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Anja Winikka

I'm getting married this spring in Tucson, Arizona. Having worked at TheKnot.com for seven years, I couldn't be more prepared (or overly-prepared!) to plan my wedding. Follow my wedding planning here!

Engagement Photos In An Antique Store!

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Ben and I are thrift store people. Always have been. Our apartment is full of flea market finds, reclaimed wood furniture and lots of little artifacts we've found throughout the years together. In fact I found that shirt I'm wearing in the photos below at a thrift store in Tucson, Arizona. So when our photographer... read more

My Airstream Engagement Photos!

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I'm a huge fan of fashion photography-inspired engagement photo shoots. So when it came to finding inspiration for my own, I found it within the pages of a Jon Hamm and Rebecca Hall W Magazine photo shoot. Moody, sexy and real all rolled up into one -- total engagement photo shoot material.... read more

3 Sparkly Garland Ideas + How To Make Your Own!

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Sparkle and sequins is so 2013! An easy way to add a little shimmer to your wedding day is with sparkly gold and silver garland. You could deck out your photo booth, string them along your ceremony aisle chairs, or hang them over the dance floor. Bonus: This is one of those wedding decor... read more

Announcing Capsule! A New Reason To Hashtag Your Wedding

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Want any easy way to capture every photo taken at your wedding? Well, we just partnered with the photo sharing website and app, Capsule, so that you can now collect every photo taken by your guests into one photo album on your wedding website. Genius, right? All you have to do is start a Capsule... read more

5 (KU!) Wedding Ideas for Jason Sudeikis and Olivia Wilde

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Full disclosure: I'm a Kansas basketball fanatic. So when I heard that Jason Sudeikis and Olivia Wilde were engaged, I got really friggin excited. Jason Sudeikis is also a huge Kansas basketball fan. Apparently he's also converted his fiance because the two are spotted at games all the time. (Let's be honest: A Kansas... read more

NEW! The Knot Wedding Planner & Organizer Binder

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After having working at The Knot for seven years, I can honestly tell you that our brand-new planning binder and organizer is one of the best wedding planning resources out there. No seriously! A small group of us worked on the binder to write, design and lay out all the pages over the last... read more

My “Will You Be My Bridesmaid” Video Proposal!

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I knew who I would ask to be in my bridal party well before we got engaged. I also knew that I wanted to do something different and creative when I went to ask them. After having already created a video tied to our engagement, I decided to put together a cheesy photo montage video full... read more

Kat Von D’s Black Engagement Ring

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Kat Von D got engaged (on the Twitter) over the holidays to her man Deadmau5. The ring: A custom-designed black diamond engagement ring. What could be more appropriate for the goth, tattoo artist TV personality? Deadmau5 tweeted a photo of the work in progress... And then this little stunner hit the tabloids today...... read more

Kate Winslet Is Married (And Leonardo DiCaprio Gave Her Away)!

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The list of A-listers with secret wedding ceremonies continues to grow. People.com is reporting that Kate Winslet has been a married woman since earlier this month. Winslet reportedly married the nephew of Richard Branson, Ned Rocknroll (yes, that's really his name) in a small private New York ceremony attended by just a few close friends,... read more

Janet Jackson Is Engaged!

Here's one more celebrity engagement for the 2012 list! US Weekly is reporting that Janet Jackson is engaged to her boyfriend of two years -- billionaire, Wassam Al Mana. The two are reportedly planning a wedding in Qatar for the springtime and Wassam plans to pull out all the stops. An insider told US Weekly... read more
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