Orbitz Helps Wedding Guests ‘Save the Date’ and Plan Travel With New Tool on TheKnot.com

New Travel Tools on TheKnot.com Link Directly to Orbitz for Fast and Easy Booking

NEW YORK and CHICAGO, May 2 /PRNewswire/ — Orbitz, the faster, easier way to find the trip you want, announced today that it has signed on with The Knot (Nasdaq: KNOT; http://www.theknot.com/), the Web’s most trafficked wedding planning destination, to make wedding-related travel easier for couples and their guests.

As part of the interactive wedding planning experience on TheKnot.com, more than a million members can now send wedding guests a personalized electronic “Orbitz Save The Date” card with everything they need to know to about the celebration, including date, location, information on accommodations and a link to book travel on Orbitz.com.

“Planning a wedding is hard enough without having to worry about how your guests will get to the big event,” said Carley Roney, editor in chief of The Knot. “Sending save-the-dates at least 6 months prior to the wedding has become a standard step in the planning process, especially with the increase in destination weddings. We’re excited that Orbitz has come on board with us to provide couples with a new tool designed to get friends and family to your wedding location with the convenience of the Web.”

Couples can find the Orbitz Save The Date tool in the “My Knot” Channel on TheKnot.com. Once on the “Orbitz Save The Date” page, the couple simply enters the wedding date, location and suggested travel and accommodations, including the airport they wish their guests to fly into, the hotel where they recommend guests stay, and their recommendations for local attractions and activities. The Orbitz Save the Date links their guests directly to Orbitz.com where they can check rates and book their entire trip, including hotel, air, car, and destination attractions and services. Weddings can be expensive, and saving an average of $202.00* by booking a packaged trip on Orbitz — flight + hotel, can help couples put a little more cash towards other essentials.

In addition to the Orbitz Save The Date tool, brides can create and send a newsletter to their guests to update them on pre-wedding events such as bridal showers and bachelorette parties.

“Who needs a little TLC more than a couple planning a wedding?” said Randy Wagner, chief marketing officer for Orbitz. “With OrbitzTLC, arranging travel for the big day is the easiest part of planning a wedding.”

About Orbitz

Orbitz (http://www.orbitz.com/) is a leading online travel company that enables travelers to search for and purchase a broad array of travel products, including airline tickets, lodging, rental cars, cruises and vacation packages. Since launching its website http://www.orbitz.com/ to the general public in June 2001, Orbitz has become the third largest online travel site based on gross travel bookings. On Orbitz, consumers can search more than 455 airlines, tens of thousands of lodging properties worldwide and 13 car rental companies. J.D. Power and Associates noted that Orbitz.com had the highest customer satisfaction for independent travel web sites — hotels in its 2005 Independent Hotel Web Site Study(SM). Study based on responses from 3,668 consumers who booked their hotel reservations through an independent travel Web site. http://www.jdpower.com/. Orbitz was acquired by Cendant’s Travel Distribution Services division in November 2004 and is part of the Consumer Travel Americas group.

*Average savings is based on actual completed bookings on Orbitz for two or more adult passengers traveling to our top 50 destinations for 4+ nights. Savings will vary by destination, origin, travel dates, and number of passengers.

About The Knot, Inc.

The Knot, Inc. (Nasdaq: KNOT; http://www.theknot.com/) is a leading lifestage media and services company. The Company’s flagship brand, The Knot, is the nation’s leading wedding resource that reaches over 1 million engaged couples each year through the Web, newsstands, bookstores, national television and more. Its award-winning website, TheKnot.com, is the most-trafficked online wedding destination. The Company also offers a diverse collection of print publications including national and regional editions of “The Knot Weddings” magazine, seven books, a popular TV series on The Oxygen Network, a Video On Demand (VOD) service for Comcast Cable and content distribution partnerships with MSN and Comcast. The Knot, Inc. has recently launched several brands targeted before and beyond the wedding day, including newlywed resource The Nest (http://www.thenest.com/), teen site PromSpot.com, and online personals site, GreatBoyfriends.com. The Knot, Inc. is based in New York and has several other offices across the country.

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