To be sure, plantations do have value for modern society—just not as wedding venues. There are about 375 plantation museums active in the United States today, and many do not hold weddings. They ...

Pinterest and The Knot Worldwide have bowed to pressure from a civil rights group, and are changing the way they promote plantation wedding venues. Many former slave-holding plantations have ...

When a bride-to-be looks up “plantation wedding,” what she romanticizes is not “home with a racist past,” it ... the idea persists that brides and vendors who support such venues are ...

Wedding planning sites will no longer run photos of weddings at plantations — including Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively’s 2012 nuptials in South Carolina.

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 ...

Wedding planner, Rhonda Anders, thinks these venues should be recognized for their beauty, not for their past, and is worried this could hurt her business. RELATED: The Knot, Pinterest to restrict ...

Zola, another wedding planning site, said it would no longer allow former plantations to list on its site altogether. CEO Shan-Lyn Ma said the company never promoted plantation wedding venues but ...

A civil rights advocacy group reportedly urged both platforms to stop promoting content featuring former slave plantation wedding venues Style + Beauty Assistant, PEOPLE Popular wedding-planning ...

Zola, another popular wedding planning website, will no longer list plantation venues at all. According to Associated Press , Martha Stewart Weddings reached out to Color of Change this week to ...

*Four major wedding planning websites are curbing the promotion of slave plantation venues that white American women are booking for their weddings. According to the BBC, Zola has removed all the ...

The changes could impact the wedding industry in Louisiana which has at least 24 venues from the coast to Baton Rouge which refer to themselves as a "plantation." ...