Michelle Preli is the Editor-in-Chief of Brides.com, Condé Nast’s premier destination bridal Web site, with more than 1.2 million unique users every month and 60-percent year-over-year growth in traffic. Brides.com’s dedicated editorial team creates original content, develops interactive tools, cultivates an engaged community and provides an array of beautiful imagery and video to empower the bride throughout her wedding-planning process. Brides.com commands a superior market position by aggregating content from three national magazines—Brides, Modern Bride, Elegant Bride—and 16 local bridal magazines. Brides.com launched nationwide in April 2006.


Before joining Brides.com, Ms. Preli had been the Vice President of editorial programming at NBC’s iVillage.com. Prior to that, she was General Manager of Newsweek’s BudgetTravel.com.

Ms. Preli also spent 10 years at MSNBC.com, where she was part of the team that launched the news site. There she became  Executive Producer of TV News Co-Productions, overseeing the Web sites for the Today show, Nightly News with Brian Williams, Dateline NBC and Meet the Press.

Before MSNBC.com, she was a founding member of NBC News Online, the network’s first online news venture, where she was responsible for covering national news, including the 1996 presidential election. She has been honored with four Clarion Awards for online journalism from the Association for Women in Communications.

Preli received an M.S. from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and a B.A. from Bard College. A native of Louisville, Ky., she lives in Brooklyn with her husband, photographer Evan Sklar, and their two children, Emmitt and Ava.