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.

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.