Sure, you’re no fan of the wedding industrial complex and the nauseating pressure it creates, but oftentimes those weddings in magazines are so pretty. And wouldn’t it be flattering if The Knot thought your wedding was pretty, too, and wanted to feature it in their print magazine? Eh? Ehhhh?
As noticed by a tipster who's knee deep in organizing her upcoming wedding, The Knot has made some changes to its popular, personalized wedding planning feature. The "ultimate checklist" they've long provided to help brides stay on task has a bold new emphasis on your smoking bridal bod, naturally.
Spotted today in Washington Square Park: Evidence of The Knot's New York street campaign, featuring sweet quotes meticulously presented with adorable fonts in Pantone-approved colors. Never mind that this particular piece of marketing is located where there are likely few people planning weddings—let's talk about who,…
Former NFL star Keyshawn Johnson and his fiancé Jennifer Conrad went the "most expensive option possible" route when choosing the invitations for their upcoming nuptials. Who needs hand calligraphy when you can have an iPad?
In theory, wedding hashtags are awesome but when total strangers start congratulating you on your nuptial photos, shit can get weird. Unless, of course, you are Tinker Bell or, say, Kim and Kanye and your whole life's existence is based on strangers knowing your most intimate moments and clapping.
There's a lot of wedding advice floating around the Internet. Problem is, a lot of it is useless fluff dreamed up by a) relatively well-heeled editors contractually obligated to spend their days inventing absurd nonsense to fill pages surrounded by advertisements b) people who've never planned a wedding/mistakenly…
It took more than a year of wedding planning, but it finally happened: I snapped and started frantically scanning the Internet for weight-loss schemes. A couple of unflattering pictures from a bridal shower and I basically blacked out and woke up a half an hour later, hovering over the "buy" button on a Groupon juice…
The Knot Live, the wedding planning site's new "show" whose first episode ran today, is quite entertaining in a wedding-mag sorta way. But 12 -12:30? Either these brides are not working, or that's a lonely lunch hour...[TheKnot]
For the groom who needs to know wedding etiquette like, oh, what constitutes "cheating" at a bachelor party, (because that's what men are like, you see) comes manly site ThePlunge.com!
• 23-year-old Christina Raines, mother of two and Drew Peterson's newest girlfriend, has just moved in with him. Her family and friends are understandably upset. •
Silicon Alley Insider reports that wedding planning/propaganda website The Knot might be closing. Reportedly, Macy's may not renew its registry contract, and the site is bleeding staff and looking for skilled interns. [Silicon Alley Insider]
The Knot.com's messageboards bring us yet another bride in crisis. Poor Dawn-Marie! Her post on the "Planning & Etiquette" messageboard is titled please help :( and she writes:
Poor TheKnot.com message boarder k&b10312002. She turned to her fellow brides-to-be for some advice: Seems the poor dear had a bad run-in with some tingling, warming lube! She was hoping the other gals might be able to recommend a more pleasurable alternative. But the Knotties are not naughty at all! In fact, based on…
"Denise2005" aka "Matilda&Leon", a married lady with a baby in the hospital, is having some connubial un-bliss, she tells the other ladies on relationship site TheNest.com:
