What Wedaways does

Wedaways, Inc. is a privately held, California-domiciled luxury travel company that operates a curated marketplace specializing in destination weddings and honeymoons. The platform matches engaged couples and honeymoon travelers with vetted luxury wedding venues, wedding planners, and travel service providers across more than 28 countries, including the Caribbean, Europe, Mexico, the Maldives, and Japan. The company leverages 30+ years of industry experience and an invitation-only vetting process, with staff personally visiting each property and interviewing each wedding planner before admission to the network. Its portfolio includes major luxury hotel brands (Belmond, Hilton, Marriott, Mandarin Oriental, Four Seasons, Viceroy) alongside independent boutique properties, private islands, castles, and estates.

The platform is structured as a web-based marketplace and referral engine accessed via wedaways.com, supplemented by a B2B partner portal at wedawaystravel.com and a proprietary VIP Hotel Booking Platform (wedaways.travelwits.com) that enables direct hotel bookings with VIP perks. Core tools include a venue search and filtering engine (by property type, setting, country, and exclusive use), a Compare Venues feature, a member dashboard for managing inquiries, quotes, contracts, and payments, and supporting service modules covering wedding planner matching, honeymoon travel advisory, FAM (familiarization) trips, room blocks and buyouts, and guest travel coordination.

Wedaways generates revenue through three primary streams: commissions on property bookings (wedaways.com and travelwits.com), referral fees from wedding planners in its network, and fees for travel services coordination including airport transfers, guest logistics, and excursions. Client-facing marketing is conducted across Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube, LinkedIn, a content blog, and email newsletters. The company is affiliated with the Virtuoso luxury travel advisor network and maintains a co-marketing partnership with Coastline Travel Group. Pricing is not publicly disclosed; properties and wedding planners invoice clients directly, with the company acting as intermediary.

Name

Wedaways

Legal name

Wedaways, Inc.

Website

https://wedaways.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Wedaways is a privately held luxury travel marketplace connecting engaged couples with curated destination wedding venues, wedding planners, and honeymoon properties across 28+ countries, earning commissions on bookings and referral fees from its vetted planner network.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Luxury Destination Wedding and Honeymoon Travel Services

akta.pro primary industry

Full-Service Wedding Planning (HSACABAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Destination Wedding Planning (HSACABAD), Vendor Sourcing & Management (Venues, Catering, Photo/Video, Music) (HSACABAG), Honeymoon & Romance Travel Agencies (THAKAFAC), Destination Wedding & Honeymoon All-Inclusive Resorts (THAGAKAJ)

Keywords

• Destination wedding venues
• Luxury honeymoon travel
• Wedding venue marketplace
• Luxury travel coordination
• Wedding planner network

Headquarters

HQ city

Beverly Hills

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Commission on Property Bookings: Wedaways earns commissions from luxury properties when couples book accommodations, room blocks, and exclusive use through the platform. The company facilitates transactions between members (engaged couples/travelers) and service providers (hotels, venues).
2. Referral Fees from Wedding Planners: Wedaways matches couples with wedding planners in their network and receives referral fees or commissions when planner services are engaged through their platform.
3. Travel Services Coordination: The Wedaways Travel Department arranges airport transfers, guest travel logistics, and excursion bookings, earning fees for coordination services.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Wedaways is a curated marketplace and travel coordination service that connects engaged couples with vetted luxury wedding venues, honeymoon properties, and wedding planners across 28+ countries. The platform facilitates destination wedding venue sourcing, property buyouts, room block bookings, and luxury travel logistics including airport transfers, guest coordination, and honeymoon itinerary design. Revenue is generated through commissions on property bookings and referral fees when couples engage in-network wedding planners and travel services.

Product overview

Wedaways is a luxury travel agency and venue referral platform specializing in destination weddings and honeymoons. The offering is structured as a platform-plus-services model: at its core is a curated venue sourcing and referral platform (venue search engine) that matches engaged couples with vetted luxury properties and wedding planners globally. This is paired with a proprietary VIP Hotel Booking Platform (powered by Travelwits) for direct bookings with VIP perks. Supporting the platform are service modules including Luxury Travel Coordination (venue sourcing, buyouts, accommodation blocks, planner collaboration, ground logistics, concierge services), Wedding Planner Matching, Honeymoon Travel Advisory (including honeymoon hops and excursion itineraries), FAM (Familiarization) Trips for discovery visits, and Room Blocks & Buyouts coordination. A Member Dashboard enables inquiry, quote, and contract management with payment processing. The Compare Venues Tool allows side-by-side venue comparison. An invitation-only VIP Travel List and B2B Partner Portal extend the ecosystem to partners and high-value clients. All services are delivered through a global network of vetted luxury venue partners and wedding planning professionals, with 30+ years of expertise in the luxury wedding travel segment.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Venue Sourcing & Referral Platform
• VIP Hotel Booking Platform
• Luxury Travel Coordination Services
• Wedding Planner Matching
• Honeymoon Travel Advisory
• FAM Trips (Familiarization Trips)
• Room Blocks & Buyouts
• Curated Venue Portfolio

