The Knot is the Internet’s most-trafficked one-stop wedding planning solution. Founded in 1996 to offer a much-needed alternative to the white-gloved, outdated advice of the available etiquette experts, The Knot has quickly become the #1 wedding website and America's leading wedding brand reaching out to millions of engaged couples each year.

The brand’s trademark fresh voice and real-world sensibility can be found everywhere a bride looks: on newsstands in national and regional editions of The Knot magazine, in bookstores; in newspapers through Scripps Howard and McClatchy-Tribune News Services; online at major portals like MSN and Comcast, and on TV, through original programming on The Style Network and a weddings-only video-on-demand channel.

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TheKnot.com "The chicest website in cyberspace!" - Vogue TheKnot.com is the #1 online wedding destination. First-Class Fashion: The largest searchable gown gallery on the web with 20,000+ gown pictures from over 500 designers Inspiring Images: Real wedding style and ideas from actual weddings, searchable by theme, location, season, and element Local Resources: 13,000+ local florists, photographers, reception sites, and more in 50 cities Personalized Tools: Interactive checklist, budgeter, guest list manager, and wedding web page builder

Modern Advice: 1,000+ articles on all wedding-related topics, plus answers to etiquette questions 24/7 Community: Personal profiles, blogs, boards, hosted chats, and member web pages Convenient Shopping: The web's largest wedding supply retailer with 1,000+ accessories, favors, books, attendant gifts, and more Lifestyle Registry: The Knot and Macy’s connect couples to gifts that suit their everyday lives The Knot TV: 24/7 streaming original programming featuring bridal fashion shows, makeovers, honeymoon specials, real wedding videos, and inspiration from celebrity wedding planners and wedding TV personality Carley Roney (more than 1.5 million streams/month)

The Knot Magazines
The Knot magazine helps couples find the things they seek the most:

• Revolutionary Format: Alphabetized, searchable directories of gowns, bridesmaid dresses, tuxedos, jewelry, home products, and honeymoons
• Inspiring Ideas: Fresh, stylish photo spreads cover every major wedding element, from the aisle to the reception
• Modern Advice: Solutions to wedding planning etiquette in a trademark fresh voice with realistic sensibility
• Interactive: Works in tandem with TheKnot.com to lead brides back to the product gallery on the website's various search tools
• Available: Published semiannually and available in bookstores, on
  newsstands, and online for $9.99

The Knot Inc. is the #1 publisher of local wedding magazines in the country:

• 25 US City Editions: Designed to help brides and grooms plan their weddings in their hometowns (even if they live in other cities)
• Smart, Savvy, Local Advice: Fresh voice and realistic sensibility of The Knot and top local experts
• Real Weddings: Inspiring hometown weddings and the ingredients that make them special
• Venues & Pros: Local reception site comparison guide, plus 1,000+ wedding pros and listings
• Interactive: References TheKnot.com City-by-City Guides where brides can tour sites, browse portfolios, research pros, and email vendors
• Available: Published semiannually and available for $4.99 on
  newsstands, online, and in major bookstores nationwide

The Knot Best of Weddings is a coast-to-coast guide to the country's top florists, venues, photographers, cakes, and everything in between as rated by real brides. Introduced in 2007, the annual issue provides a by-brides, for-brides guide to the top vendors in over 40 key US cities. Based on a groundbreaking nationwide survey of 25,000 recent brides and grooms (administered by Harris Interactive) where newlyweds were asked to rate their vendors on multiple criteria, all reviews stem from creativity to professionalism to real experiences. The resulting ratings and detailed feedback were aggregated by the editors of The Knot to create this one-of-a-kind publication highlighting the best wedding resources in each region according to local brides.

• 1,500+ Reviews: The gown shop with the best service in Boston, New York's most professional wedding photographer, Chicago's top cakes, LA's best-rated venue, and more!
• Best Real Weddings: 100+ inspiring photos of cakes, flowers, favors, and wedding details chosen by The Knot team of style experts
• Best-of Lists: Top color combos, hot trends, brides' favorite honeymoon spots, top first dance songs, and more
• Available: Published annually and available for $9.99 on newsstands, in major bookstores nationwide, and at http://www.theknot.com/shop.

The Knot Books
The Knot seeks out partnerships with top publishers to produce books especially for brides, grooms, and wedding guests. Each book is authored by Carley Roney who, with her unique real-world sensibility, provides all the need-to-know details in a fresh, down-to-earth voice. With true tales, insider advice, checklists, and in-depth sections on updated wedding etiquette, sneaky cost-trimming tricks, and coping with stressful family situations, these best-selling guides by The Knot take engaged couples step-by-step through the wedding-planning process, helping them make all of their critical decisions from the proposal to the honeymoon.

To see the whole collection, click here.

