The Knot Reviews

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I'm embarrassed to admit it now, but we used The Knot for our wedding more than five years ago. During that time, though I stayed away from the board entitled "Bitchy Brides" (description: These brides hold nothing back and tell it like it is), the women there frequently borrowed content from my postings on another community board and many others to make fun of the couples, degrade the photographs and would often photo-shop them into something obscene. Then they began targeting a few of us for special attention, following us from board to board, being threatening and vile. The fact that these were GROWN WOMEN was especially troubling.

The moderators either did nothing or turned a blind eye to it. The Knot itself refused to get involved and moderate their own boards until the harassment turned real. Seems someone at the board turned into quite the detective and using various clues from my postings and other information, began calling various venues in our area pretending to be someone from our bridal party--then bragged about having done so on the boards. Only when we threatened to institute legal action against the Knot (mainly for refusing to remove my information after repeated requests to do so), did they ever do a single thing about it. The main individual responsible was never banned from the boards (to my knowledge) and it took months for the harassment to die down (even though I was pretty careful, but obviously not careful enough) about putting that information out there.

The board exists to this day, although it has been renamed to "Snarky Brides." The bottom line is that the Knot supports this behavior from their users and even enables it. Stay far, far, away from it. The free planning tools and wedding websites are simply not worth it.

In summary, I would not recommend The Knot to a friend.