain, 2011

    A duet that turns the oldest Christmas song into a love song. Good for a long slow dance.

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    Wrapped in Red — Kelly Clarkson, 2013

    About finally saying how you feel at Christmas. For a wife who likes a big voice.

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    Cold December Night — Michael Bublé, 2011

    A Christmas love song that sounds like an old standard. Put it on late on Christmas Eve.

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    Please Come Home for Christmas — Eagles, 1978

    For a wife who is away over the holidays, for work or with her family. Send it the night before she flies home.

Your first Christmas married

For the first tree you bought together and the first ornament with both names on it.

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    It Must Have Been the Mistletoe — Barbara Mandrell, 1980

    A country song about a couple’s first Christmas. For newlyweds, it is almost too fitting.

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    Perfect — Ed Sheeran, 2017

    Not a Christmas song, but the video is set in the snow and it feels like one. A first-dance favourite to replay at home.

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    Lucky — Jason Mraz & Colbie Caillat, 2008

    A gentle duet about being in love with your best friend. Play it while you hang that first ornament.

Love songs to send with her gift

Not about Christmas, but about her.

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    All of Me — John Legend, 2013

    Piano and a promise. Play it when she opens the gift you thought hardest about.

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    Wonderful Tonight — Eric Clapton, 1977

    About a woman getting ready for a night out. Perfect before the Christmas party, when she asks how she looks.

How to choose

Find the quiet moment

Christmas Day is loud. The best time for a love song is usually late on Christmas Eve or early on Christmas morning, before the family wakes up.

Pick your song, not the top song

If there was a song playing when you met, at your wedding, or on your first Christmas, that one will beat anything on this list. Use these to fill in around it.

Write one line in the card

Tell her which Christmas with her you remember best and why. Put the song on while she reads it.

Questions people ask

What is a good Christmas love song for my wife?

"Merry Christmas, Darling" by the Carpenters and "This Christmas" by Donny Hathaway are the classics. For something newer, "Winter Song" by Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson or the Michael Bublé & Shania Twain duet of "White Christmas".

What Christmas song is good for a slow dance?

"I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" by Dean Martin, "Cold December Night" by Michael Bublé and the Bublé and Twain "White Christmas" are all slow enough to sway to and run around three minutes.

What song fits our first Christmas married?

"It Must Have Been the Mistletoe" by Barbara Mandrell is about a couple’s first Christmas. "Perfect" by Ed Sheeran is not a Christmas song but is set in the snow, and many couples danced to it at their wedding.

Can I give my wife a Christmas song about us?

Yes. Tell us your story, and we turn it into lyrics and a finished song with her name in it. You hear a free preview first, pay only if you love it, and the full song is ready minutes after you pay, any day including Christmas morning. It comes as a private link she can play and download.

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