The Knot TV
The Knot recently teamed up with the Style Network for original specials, including My Celebrity Wedding With The Knot and My Destination Wedding With The Knot. Editor in chief Carley Roney guides two couples through the planning process of pulling off a wedding that reflects their unique sense of style, personalities, family, and budgets while providing key wedding style and etiquette tips to viewers.

Watch a promo for My Destination Wedding With The Knot on Style!

The Knot TV is the first-ever 24/7 streaming wedding television channel. The Knot team of style experts and guest contributors host wedding-themed programming including:

• Bridal Fashion Runway Shows: Front-row fashion week footage from shows by Oscar De La Renta, Vera Wang, Monique Lhuillier, Reem Acra, Amsale, and more!
• Wedding Makeovers: How real girls get styled for the wedding day by the industry’s top experts
• Real Wedding Videos:  Favorite Knottie nuptials, from destination weddings to sunset ceremonies
• Honeymoon Specials: Get a whirlwind tour of the world’s most romantic destinations, plus tips for booking and traveling
• Registry How-Tos: What to put on your list from resident home experts from The Knot
• Hot Favors & Attendant Gifts: How to say thank you to your bridal party and wedding guests

SHOPPING                                                                                                      
The Knot Wedding Supply Shop
The largest retailer of wedding supplies on the Internet, The Knot Wedding Shop is stocked with over 1,000 hard-to-find wedding supplies at the best prices around. The Knot Wedding Shop offers brides 24-hour accessibility and quick turnaround delivery for all those last-minute orders before the big day. From our wedding planning workbooks and gift books to personalized wedding collections of ring pillows, flower girl baskets, pen & holder sets, and guest books, The Knot has designed and produced a series of products across the wedding category.

Carley Roney
Cofounder and Editor In Chief, The Knot Inc.
Motivated by the excruciating process of planning her own wedding, Carley Roney made it her mission to find a fun, hip, user-generated resource for couples planning their weddings. The wedding world was in dire need for a new voice, and the web was the perfect place to break ground. In 1996, Roney founded TheKnot.com with her husband (CEO of The Knot Inc., David Liu) and two other business partners.

The Knot has since transformed the wedding landscape as the leading wedding resource and most-trafficked online wedding destination with over 3.4 million unique visitors a month and more than 125 million monthly page views.

As the country's best modern wedding and lifestyle expert, Roney frequently offers inspiring and sensible advice on television, radio, Internet, and print outlets nationwide. Roney helped to develop NBC’s TODAY show's groundbreaking interactive wedding planning series “Today Ties The Knotâ€� and has been featured as the series’ key expert year after year. She has also appeared on top television shows and channels, including Oprah, ABC’s The View, LIVE! With Regis & Kelly, CBS' The Early Show, E!, CNN, Inside Edition, and The FOX News Report, and has been featured in InStyle, Vogue, Elle, Glamour, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today. She's a seasoned speaker who's invited to headline many bridal and lifestyle industry events across the country.

At The Knot New York headquarters, Roney is responsible for overseeing all content development -- both online and in print. She was responsible for leveraging brand awareness into The Knot offline products, including 17 local wedding magazines, The Knot national newsstand magazine, and popular television shows on the Style and Oxygen Networks.

Roney has authored 10 books in partnership with publishers Random House, Chronicle Books, and Clarkson Potter, including the recently released The Knot Book of Lists (2008). She has spearheaded the editorial development of a video-on-demand service with Comcast Cable and the launch of The Knot TV -- a nonstop streaming video channel on TheKnot.com. Roney also oversees the content and creative development of the company’s expanded portfolio of lifestage brands, including The Nest for newlyweds and The Bump for first-time parents.

When not working or playing with her three children, Roney most enjoys planning dinner parties for family and friends in her chic and modern Brooklyn loft. She is a native of Rhode Island and currently works with her partners in SoHo, New York.

Rebecca Dolgin
Executive Editor of Print & Online, The Knot
Rebecca Dolgin is Vice President and Executive Editor for The Knot Inc. Dolgin’s extensive experience across lifestages enhances her qualifications for her new role, overseeing the websites, magazines, books, content syndication, and brand extensions for The Knot, The Nest, and The Bump.

Prior to joining The Knot, Dolgin was Executive Editor of Life & Style, where she was responsible for repositioning the magazine to incorporate service and bringing a lifestyle component to news stories. Previously, she was Beauty and Fashion Director at All You magazine, and Senior Editor at MORE magazine and Parenting Magazine.

Heather Levine
Fashion Editor, The Knot
As the fashion editor at The Knot, Heather Levine is responsible for everything and anything to do with style, from accessories to bridal fashion to couture jewelry for The Knot magazines as well as TheKnot.com. She also produces and styles photo-driven features for The Knot magazine and many of the fashion segments on The Knot TV, the site’s 24/7 streaming video channel. 

