How to sign up for a Knot.com Wedding Website

TheKnot.com. This site seems to cover a lot of aspects of wedding planning and is probably the best tool I've found. You can even shop for engagement rings, whether you're looking for or Neil Lane, Vera Wang, Kay Jewelers, or the dozens of other brands showcased on the site. But, probably my favorite feature of the site is that it is great for building a wedding website, and I've known dozens of people who have built their websites here. So today I am going to go through the steps of showing you how easy it is to build a Knot.com website!

Building a Wedding Website on TheKnot.com

1. After clicking this link, you'll be redirected to a page where you can choose from 100 designs for your wedding page. You can click to see a preview of any of them without logging in or having an account. You might as well look at the pages before signing up in case you decide to go with another site.

2. Once you know you're going to open a Knot.com site, you can sign up here. They will ask you for your name, email, your role in the wedding (such as bride), fiance's name, wedding date, address, and wedding location. (For the wedding date, the site lets you put up a wedding date as late as 2018 - so if you're planning a wedding in 4 years and 11 months from now, you're in luck!) You can also select colors and styles you're leaning towards (traditional, outdoor, DIY, etc), though you can also change this information later. After creating a username and password, the form is complete!

3. Now you can choose your website url from a few selections where they combine you and your fiance's last names (such as theknot.com/wedding/Carmichael-and-Davis). I did find that typing in the text they've given to prove you're not a spam robot was a little difficult (I couldn't quite read it the first two tries), but I guess that's not a bad thing. I was immediately taken to a web page editor after this, but I had to do something else at the time, so when I came back I just signed directly into TheKnot.com again.

4. This does not directly pertain to your wedding website, but if you're doing anything else on TheKnot involving planning, you might want to change your settings to private. I first went to my Settings (click on your name in the top right hand corner and you can get a drop-down menu with Settings) and I changed all Settings from Public to Private (there are boxes that you can check). Then I saved my settings.

5. To get back to your website, click My Knot (currently on the far left side of the homepage) and choose  My Website from the drop-down menu. It will redirect you to your web editor, where you can fill in the wedding information about you and your fiance, the proposal, ceremony, reception, wedding party, your registries, guest information, photo album, RSVP, honeymoon, map of events, and two bonus pages for extra information.

6. If you want to make your wedding page private, you can password-protect it so that the general public will only be able to view the home page of your site. On the left sidebar, underneath My Website, there will be an option called Password-Protect. Once you're on the Password-Protect page, just set up the guest password! You also have the option to set up a password hint if you choose.