bride vs other half

bride

noun
  • A woman in the context of her own wedding; one who is going to marry or has just been married. 

  • Coordinate terms: bridegroom, groom 

  • an individual loop or other device connecting the patterns in lacework 

other half

noun
  • A spouse. 

How often have the words bride and other half occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )