SOS - The Knot Sends a Gift Reminder Email?

Re: SOS - The Knot Sends a Gift Reminder Email?

• kahluakoala member

  

  January 2017

  I agree with you that there should absolutely be an option to turn this off! I also think that you shouldn't stress yourself about it too much, as 99.9% of the guests are going to realize this is an auto-email from a website and not something you are behind.

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• Ro041 member

  

  January 2017

  Ew.  I don't like that at all!

  
  

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• levioosa member

  

  January 2017

  Holy crap that is super tacky.  Should we tag one of the knot gods to show how much we hate this? 

  
  

  
  

  

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• flantastic member

  

  January 2017

  There definitely should be an option to turn that feature off, but - why does TK have your guests' emails? Even if you're going the online RSVP route, you don't need to have that info in TK's database. Just remove everyone's emails from the guest list feature of TK and keep track of that stuff in Excel or something.
  

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• Heffalump member

  

  January 2017

  That is gross, and more gross that you can't turn it off.  I don't blame you for not wanting to use their site to host your wedding webpage, and this is yet one more reason why I wouldn't recommend that anyone else use them, either.
  Sorry this happened to you.  I would die, too.

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• Ro041 member

  

  January 2017

  Who else hosts wedding websites?  I should look around before sending out our Save the Dates!

  
  

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• Knottiede38bae86837a34f member

  

  January 2017

  Thanks guys, ugh this is so frustrating! To clarify, and the reason I can't just remove emails, is that the email is triggered when guests accept the option to receive reminders about the wedding after RSVPing-- so, the guests theoretically have some say in the matter -- however, it is not at all clear that they are accepting reminders to buy us gifts, and I'm not at all sure they will connect the dots between the email saying "Don't Forget to Buy Knottie a Gift!" and the fact that at one point in the distant past they accepted the option to receive wedding reminders.
  
  All that said, yes I think most of my guests are laid back enough that this won't be the end of the world but in general the fact that we have no way to turn it off seems like such an oversight! 

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• knottiej member

  

  January 2017

  @Ro041 I am using minted.com for my wedding website.

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• SP29 member

  

  January 2017

  Ugh! Tacky TK, tacky.
  

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• downtondiva member

  

  January 2017

  Wait a minute...how does it have people's email addresses? I had my wedding website through TK and I really hope this didn't happen!

  
  

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• Ro041 member

  

  January 2017

  @downtondiva Is there a way to set the website to private where guests would have to enter their email addresses to view it?  I was wondering the same thing.
  
  @KnottieJanel - thanks!  I will check it out.

  
  

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• justsie member

  

  January 2017

  From what Knottie wrote up there it only emails them if you do online RSVP and the guest themselves selects to have wedding reminders?
  
  
  

  

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• MandyMost member

  

  January 2017

  You already have the website printed on the STDs, but this does not mean you need to use the website for RSVPs. Remove that section from the website, and do RSVPs another way. No one should be RSVPing based on a STD anyway, so no one is going to miss it from the website anyway. If a guest happens to figure out on the website someplace to "sign up for reminders about the wedding" then they'll be stuck with the email. 
  
  In short, do whatever you can to change the website so your guests are not providing any information, just reading about the logistics. 
  
  

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