Is The Knot SCAMMING People? WATCH and YOU DECIDE 👀
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I got so frustrated researching vendors on wedding wire, the knot and Zola. I'm in rural Ohio and was getting recommendations for vendors in NY and more that are far out of my 4-5k total budget.
Same girl! I did better with google! And word of mouth is what won me my venue, DJ, make up artist and I found my photographer in a local Facebook photography group!!
@@erinkika1901 yep and Facebook groups
This is what I keep running into now! It’s not only frustrating, but it’s kind of discouraging.
This is what I keep running into now! It’s not only frustrating, but it’s kind of discouraging.
Felt that. My fiancé and I are from Miamisburg and the knot was absolutely terrible. I ended up doing my own searches on google and got better stuff. I also used Thumbtack for photography.
I am a wedding photographer and I intentionally stay away from the Knot. No, thank you.
When I worked at a bridal shop we would have to each get 5 positive reviews every 6 months from family, friends or emails we created. This would cancel out the negative reviews and automatically get us "best of The Knot" award. Sketchy to say the least.
I tried to use the knot 2x and had so many issues. They consistently gave me listings of venues and vendors that were not in my area or in my budget. I was already done and now I’m here for the tea lol
As a business owner, I got scammed by the knot. It's a long story but never be a vendor.
I’m so glad you made this video. As a bride myself, the knot was super frustrating. I would be recommended vendors who were thousands over my budget even though I put a very specific budget range on my profile. It was very evident the knot pushes the vendors with the highest capital who are giving the knot the most money. Now, as a wedding planner and coordinator, I will be staying far, far, away from the knot.
GAAP (pronounced as gap) is Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. There's specific rules and standards we're taught as accountants for reporting, especially when it comes to publicly traded companies, which The Knot Worldwide is. If they're screwing with their financial statements in an unacceptable way, it opens them up to investigation from the SEC and potential penalties and lawsuits.
Also, if you're ever buying something, whether it's advertising on a site like The Knot or even just like going down to buy a mattress, and they're doing high pressure sales where you're not allowed any time to think, you HAVE to make the decision right then...walk away.
I've long thought (after being burned a few times, thankfully for relatively small sums of money) that if a business has to pressure you to sign up or buy something without time to think or research, it's because if you do think about anything they said it won't hold up to analysis, and if you research you'll find out that they're exaggerating or outright lying. So if someone tries to pressure me into buying or signing up on the spot then it's not only an immediate no, but I now have a dim view of that business as a whole and almost certainly won't come back later anyway, even if time to think or research supports the sales pitch (though I probably won't bother wasting time figuring that out anyway). I'll tell other people my opinion of the business/product too, to warn them of the shady tactics.
Wow, just got engaged and looking at every and any online wedding site. Thank you for covering this!
Congratulations! I just got married in October and we used Joy for our free website, email invitations, RSVP tracking, etc. after I saw a friend use it for their elopement - it worked well for our small wedding and seemed pretty intuitive. Best of luck with your planning and marriage!
If this is what they are doing to the vendors I have to wonder how trustworthy of their info is for the couples trying to plan their wedding.
Sounds like false advertising to vendors going to the knot.
As a bride, I started on Wedding Wire and the knot. I tried getting leads, but some didn't respond and others were far or well out of the budget I had set. The main problem I had was that no one had available pricing and it was super hard to get pricing from the vendor. I never got a vendor from the knot because it was that bad. I also ignored all from wedding wire and zola after a couple of months. All of my booked vendors have been recommended by friends, family or the local wedding facebook pages.
Every time something is offered for free, I try to identify how the company is making their money. It makes sense that vendors are having to pay, but it sounds like they are charging exorbitant funds with no return.
I’ve never gone to The Knot as I’m not engaged yet, but any time you’ve mentioned the website in the past I just got a bad feeling. I guess this is why. Yikes.
Yes this 🙌🙌🙌 I was so mad when I asked for a free listing and they said it would be $500 per month! Like! I can’t possibly offset that in a way that makes actual sense for business
I tried using the knot, but it seemed like their pickings were slim. I kept getting the same type of venues with no versatility. I live in Chicago. I KNOW there's more than 50 venues here....
I did try to sign up with them as a vendor but received the exact same “don’t hang up!” statement. Thank god my father raised me to hate that type of pressure. I will definitely sign up for the Jaime lead gen info!
I have unfortunately heard nothing but bad stories from dozens of photographers in Facebook groups. I do think the accusations are true.
THIS! Every photography facebook group i'm in has so many stories like this - the high pressure calls (i've personally experienced those) and the spam/bot leads. And this is over YEARS, not one isolated time frame.
Have to admit ever since my friends wedding a few years ago I have been quietly questioning how the heck does the knot pay for all of the "free" resources (i say "free" because somewhere somebody is always footing the cost somehow) and now i have an answer. Sharing this with all my other friends that are starting this same journey of wedding planning
this was so freeing to hear someone else validate my experience. YES this was what I went through. I did book weddings with them, but the ROI was insanely low.
