WHO WE ARE
I quit my job at Gloria Steinem’s office to start my own wedding photography company.
Hi, I’m Carly. In 2013, I Googled “feminist wedding photography” and received exactly four results (it was creepy). What started as a quest to find someone to shoot my own love party—specifically someone who didn’t take the traditional “bride centric” approach—became the spark of a business idea. Soon after, I taught myself photography and quit my feminist dream job to start my own business. Since then, I’ve developed a signature style: true-to-life, candid, and community-focused, subverting the typical contrived “editorial” + cheesy wedding images that flood the internet daily. I’ve also been one of the most progressive voices in the wedding industry over the past ten years, driving intersectional change wherever possible. Today, I and my team document dozens of weddings, elopements and love parties all over the world each year.
After a decade of work and hundreds of celebrations documented,
2023 will be the last year of Carly Romeo & Co. We are currently taking on just two more weddings/elopements for 2023.
MEET THE TEAM
Our work has been featured in The New York Times, Style Me Pretty, Catalyst Wedding Magazine, munaluchi bridal, A Practical Wedding, Richmond Bride, Washingtonian Bride & Groom, Offbeat Bride, and more.
we have won the weddingwire couple’s choice award every year since 2015.
“Carly Romeo & Co is the antidote to all the one-note wedding photography in the world. Our wedding was a gathering of friends and family who would never be in the same place again, and the fact that they were there to celebrate and support us was what was important to my partner and I. When we explained this to Carly, she just got it. Our photos from the day contain luminous shots of ourselves, but more importantly, the photos she captured of our guests are the ones that make me cry. A wedding goes by so fast, and seeing snaps of kids playing in the setting sun, of my grandpa nursing a glass of red wine, of friends trying to sort out the wonky sound system—those pictures are so important to us.”