Leave a Review The Knot Wedding Planner
Great site for personal planning
I started using The Knot as a paperless way to do three things. 1. Track my progress while planning for our wedding. 2. Keep my guests informed about the wedding weekend events and details. and 3. Send my guests save the dates and invites. The Knot is great for the first two but I was very disappointed to learn that they don’t have a feature for the third. You can’t send emails to guests from the website, it takes copying and pasting into your own email or another option like paperless post which is an inconvenient addition step.
Positively, The Knot offers a variety of templates for your wedding website and walks you though all the details you may not have thought about and what dates you should be finishing each step. We’ve found it really helpful so far especially with informing guests of hotel accommodations and fun things to do in the city while they’re in town. The Knot allows guests to rsvp to separate events too! Our wedding is on a Saturday and we’re having a casual bonfire on Friday night. Guests are able to rsvp for one or both.
In general a helpful wedding planning tool.Show lessFun Zone Gurl
Convenient features but they never work
The app offers a lot of convenient features however they’re only convenient if they actually work. The app & desktop site are soooo glitchy & there’s a new part of the app/site that’s down literally every day. One a couple weeks ago, my entire guest list disappeared for a whole day on the day I planned to address my Save the Dates. Then there was the problem with the photos tab freezing every time I tried to upload our pictures. Then there was the formatting issues with the “Our Story” section where no matter how many times I went on my desktop & manually added spaces between paragraphs, it still just showed up as one big block of writing. Now it’s the registry tab not syncing my registries & putting all my gifts into one place on the site like it’s supposed to. Not to mention, it isn’t completely user friendly especially if you have older guests trying to use it (i.e. older parents, grandparents & such). There’s a lot of things that your guests can completely miss if they don’t know to actually click or scroll all the way down to the very bottom. All in all, definitely A+ for some good ideas but an almost complete fail in execution. Wish I could give a better review.Show lessHappyChefUser123456789
Wish it was customizable
I don’t know if the problem is that I am using the phone app rather than the full website or if there is some sort of paid upgrade that would resolve these issues, or maybe this app just isn’t ideal for those on a modest budget. For one thing, we know our wedding colors, but on the app, it seems that we can only identify a general color scheme. Second, we have almost all our vendors selected, but I couldn’t enter them in the app unless they popped up in the search options. (We are planning a small wedding, so some of our vendors are friends or small local businesses that don’t appear in the search options.) Finally, the vision/inspiration boards seem difficult and not very helpful. I was just hoping to keep all my vendors’ contact info in one place and maybe put together some inspiration pictures of my choosing based on my colors. Perhaps the problem is just user error; maybe these features exist and I just haven’t figured out how to use them. That still seems like a problem to me, though. I think I’m going to delete this one in the meantime.Show lessPatience2012
Great, just wish it had sharing capability
I’ve been very happy with the setup of the knot including the helpful tips you can opt to get via emails or notifications. However, the one thing that bothers me is that it’s hard for my fiancé to keep up with what’s going on. He can access the knot via my password and look on a desktop computer. But in order for him to have the same app setup he would have to download the app and use my same login info. My fiancé gets frustrated not knowing what he can do to help or what still has left to get done. I wish there was a feature that let you have two users, and then each person gets notified of things to do. Additionally, it would be super sweet if you could share notifications of when things were done or who did them, but that might be too advanced. Just wish it was easier for him to stay as connected as I am on my phone, so that I didn’t have to feel overbearing by writing him to-do lists all the time.Show lessSoon to be a Pickup