With gigsalad, I had 3-4 bookings a month paying $40 a month.
With weddingwire, I booked 6 weddings after a full year of paying $300 a month. So I had to pay $600 for every wedding I booked which is just an unbelievable cut and made it not even worth doing.
I quit wedding wire and feel light as a feather now.
Ahh this makes me sad. The knot was a god send to me. I planned my whole wedding on the knot. Every vendor I found was amazing.
What I did was find one vendor like a photographer, especially who is active on social media and posting their work because they almost always tag the other vendors, either in the caption or on the photo itself. So I did a little bit of a treasure hunt to see who was being tagged in my area and what their cost was.
Wow, bold Jaime. I’m so proud to be a follower of you!
I used the knot thinking this was the best. All of that time there just to still want the one venue I always saw as a teen! Thankful for your resources and I will ensure to use the master plan 🙏🏾
Sounds like a potential UDAAP class action or enforcement action.
Many ad platforms claim positive results but add a disclaimer that they can't guarantee results for you as an individual. It's totally legal if you pay for a service and don't get the leads you wanted - as long as the company provides the core services which could *hopefully* give you leads. But the platform has to be able to back up their claims with prior client aggregate data and avoid making false promises that the services will 100% give you leads. That's just not a realistic promise to make. And they certainly can't fake imposter leads!
Contract law is complicated because yes, the party signing it and paying for the service needs to do due diligence. But if a contract is signed under false pretenses, it's not enforceable. The question is whether the promises made would cross the threshold into the strict legal definition of false advertising. Which, uh, is much more vague than an actual clear definition. Sales tactics that cause time-based pressure aren't illegal on their own, but it's complicated. There's plenty of case law that would probably come into play to help define whether this is fraud.
Not a a chance in hell will I use them. Four times Ive run into them with events and every single time they are screwing people hard
I would love to hear more! This is definitely garbage for vendors and doesn't help clients find quality vendors.... I found most my vendors through word of mouth and my venue!
I would also love to hear more about their comments. I've heard that many negative comments are deleted?
Thank you for making this video! just stumbled across your channel yesterday and have been enjoying your content so much. I'm so glad I came across this video, because I was trying to use The Knot to research wedding stuff and now I know not to give them my time and just to contact vendors through their own sites!
Hey Jamie, it is me Deema. I signed up for the Wedding Pro like we discussed before as a wedding planner and it has been nothing but fake profiles. I am tired of it. I am paying money to not get any clients. I am easy to work with. I have received so many fake inquiries.
Planning my Disney wedding, just got engaged. Clicked your account because I have been watching for years for fun and am finally needing it! Glad I found this. Need a wedding website and I am so glad I caught this video!!!
Thank you Jaime for standing up and speaking out. My heart goes out to anyone who has gotten scammed and taken advantage of. The Knot will get payback for their bad actions!
This is such a helpful TH-cam video. We are new brides (June 2025) and are trying to find our vendors.
Found a wedding planner via Wedding Wire (great experience) but will look elsewhere for all other vendors including venue. Will also use anything but the Knot for our wedding website.
Thank you for sharing & shedding some light on the industry! Also - LOVE your channel! It’s been so helpful to put on these videos as we take steps toward planning our wedding!
As a bride do you have any suggestions for wedding websites that aren’t the knot. I don’t want to support their business practices. But everyone I’ve known has used the knot.
I'm getting married August this summer and I've been using withJoy, so far they have been so user friendly and a breeze to work with. It's not as "complex" as some of these other sites but that's what drew me to withJoy. They don't offer the search wedding engines or the 'pay through the site' type features some other sites have but made it not as scam feeling ...
The knot is still great website to use for a main page with photos, stories, vendor info, rsvps, but I'm sure there are a few to choose from by now
Hi! I just stopped using the knot because of other reasons. I'm now using WithJoy for my wedding website!
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Did NOT realize this, but thank you so much for sharing!!
fun fact a vender can change their business name on the knot which can evade or mislead consumers into thinking that the vendor has not participated in any dubious business practices. My first photographer scammed me and numerous other brides but I had no clue because she kept changing her name of her businesses and deleting negative reviews.
I was on Wedding Wire/ The Knot years ago as a DJ. They'd send me leads from states over 1000 miles away from my area. I would get leads that were scammers and one went as far as sending me a large check for a wedding that of course, I didn't cash. In a few years, I got only a handful of true leads. Definitely not worth the money.
Ty for this video. I use the knot too for planning but all the vendors referred to me are out of my area and out of price point.
Love you jammmiieeee💗💗
On the other hand from the perspective of the couple the Knot provides software for basics such as your guest list.
I do agree that it is very difficult to find venues especially since prices are not provided.
😮wow !
Thank goodness I haven't been using the knot for vendors but I hope the knot gets repercussions for this and the victims get compensated. I just used it to get started wedding planning and was going to look for vendors on my own. The knot is such a great resource and consumers should be able to trust the knot to hook them up with good, hardworking vendors and small businesses.
