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About LOVU

We built the world’s first romance travel marketplace — then a family of AI products around it.

LOVU is on a mission to make romance travel the best-served vertical in a multi-trillion-dollar industry — for couples, and for the businesses that serve them.

Romance travel — honeymoons, destination weddings, anniversaries, proposals — is one of the most emotional, highest-intent corners of travel. Yet for years it had no home of its own. Couples stitched trips together across a dozen sites; the hotels, advisors, and destinations who serve them had no dedicated channel to reach demand.

LOVU changed that. We built the first marketplace dedicated exclusively to romance travel, connecting couples with the world’s most exceptional romance-focused providers. Then we kept going — turning the hard-won lessons of running that marketplace into a family of AI products that help partners capture, qualify, and convert romance demand without renting attention from the OTAs.

Today LOVU is both: the consumer marketplace at lovu.travel and a suite of tools — lead capture, advisor software, a destination CMS, and a design-and-build studio — purpose-built for the businesses behind love’s biggest moments.

$300B+

Romance travel market

20,000+

Romance travel advisors

5

Products in the family

25+

Wedding destinations

The team

Who’s behind LOVU

Shri Lildharrie

Shri Lildharrie

Founder & CEO

Twenty-plus years across travel, marketing, and the wedding industry — from running the travel vertical at TheKnot.com to building hotel websites worldwide at the agency NextGuest (HEBS Digital), where he met his LOVU co-founder.

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Artyom Sklyarov

Artyom Sklyarov

Co-Founder & CPO

Designer and builder with twenty years in interactive media. As VP of Design at the hotel agency NextGuest (HEBS Digital), he and Shri shipped websites for hotels and resorts worldwide; through his studio SUUR he has since built for Marriott, Hard Rock Hotels, Loews, and dozens of independent properties.

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