Pinterest, the Knot and other wedding sites are changing the way they feature wedding venues that romanticize former slave plantations
In response to urging by a civil rights advocacy group, Pinterest and The Knot Worldwide, which owns prominent wedding platforms WeddingWire and the Knot, recently announced they were changing the way they feature wedding venues that romanticize former slave plantations.
Now, when users search for plantation wedding content, they will see a message about the company's policies.All of the companies making the change said they had or are planning to have conversations with, a civil rights advocacy group that has appealed to several wedding industry tastemakers to reconsider their promotion of the plantation aesthetic.
The Knot Worldwide has confirmed it will create new company guidelines to address the issue on its site but is still working on finalizing these new policies. The company told CNN it aims to roll out these new guidelines soon. While it's pretty significant to see so many industry leaders pursuing this policy change in such a short period, the problems with plantation weddings have long been a topic of contention.
The letter was sent to Pinterest, Martha Stuart Weddings, Zola, Brides.com, The Knot, and WeddingWire.As media coverage of the companies' policy changes has grown, Color of Change confirmed that Zola and Brides have also contacted them.Hulton Archive/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
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