📣 Wedding industry professionals: Help make your voices heard. The petition calling on Congress to hold a hearing into The Knot’s business practices and its acquisition of Zola is growing. Now we need more wedding professionals to join the conversation. And the industry is on the clock. Ask the USG to stop this monopolistic move by The Knot. If you're a photographer, planner, florist, venue owner, DJ, caterer, or other wedding industry professional, here's how you can help: ✍️ SIGN THE PETITION: https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/the-knot-advertisers/ 📢 SHARE the link in wedding vendor groups, industry forums, and on your social media. Help fellow professionals learn about the petition and add their voices. 📩 CONTACT THE SENATE: Senator Chuck Grassley (Iowa): https://www.grassley.senate.gov/contact Senator Mike Lee (Utah): https://www.lee.senate.gov/contact Senator Cory Booker (New Jersey): https://www.booker.senate.gov/contact Ask their offices to review the concerns raised by wedding industry professionals and hold a hearing examining The Knot’s business practices and the competitive implications of its acquisition of Zola. You don't need to be an antitrust expert to speak up. Share your experience, explain your concerns, and let your elected representatives know why a competitive and transparent marketplace matters to your business. Please pass this along to fellow vendors. The more industry professionals who participate, the more clearly our concerns can be heard.

🚨 THE KNOT WORLDWIDE IS ACQUIRING ZOLA. THE WEDDING INDUSTRY SHOULD BE OUTRAGED. TAKE ACTION. Today, The Knot Worldwide, owned by private equity firms Permira and Spectrum Equity, announced it is acquiring Zola, its sole significant competitor. The Knot already faces serious allegations of operating an unlawful monopoly in violation of federal antitrust laws, along with fraudulent and deceptive business practices targeting American small businesses. Vendors have reported advertising rate increases of hundreds of percent. The Knot and WeddingWire merger already drove up rates on the industry drastically. Now, these private equity interests are moving to eliminate another major competitor and consolidate even greater control over the wedding industry. Can you imagine what they will do if private equity pushes through the acquisition of Zola? WE URGE EVERY WEDDING PROFESSIONAL TO ACT: Many of you have already signed the Petition calling for a Congressional hearing into the matter. Thank you! But there is more you can do. 🚨 1 FILE A COMPLAINT WITH THE FBI's IC3 - that works with the DOJ regarding cyber crime and Antitrust matters. If you believe The Knot's acquisition will harm the wedding industry, or believe you have have been harmed by The Knot's business practices, file a complaint with the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center. 👉 https://www.ic3.gov/ 🚨 2. DEMAND A CONGRESSIONAL HEARING. Sign the industry petition calling on the Senate Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee to investigate these allegations - and share the petition on your industry message boards to warn others. 👉 https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/the-knot-advertisers/ Congress and federal antitrust regulators must act before this acquisition by The Knot of Zola can close. There is still time to stop this harmful transaction. Learn more: https://theknotwhistleblowers.com/ SPEAK UP. REPORT FRAUD. SIGN THE PETITION. SHARE WITH OTHER WEDDING PROFESSIONALS

You Did It: 1,000 Signatures. Now It's Time to Push Harder. You did it. The petition calling on Congress to hold a hearing into The Knot Worldwide's business practices has passed 1,000 signatures. Thank you to every small business owner who added your name and your story to the industry-led petition. This milestone matters, and the timing couldn't be more important. Why now This week, the private-equity firms behind The Knot Worldwide, which owns The Knot, WeddingWire and WeddingPro, brought a group of vendors to Capitol Hill to present the company as a champion of small business. It's genuinely good to see vendors who have found success on the platform. But a handful of success stories doesn't reflect what thousands of vendors say they've experienced: oversaturated markets, leads they believe were fake or worthless, ads that didn't run as promised, misleading sales pitches, difficulty canceling, and collection threats over disputed bills. Lawmakers are hearing The Knot's side of the story right now. They need to hear yours just as loudly. Here's what you can do today 1. File a complaint with the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). If you believe you were defrauded or misled by The Knot or WeddingPro, please file a report at ic3.gov. It's one of the most important things you can do. https://www.ic3.gov/ 2. Share this petition. Every vendor who has had a similar experience deserves the chance to be heard. Send the petition to colleagues, post it in your professional groups and industry forums, and share it on social media: https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/the-knot-advertisers 3. Keep telling your story. Contact your U.S. senators and representative, tell them you signed this petition, and ask them to support a congressional hearing. A short, personal account of what happened to your business is more persuasive than any statistic. Link to locate your Congressional Representative : U.S. House: https://www.house.gov/representatives Link to locate your U.S. Senators : U.S. Senate: https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm The bigger picture You're not alone in raising these concerns. The Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee has investigated and pressed federal authorities, who responded that the alleged conduct may implicate violations of federal law. The company holds an F rating from the Better Business Bureau, which revoked its accreditation. Advertisers have filed a federal class-action lawsuit alleging fraud, and outlets including the New York Post, Newsweek, Forbes, The New Yorker, Business Insider and Bloomberg have reported on vendor complaints. A large corporation owned by private-equity firms has the resources to shape the conversation in Washington. What it can't do is outnumber the small businesses speaking up and change the facts. So share your facts. Every signature, every IC3 complaint and every share makes your voices harder to ignore.

Seeing 500 signatures on this page reminds me that I am not fighting for my own small business alone. We are finally building the pressure needed to show that these practices have ruined too many livelihoods.

Watching this signature count climb reminds me of the sleepless nights I spent staring at my own bank statements after The Knot drained my accounts. We are nearing a hundred signatures but we need a massive surge right now to prove that this predatory behavior is a national problem that demands a federal response.