Wedding and lifestyle expert Carley Roney is cofounder of The Knot, the nation’s leading wedding resource.

Motivated by the excruciating process of planning her own wedding, Carley and her partners founded The Knot in 1996 and quickly took the wedding world by storm with a fresh voice, stylish ideas and up-to-date advice for modern nearly-weds. Today, The Knot reaches 8 in 10 U.S. brides annually with premium multi-media content offerings on mobile applications, the web, in magazines and books, on television, and through social media.

As today’s leading expert on real-world weddings and young married life, Roney frequently appears on television shows like TODAY, Good Morning America, Access Hollywood, The View and CNN, and has been quoted in The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, WWD, The Huffington Post, and People. She is the author of more than a dozen popular wedding, newlywed and baby books, and her syndicated advice column “Ask Carley” appears in newspapers nationwide.

Carley lives in Brooklyn with her husband and three children, and can be followed on Twitter at @carleyroney.