diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 1e71853..4a2575b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ The `ListErrorBuilder::push` and `ListErrorBuilder::insert` methods will ignore
 | `pattern`                | Validation using regular expressions via the `regex` crate                                                                        | [`regex`](https://crates.io/crates/regex), [`once_cell`](https://crates.io/crates/once_cell) |
 | `credit-card`            | Validation of credit card numbers via the `card-validate` crate                                                                   | [`card-validate`](https://crates.io/crates/card-validate)                                    |
 | `phone-number`           | Validation of phone numbers via the `phonenumber` crate                                                                           | [`phonenumber`](https://crates.io/crates/phonenumber)                                        |
-| `regex-lite`             | Adds support for the `regex-lite` crate for the pattern validator                                                                 | [`regex-lite`](https://crates.io/crates/regex-lite)                                          |
+| `regex-lite`             | Adds support for the `regex-lite` crate for the pattern validator and switches the email validator to use `regex-lite` instead of `regex` | [`regex-lite`](https://crates.io/crates/regex-lite)                                          |
 
 Additional notes:
 - Enabling the `regex-lite` feature does not remove the dependency on the `regex` crate, but if you avoid using `#[garde(pattern(...)]` with a string literal, then `regex` will not be used and may be removed by link-time optimisation.
diff --git a/garde/src/lib.rs b/garde/src/lib.rs
index 5257bdd..3a6e969 100644
--- a/garde/src/lib.rs
+++ b/garde/src/lib.rs
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@
 //! | `pattern`                | Validation using regular expressions via the `regex` crate                                                                        | [`regex`](https://crates.io/crates/regex), [`once_cell`](https://crates.io/crates/once_cell) |
 //! | `credit-card`            | Validation of credit card numbers via the `card-validate` crate                                                                   | [`card-validate`](https://crates.io/crates/card-validate)                                    |
 //! | `phone-number`           | Validation of phone numbers via the `phonenumber` crate                                                                           | [`phonenumber`](https://crates.io/crates/phonenumber)                                        |
-//! | `regex-lite`             | Adds support for the `regex-lite` crate for the pattern validator                                                                 | [`regex-lite`](https://crates.io/crates/regex-lite)                                          |
+//! | `regex-lite`             | Adds support for the `regex-lite` crate for the pattern validator and switches the email validator to use `regex-lite` instead of `regex` | [`regex-lite`](https://crates.io/crates/regex-lite)                                          |
 
 pub mod error;
 pub mod rules;
diff --git a/garde/src/rules/email.rs b/garde/src/rules/email.rs
index 9f95a44..1632a10 100644
--- a/garde/src/rules/email.rs
+++ b/garde/src/rules/email.rs
@@ -16,7 +16,10 @@ use std::fmt::Display;
 use std::str::FromStr;
 
 use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
+#[cfg(not(feature = "regex-lite"))]
 use regex::Regex;
+#[cfg(feature = "regex-lite")]
+use regex_lite::Regex;
 
 use super::AsStr;
 use crate::error::Error;