Weddingbee Blog

When I first got engaged, I swept up any and all books with the words “marriage”, “bride” and “wedding” in the title. Now, almost a year later, I finally finished one of them.

The book is “Bride in Overdrive” by Jorie Green Mark - it’s a non-fiction book about her descent into wedding insanity, and how she came out of it unscathed. This book is hilarious!

One of the things that made me laugh out loud: after reading a few wedding magazines, she demanded that her father provide a budget for lobster as the main course. Oddly enough, she doesn’t even LIKE lobster, but hey, that’s what the magazines said (yes, she realizes her mistake). Another time, she and her fiance got into an altercation while registering for gifts - all things the magazines said she had to have. I can relate to that doubt that comes with reading magazines like that, because I myself felt the same way.

A lot of the time I was laughing my ass off, feeling a little bit silly for actually relating to it. Rarely would I disagree with her, does this make me insane too? While being a book about the road to marriage, it’s also a little bit about a girl who didn’t really have faith in love, but was trying to find it.

The author has a great voice, and makes me laugh out loud. As a bride in planning myself, a lot of this hit home, especially when she would go to other weddings, and constantly cause herself to rethink everything planned already, because someone did something different.

Even though it’s not a how-to book, it’s still a fun read and hysterical. And FYI, she’s not a complete bitch, I promise!