diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e94bb28c1..682e9cf0e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - Emails attached within other emails are now correctly exported
 - Gracefully handle email and post attachments without name when exporting to eml
 - Use correct timezone for event start and end times in Exchange exports (helps fix issues in relative recurrence patterns)
+- Fixed an issue causing exports dealing with calendar data to have high memory usage
 
 ## [v0.19.0] (beta) - 2024-02-06
 
diff --git a/src/internal/converters/ics/ics.go b/src/internal/converters/ics/ics.go
index dc9e1e2e9..fff9caea3 100644
--- a/src/internal/converters/ics/ics.go
+++ b/src/internal/converters/ics/ics.go
@@ -484,7 +484,14 @@ func updateEventProperties(ctx context.Context, event models.Eventable, iCalEven
 					desc := replacer.Replace(description)
 					iCalEvent.AddProperty("X-ALT-DESC", desc, ics.WithFmtType("text/html"))
 				} else {
-					stripped, err := html2text.FromString(description, html2text.Options{PrettyTables: true})
+					// Disable auto wrap, causes huge memory spikes
+					// https://github.com/jaytaylor/html2text/issues/48
+					prettyTablesOptions := html2text.NewPrettyTablesOptions()
+					prettyTablesOptions.AutoWrapText = false
+
+					stripped, err := html2text.FromString(
+						description,
+						html2text.Options{PrettyTables: true, PrettyTablesOptions: prettyTablesOptions})
 					if err != nil {
 						return clues.Wrap(err, "converting html to text").
 							With("description_length", len(description))