As Site Director of TheKnot.com, Anja Winikka combines her writing and editing skills with her weddings expertise to bring the most of-the-moment wedding trends to millions of engaged couples across the country.

Anja immersed herself in the weddings industry at a young age, when she took a job as a weddings coordinator at a local reception space, helping to make hundreds of couples’ wedding days perfect. Now in addition to researching, writing and reporting on all things weddings for TheKnot.com and the Wedding Obsessions blog, Anja can be found pouring over thousands of pictures from real wedding submissions across the country. Anja reports on a variety of topics for the website and magazines, ranging in subject from destination wedding planning tips to stationery trends and wedding cake designs.

Anja has been a popular source for wedding trends, destination bachelor and bachelorette parties, honeymoons, and bridesmaid etiquette in national McClatchy newspapers and has also appeared on the Today, ABC 20/20, Inside Edition, Spike TV, CNN Headline News, and local NBC and FOX news segments across the country.