Ben, in my opinion, the best workout is the one you are going to do. So whatever exercises your wife loves (and it's totally awesome that she loves a lot of big, compound lifts) are probably going to be best for her. Maybe she'll come around to swings later, if not, she'll probably be fine.
Claude, you could certainly do deadlifts and getups as your workout. But as you know, you would no longer be following the program(s). But you would be following the spirit of the program(s).
Dan John has a great article about this that includes many 2 exercise pairings (including the deadlift and getup): http://danjohn.net/2013/10/the-promised-18-week-protocol/
Hopefully it will help you out with setting up your workouts.