Well, ProjectWedding.com was designed by women and it is steadily growing (it currently receives 10,000 page views a day from northern california bride-to-bes).
It's assumptions like yours about theknot.com's monopoly which make this "project" (pun intended) particularly enticing :)
It's assumptions like yours about theknot.com's monopoly which make this "project" (pun intended) particularly enticing :)