Carley Roney nearly wore black at her wedding in 1993, but decided at the last minute to wear her mother’s wedding dress. She planned the reception in three weeks; it turned out to be on a sweltering July evening. “I was the anti-bride and now I’m the queen of weddings,” she said. Ms. Roney, 46, and her husband, David Liu, 48, were among the founders of the wedding resource company The Knot in 1996. It has since become the XO Group, a media company that includes sites for new and pregnant couples. Ms. Roney and Mr. Liu and their children, Havana, 16, Cairo, 10, and Dublin, 6, live in Dumbo, which Ms. Roney calls “wedding central,” especially in June. Every bride in the city, she said, seems to take pictures beneath the Brooklyn Bridge.
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SUNRISE SNUGGLES My littlest, who inevitably ends up in my bed at 3 o’clock in the morning, wakes me up at 6:30 a.m. no matter if it’s Monday or Sunday. But cheerfully, always. We snuggle in bed for as long as possible, chit-chatting, listening to NPR.
BREAKFAST NO. 1 I’ll get up and make waffles, or whatever they’re asking for. “Breakfast No. 1,” we call it.
E-BINGE The kids get two hours of screen time a week. My little one wakes up my older one so they can binge on their two hours of iPads the first thing.
WALK AND TALK Every Sunday I go for a walk with my friend Eva Nevado. We walk across the Brooklyn Bridge religiously. She’s from Barcelona. We speak Spanish one way and we speak English on the way back. We call it exercise, but it’s really just an excuse to have coffee. When we get back, we usually go to One Girl Cookies, West Elm Market orAlmondine Bakery.
BREAKFAST NO. 2 I always buy a loaf of bread at Almondine and croissants for the kids, our second breakfast. Then I stand at the kitchen counter and read The New York Times. I read the front page first, and then the Styles section, the Business section and then I read the magazine.
BIKES, BREAD, BADMINTON What we’re doing these days is grabbing our bicycles, packing a picnic with our loaf of bread, and taking the boys and the husband, if he’s in town, and going to Brooklyn Bridge Park. We pack cold cuts and cheese, salamis. I cut up fruits and vegetables. We pack up basketballs, soccer balls, and since we got back from China, we play badminton.
VIRTUAL ME MAINTENANCE In the afternoon when we get home, the boys will play with friends in the building. That’s when I catch up on the week’s weddings on social. I’ll take pictures of brides and regram them. I’ll say congratulations to any brides. I’ll search The Knot hashtag on Twitter. I call it my “virtual me” maintenance.
REAL ME MAINTENANCE At some point in this day, I take the longest shower ever. That’s the “real me” maintenance. I am invisible.
ROOF PARTY I used to get the Sunday night heebie-jeebies. The antidote to that is having a lot of people around, to have a party on Sunday night. Since it’s summertime, on Sunday nights we do a pizza party with three families on our roof deck. Sometimes we’ll grill. We live in pizza central. We get it at Juliana’s, the original Grimaldi’s; I have a strong sense of loyalty. We have 6 o’clock dinner. And the kids run around and do whatever, have total water gun fights. It’s really a fun way to end the weekend.
WATCHING THE DETECTIVES I don’t get to watch any television. So on Sundays I try to watch one hour. Right now we’re watching “Broadchurch,” it’s an English television show. I usually spend time with my teenager. The grown-ups — that’s what we call her — watch the hour of TV together.
LATE-NIGHT LAUNDRY I stay up so late, I hate to admit. I stay up till 1 o’clock. I’ll put the last loads of laundry in. I start putting clothes out for the little one. I love my Sundays mostly because I love the sense that there’s really no obligations. I’m a parent with three kids, and a big job — always I’m supposed to be somewhere, and always I’m late for something. On Sunday, it’s completely fluid.
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