diff --git a/lib/Cron/Workers/SendingQueue/Tasks/Newsletter.php b/lib/Cron/Workers/SendingQueue/Tasks/Newsletter.php
index 505cd64278..23deda134e 100644
--- a/lib/Cron/Workers/SendingQueue/Tasks/Newsletter.php
+++ b/lib/Cron/Workers/SendingQueue/Tasks/Newsletter.php
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 <?php
 namespace MailPoet\Cron\Workers\SendingQueue\Tasks;
 
+use MailPoet\Models\SendingQueue as SendingQueueModel;
 use MailPoet\Cron\Workers\SendingQueue\Tasks\Links as LinksTask;
 use MailPoet\Cron\Workers\SendingQueue\Tasks\Posts as PostsTask;
 use MailPoet\Cron\Workers\SendingQueue\Tasks\Shortcodes as ShortcodesTask;
@@ -89,7 +90,14 @@ class Newsletter {
     $queue->newsletter_rendered_subject = Shortcodes::process($newsletter->subject, $newsletter, null, $queue);
     $queue->newsletter_rendered_body = $rendered_newsletter;
     $queue->save();
-    if($queue->getErrors()) {
+    // catch DB errors
+    $queue_errors = $queue->getErrors();
+    if(!$queue_errors) {
+      // verify that the rendered body was successfully saved
+      $queue = SendingQueueModel::findOne($queue->id);
+      $queue_errors = ($queue->isRenderedNewsletterBodyValid() !== true);
+    }
+    if($queue_errors) {
       return MailerLog::processError(
         'queue_save',
         __('There was an error processing your newsletter during sending. If possible, please contact us and report this issue.')
diff --git a/lib/Models/SendingQueue.php b/lib/Models/SendingQueue.php
index 7c5c27d844..cd335278e4 100644
--- a/lib/Models/SendingQueue.php
+++ b/lib/Models/SendingQueue.php
@@ -86,9 +86,8 @@ class SendingQueue extends Model {
 
   function asArray() {
     $model = parent::asArray();
-    $model['subscribers'] = (is_serialized($this->subscribers))
-      ? unserialize($this->subscribers)
-      : $this->subscribers;
+    $model['subscribers'] = $this->getSubscribers();
+    $model['newsletter_rendered_body'] = $this->getNewsletterRenderedBody();
     return $model;
   }
 
@@ -120,6 +119,11 @@ class SendingQueue extends Model {
     $this->updateCount();
   }
 
+  function isRenderedNewsletterBodyValid() {
+    $newsletter_body = $this->getNewsletterRenderedBody();
+    return (is_array($newsletter_body) && !empty($newsletter_body['html']) && !empty($newsletter_body['text']));
+  }
+
   function updateCount() {
     $this->subscribers = $this->getSubscribers();
     $this->count_processed = count($this->subscribers['processed']);
diff --git a/tests/unit/Cron/Workers/SendingQueue/Tasks/NewsletterTest.php b/tests/unit/Cron/Workers/SendingQueue/Tasks/NewsletterTest.php
index 1ebabf2599..f0e956a798 100644
--- a/tests/unit/Cron/Workers/SendingQueue/Tasks/NewsletterTest.php
+++ b/tests/unit/Cron/Workers/SendingQueue/Tasks/NewsletterTest.php
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 <?php
 
+use AspectMock\Test as Mock;
 use Codeception\Util\Fixtures;
 use Helper\WordPressHooks as WPHooksHelper;
 use MailPoet\Cron\Workers\SendingQueue\Tasks\Newsletter as NewsletterTask;
@@ -271,6 +272,45 @@ class NewsletterTaskTest extends MailPoetTest {
     }
   }
 
+  function testItLogsErrorWhenQueueRenderedNewsletterBodyIsInvalid() {
+    $queue = $this->queue;
+    $queue_mock = Mock::double(
+      new stdClass(),
+      array(
+        'getNewsletterRenderedBody' => null
+      )
+    );
+    $queue_mock->id = $queue->id;
+
+    // broken serialized object
+    $queue->newsletter_rendered_body = 'a:2:{s:4:"html"';
+    $queue->save();
+    try {
+      $this->newsletter_task->preProcessNewsletter($this->newsletter, $queue_mock);
+      self::fail('Sending error exception was not thrown.');
+    } catch(Exception $e) {
+      $mailer_log = MailerLog::getMailerLog();
+      expect($mailer_log['error']['operation'])->equals('queue_save');
+      expect($mailer_log['error']['error_message'])->equals('There was an error processing your newsletter during sending. If possible, please contact us and report this issue.');
+    }
+  }
+
+  function testItPreProcessesNewsletterWhenQueueRenderedNewsletterBodyIsValid() {
+    $queue = $this->queue;
+    $queue_mock = Mock::double(
+      new stdClass(),
+      array(
+        'getNewsletterRenderedBody' => null
+      )
+    );
+    $queue_mock->id = $queue->id;
+
+    // properly serialized object
+    $queue->newsletter_rendered_body = 'a:2:{s:4:"html";s:4:"test";s:4:"text";s:4:"test";}';
+    $queue->save();
+    expect($this->newsletter_task->preProcessNewsletter($this->newsletter, $queue_mock))->equals($this->newsletter);
+  }
+
   function _after() {
     WPHooksHelper::releaseAllHooks();
     ORM::raw_execute('TRUNCATE ' . Subscriber::$_table);