Richard Curtis approached Wet Wet Wet about recording a cover song to soundtrack his film Four Weddings and a Funeral. The band got to pick between three choices of songs, the other two being "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor and "Can't Smile Without You" by Barry Manilow. Singer Marti Pellow related that the decision to pick "Love is All Around" was an easy choice "because we knew we could make it our own".
The song spent a further 22 weeks in the UK Top 75. It has sold 1.88 million copies in the United Kingdom, making it the country's best-selling love ballad of all time.