What a joke! The Knot is prime to be taken over! Who is in charge? I left messages for over two months, only to find my Acct Exec doesn’t work for them…Albeit, her voice mail is still active. The only rep I spoke with told me she wasn’t an employee, only after I asked. This rep didn’t even have my “new” acct executive, only an email. I wrote him on April 9, no response for almost a month! ugh.
Wow, I'm so glad that my business was removed from the Knot. I had a grandfathered in free account (from before they merged) which was closed for reasons that I still can't confirm after repeatedly refusing to upgrade to a paid account. Prior to getting booted (2 years under my supervision) we got maybe 1 or 2 bookings.
I can’t wait for my contract to be up. The Knot has costed us so much money and the leads are bogus. So frustrating and biggest waste of money we’ve ever spent.
Carrots & Cake is where it's at!
I actually feel like you can't trust reviews on the knot either. It feels bad reviews are removed even if they're honest? I visited a venue that had some red flags, but had 5 out of 5 stars. Listened to my gut and didn't book. I now see bad reviews for them on Facebook in a local group all the time, and yet still holding strong 5 out of 5 stars on the knot!
I had to email them about cashing out my wedding monetary gift.
Im a florist and so far i havent had an issue, i pay $269 monthly and each month i make that back.
So when I was in OC - The Knot SUCKED. It worked out that I was paying $300 for reach booking so that ROI was not it...but since I've moved to a smaller area, 80% of my bookings are coming from Wedding Pro platform. Do I suspect that I get fake leads when things go quiet - yes and HELL yes for the OC market. Do I think a lot of it also has to do with market size and how many people are competing in your category - yes. Are they also difficult to work with and salesy - yeup!!! So take what you will from that.
I recently tried out the knot as a new bride and was pretty shocked that almost ALL of the venders the recommended were permanently closed 🤨 just hasn’t been a five star experience and this video doesn’t surprise me
one reason for this is that if you ask for account deletion, they will refuse to delete your profile unless you can prove that you're permanently closed (even if you don't even offer wedding services anymore). And then you have to submit all this proof that you're permanently closed. It's wild. And as you've seen, it makes for a poor bride experience too!
Can you make a video about the best apps to use for my wedding in your opinion?
It's not a great place for vendors either. They send out fake leads so that you will keep your membership with them.. but the people never actually book.
I also want to point out an amazing inn and venue next to me that is not on the knot but absolutely stunning with amazing reviews. It is located in Southern Illinois just 3 or less hours from st. Louis, MO & Memphis, TN & Nashville, TN & Evansville, IN & an hour from Paducah, KY. Illinois bottom comes to a point so it's perfect for couples in other states a good distance. Please look at them if you are looking for a good wedding. I know they are my top pick and very affordable. Labrador Lake House Inn and Wedding Venue is the name. Its in Murphysboro, IL. I wanted to be a wedding planner when I was 20 and I decided to get a degree in hospitality, tourism, and event management. But I still have the instincts of a wedding planner so that's just my advice as well but this is a very wonderful TH-camr that I have watched for years. I suggest people check this venue out too.
I love your videos and if I lived in TX are close I would go to you but I'm all good with your checklist and watching every video.
I just wanted to mention that you don't need a website or an app to just look around and really explore the area that you're in because it's not right for these companies to be scamming people and you can find something perfect for you just by doing enough research and following people like this lovely woman
I did not like using the knot or wedding wire. They would send me to venues and vendors that were out of my price range.
Just canceled my subscription! Boom! Seriously, I get so many spammy “leads”. Very frustrating! I’ve gotten leads from people supposedly getting married the following week. 🤦🏽♀️ You have to jump through hoops to get reviews; just not willing to do it anymore. 😊
3:25 as an Accountant, it's hilarious hearing someone spell out GAAP and then follow it with Yada yada yada 😂
That's exactly how accounting feels like, yada yada yada
What about Zola is Zola good ?
our booking have been down ... is it just us ? In Ga all our business comes from Social Media... now thinking of someone like the Knot?
WOW i guess I should have listened to this entire message first...
What is the opinion on Zola?
I’m also curious about this. I was surprised Jamie didn’t mention Zola. My daughter is using Zola for her wedding website including her registry and rsvp. Would hate to think we’re supporting a disreputable company.
Ahem…. The knot… okay sure. Every review u read on YELP is paid for.
And- who really scamming people are these companies that charge 400% more than any other vendor I’ve ever worked with… for weddings. Planers taking a backend on every vendor, and just the sheer amount of unregulated business practices.
Hello, please help me. I’m Scared to death. I just signed up with wedding pro. Just got a weird lead from someone who is not even in my state. I didn’t even complete my storefront/ Profile and I got a strange lead. What did I get myself into. Please help me. I’m a photobooth owner and I thought this company would be great to provide my service. I’m sick to my stomach….help…. Getting leads from out of my geographical area….
Did you cancel with them?