Before you tie the knot, you want to know your partner really well, right? We’ve rounded up four top books every bride should read before the wedding to focus on what really matters: a long and happy marriage. We’ve included one on love, one on happiness, a book on inspiring yourself, and a fun book you can work on together. Find out what made our list…
Books Every Bride Should Read Before the Wedding
1. The 5 Love Languages by Gary D. Chapman
This book covers the languages of love, pretty appropriate for a couple getting married, no? As the book states, “By learning the five love languages, you and your spouse will discover your unique love languages and learn practical steps in truly loving each other. Chapters are categorized by love language for easy reference, and each one ends with specific, simple steps to express a specific language to your spouse and guide your marriage in the right direction.”
2. The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
How to focus on things that really matter and find your happiness.
3. The Newlywed’s Instruction Manual by Caroline Tiger
This is an essential guide for every couple just starting their new life together.
4. What I Love About You by Kate Marshall and David Marshall
This is a fun book you fill in together: you’ll discover and remember reasons why you love one another.
Looking for wedding planning books, I recommend The Handcrafted Wedding and The Inspired Wedding.
xo
-E.
2 comments
Hi Lisa,
We are happy to hear your viewpoints on the books mentioned. I agree that The Happiness Project should be read by everyone, not just brides. Thanks for the comment — we’re always happy to hear from our readers, even when they don’t agree with what we present in an article.
I’ll have to check out the books you’re reading. It looks like a fascinating list.
Best wishes on your wedding day! I hope it is everything you’ve dreamed it would be.
-E.
I’m sorry, but I find this post really Icky.
Naf.
Irksome.
Disappointing.
Honestly.
The happiness project, if its as good as its reviews say, should be read by anyone– not just by brides hoping to manufacture some loving feels when they’re stressed out.
But the idea that a bride should be reading this rubbish self help stuff when you’re in the middle of planning everything, and in very real and ever present danger of losing yourself in the seas of tradition… well its just rubbish.
And patronising.
And disappointing.
There’s already enough pressure to manufacture yourself as a “bride”. How about not making your wedding the be all and end all of your life… and if you don’t know your partner well enough already how about not marrying them in the first place?
lets not sell women the fiction of “bride” anymore.
I’m not talking out my arse either.
I’m getting married myself in 3 weeks, to my best friend/ love of my life.
What am I reading these days? Johnathan Safran Foer: Eating Animals, The Hobbit (german translation), a self published book a friend wrote, and apparently some rubbishy posts like this one.
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