Levine also serves as in-house stylist at The Knot, with responsibilities that include styling Editor in Chief Carley Roney for TV segments and personal appearances. Levine frequently appears on The Knot TV as well as on E! News, CBS' The Early Show, and local segments such as CW11. Always on top of the latest trends, Levine created her own handmade jewelry company and sells her custom jewelry on a made-to-order basis. 

Anja Winikka
Editor, TheKnot.com
Anja Winikka combines her writing and editing skills with her wedding expertise to bring the most of-the-moment wedding trends to millions of engaged couples across the country. Winikka immersed herself in the wedding industry while in college, when she took a job as a wedding coordinator at a local reception space, helping to make hundreds of couples’ wedding days perfect.

In addition to writing and editing wedding articles of all kinds for the website and magazines, Winikka loves the challenge of finding a variety of the most stunning Real Weddings from every corner of the US to feature in the magazines. In addition, Anja is the editor of a number of niche websites, including ChineseWeddingsbyTheKnot.com, GayWeddingsbyTheKnot.com, the soon-to-be IndianWeddingsbyTheKnot.com, as well as BridesDecide.com, a political election website for brides and newlyweds.

Winikka has been a popular source for her expertise on destination bachelor and bachelorette parties, honeymoons, and bridesmaid etiquette in national McClatchy-Tribune newspapers and is has also appeared on NBC's Weekend TODAY, CNN, FOX News, and segments across the country. 

THE KNOT UNVEILS THE MOST CREATIVE WEDDING TRENDS FOR 2008

Split-Personality Brides
Brides are doing a double-take during the wedding: doing presto-changeos with their gowns (sometimes up to three wardrobe changes) and sneaking away during cocktail hour for a whole new hairdo (classic updos for the ceremony, then sexy, tousled tresses on the dance floor!).

Heirloom Engagement & Wedding Rings
Jennifer Love Hewitt just got a bauble that’s been in fiance Ross McCall’s family for over 100 years. Alicia Silverstone wed Chris Jarecki wearing a ring crafted from his great-great-grandmother's ring. Passing down a time-honored piece of jewelry adds another layer of sentimentality that can't be bought in a store.

Green Weddings
Couples continue to be earth-conscious in 2008: from email invites for weddings and festivities to serving up locally grown, free-range fare and donning bio-friendly wedding gowns made of 100 percent silk and cottons. They’re also honeymooning at eco-resorts and gathering friends for charitable showers at soup kitchens and local park events.

The “Marie Antoinette� Wedding
We bet that Sofia Coppola had no idea that her fashionable blockbuster would inspire a whole new class of chic brides! Lush floral centerpieces, rich gilded colors, big gowns, brocade, and decadent receptions are fit for royalty, complete with hand-painted invitations, champagne tasting bars, seven courses, and extravagant dessert displays!

The Social Networking Wedding
From virtual proposal videos posted on YouTube to enhanced wedding web pages and Facebook-friend polling on first-dance songs and menu options, weddings have become public planning ventures. Couples are logging, using blogs as “communication central,� and, with new mobile technology, posting on-the-road photos to get immediate feedback on decisions from their wedding parties, friends, and family.

Daring Destination Weddings
The destination wedding trend will continue to evolve as new spots emerge. From taking guests on African safaris to skiing the slopes of Sundance, fly-fishing in Big Sky, Montana, and jetting off to Spanish and Scottish castles!

2007	2008
Greek Isles	Italian Coast
Cruise the Caribbean	Cruise the Nile
Five-Star Resort	Private Villa
Costa Rica	Panama
African Safari	East Asian Excursion

NEW RELEASE! THE KNOT BOOK OF WEDDING LISTS
By Carley Roney and the editors of TheKnot.com

Before "I do," there are over 500 to-dos in need of attention -- from the rehearsal dinner to the reception -- and don’t forget the postwedding brunch! With all the to-dos -- and expenses -- that go into planning a wedding, it should come as no surprise that today’s brides and grooms face big challenges and even bigger pressures to plan the perfect day. Enter The Knot Book of Wedding Lists: The Ultimate Guide to the Perfect Day, Down to the Smallest Detail (Clarkson Potter, January 8, 2008), an easy-to-carry compilation of all the timelines, tools, and checklists that have made TheKnot.com an indispensable guide for millions of brides, grooms, mothers, and maids-of-honor with:

• Timelines for every step of the process, down to the day itself
• A budget breakdown
• Questions to ask and contract points to push with professionals
• Lists of duties expected of each member of the wedding party
• Steps necessary for extra considerations, such as a calligrapher or a wedding web page
• Best flowers by color
• Gown silhouettes and the shapes that work best with each body type
• Beauty preparations, including a wedding day beauty kit, trial runs, and a day-of timeline
• Registry checklist
• Tipping guidelines for everyone from the reception manager to coatroom attendants to the limo driver
• A to-do list if for brides who’ve decided to change their name

To contact an editor at The Knot, click here.