The ability to add custom CSS to our website. I paid extra for the custom domain, but still can't add custom CSS or graphics. Most of your themes are not very professional at all and not a single one of them reflects the elegance or design people look for in a wedding design. (Sorry to be harsh) But at the very least, allowing custom css and graphics would be a MASSIVE improvement. Just adding photos to any of the designs you offer is still very messy and unprofessional at best. I emailed weeks ago asking if I could submit some new designs to your collection and no one ever responded to me. I'm very embarrassed to have anyone view our website with the designs you have to choose from. I could have at least 20 new elegant designs people would LOVE available to give you with full copyright to the Knot, if you would just allow me to. I would be willing to offer you 50 with the Knot owning full copyright. Just PLEASE allow me to give you better designs or at the very least, allow us to use our own custom html, css & graphics. These themes are very immature and child-like and very, very embarrassing. The website features you offer are helpful, but minimal at best, but the designs leave a LOT to be desired. We can't even change the fonts or font sizes. This is not good for anyone with standards. Reading through past recommendations, it looks like you've had MANY other people complain about this. PLEASE take me up on my offer. I am very, VERY happy to design new themes for The Knot and provide you with full ownership and copyright. I don't need any credit or payment. I just want to help. I just wish your website themes were as amazing as your wedding planner books are.

https://www.theknot.com/content/wedding-videography-contract-checklist

I’ve been wondering why so many of my clients are asking for RAW footage from my wedding video business. Finally one of them pointed me to this article. I’ve talked with several people in the wedding videography/photography business and no one I’ve talked to gives RAW’s as a part of the package. If the client does want them (which we feel violates our artistic vision that we were hired to have) then we would charge and exorbitant price. I’d suggest removing that portion from your checklist as it seems to be causing issues between the videographer and the client.

Another point that needs to be updated is the music. Licensing music is expensive. Usually the creative will have a subscription that allows them to license music for a wedding. But this isn’t mainstream music - it’s royalty free music. Having the bride and groom give a list of songs they want in the wedding video is actually asking they pay a lot of money or have very limited places the bride and groom can share that video. Not ideal.

I saw this list when I was getting married and didn’t think twice about it, but now that I work in the wedding photography/videography industry, some of these points are just a little silly. I’d make sure that anytime you’re building a checklist like this, you first run it by a few professionals in the biz, as I’m sure that this was either written or approved by just one person in the biz that may not be too sure what they’re talking about.

Thank you!

Copper Stallion Media is a videography company that was hired by Justin Montney and Alexis-Athena Wyatt for their wedding. Due to his fiance’s death, Justin Montney has requested that Copper Stallion Media refund to him the money that he paid Copper Stallion Media as a deposit for services for their wedding ceremony. It recently became known to us that the Copper Stallion Media account on The Knot and WeddingWire was created under a false identity. This violates our Terms of Use. As soon as we became aware, we took immediate action and removed Copper Stallion Media from our marketplaces on The Knot and WeddingWire. We have been following the tragic story involving Justin Montney and Alexis-Athena Wyatt, and the correspondence between Justin and Copper Stallion Media. We expect all couples to be treated with respect. Not only has Copper Stallion Media violated our Terms of Use for creating an account under a false identity, but its alleged actions with respect to Justin Montney and Alexis-Athena Wyatt are in direct violation of our Terms of Use.

We are conducting a thorough investigation across our sites to determine if there are any other businesses that have been created under false identities by individuals associated with Copper Stallion Media and will take quick action to remove any listings that are found.