Thomas Nelson has sold more than 100,000 e-books of Rachel Hauck's The Wedding Dress. The novel hit the USA Today and Wall Street Journal’s best-seller lists in February and the New York Times list in March, four years after its release.

In addition to its e-book success, The Wedding Dress has sold more than 40,000 copies in print.  Recent renewed interest launched the title to a No. 2 spot on the New York Times best-seller list for E-book Fiction and No. 6 for Combined Print and E-book Fiction.

Hauck worked alongside Thomas Nelson to find new ways to put this story in the hands of women young and old. The e-book's success stands out in a market where religious e-books have recently been posting declines in year-over-year sales.

Daisy Hutton, vice president and fiction publisher at Thomas Nelson, commented on the book’s recent success. 

“The story of The Wedding Dress is truly captivating and universal,” Hutton said.  “It explores our fascination with the past as well as our faith and our hope for the future, all captured in the symbol of something so treasured—the perfect wedding dress. We are very proud of Rachel, of this story and of the ground-swelling support we’ve received from readers.”

Hauck shared what inspired her to write the book.

"I'm honored so many are reading The Wedding Dress, a book inspired during a girls' weekend in Nashville,” Hauck said. “Our hostess was telling us of finding her daughter's wedding dress, along with the story of her own gown, and I was suddenly lost in the idea of a wedding dress worn by four women over the span of a hundred years. The idea hit instantly and sank deep. I knew I had to write the story of that dress and the women who wore it."

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