Quantifiable outcome

• 30+ years of industry expertise in luxury wedding and honeymoon travel

Named customers2 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• VirtuosocoreGTM or Marketing PartnerWedaways is affiliated with Virtuoso, a prestigious network of luxury travel advisors and suppliers. This partnership provides credibility in the luxury travel space and connects Wedaways clients with exclusive perks, upgrades, and access to Virtuoso's global network of luxury travel services.
• Coastline Travel GroupcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorCo-marketing partnership with Coastline Travel Group, a travel agency network. This relationship helps expand reach to consumers seeking luxury wedding travel services and provides additional distribution for Wedaways' venue portfolio.
• Luxury Wedding Venues NetworkcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerWedaways maintains an invitation-only network of luxury wedding venues including resorts, private villas, castles, and estates. Properties undergo vetting before inclusion. Partners include major hotel brands (Belmond, Hilton, Marriott, Mandarin Oriental, Viceroy, Four Seasons) and independent luxury properties across global destinations.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights10 records

Broad incumbents

• Kayak / Booking.com: Booking.com is a global OTA with luxury inventory and increasingly curated hotel collections. While mass-market, it competes at the meta-search and booking layer, and its scale and marketing budget make it a structural threat to niche luxury intermediaries.
• Virtuoso: Virtuoso is the leading luxury travel advisor network that Wedaways itself is affiliated with. It serves as both a GTM partner and a broader incumbent whose network of advisors and supplier inventory competes for the same luxury travel wallet share.
• Zola: Zola is a wedding registry and planning platform with a broad vendor marketplace. It addresses engaged couples at scale and has expanded into planning tools that overlap with Wedaways' higher-touch services, though its positioning is mass-market rather than luxury.
• The Knot Worldwide: The Knot is a leading wedding planning platform with vendor marketplaces, planning tools, and content reaching virtually all engaged couples. While broader than Wedaways' luxury destination focus, it competes for the same consumer's initial wedding-discovery journey and is well-capitalized.

Regional players

• Hitched: Hitched is a UK-focused wedding directory and planning platform with strong European supplier relationships. It is comparable to Wedaways for the UK/European luxury wedding market but does not directly serve the US/Caribbean couples that anchor Wedaways' audience.

Direct peers

• Quintessentially Travel: Quintessentially is a luxury concierge and travel service for high-net-worth individuals, offering venue sourcing, planning, and access to exclusive properties. It is directly comparable to Wedaways' white-glove coordination and property-buyout services for elite clients.
• Black Tomato: Black Tomato is a luxury bespoke travel agency designing tailor-made itineraries for high-net-worth clients, including honeymoons and milestone trips. It competes for the same affluent customer segment as Wedaways and overlaps with multi-destination 'honeymoon hop' itinerary design.
• Destify: Destify is a destination wedding and honeymoon travel specialist that connects couples with all-inclusive resort properties, similar to Wedaways' core venue-sourcing marketplace. Both operate as curated referral platforms targeting engaged couples planning international weddings, though Destify leans more heavily on all-inclusive resort packages.
• Mr & Mrs Smith: Mr & Mrs Smith is a curated luxury hotel marketplace offering VIP perks, upgrades, and member-only rates - functionally similar to Wedaways' Travelwits-powered hotel booking platform. Both monetize via commissions on luxury bookings and emphasize vetted, high-quality inventory with concierge-style service.

Others

• Belmond Hotels: Belmond is a luxury hotel brand (and Wedaways partner) that operates destination wedding venues globally. While not a direct competitor, it represents the supply-side partner that could choose to disintermediate and capture couples directly through its own direct-booking channels.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCyV4BkVFeWRSyFB3x6yl1yw
• Facebookfacebook.com/wedaways
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/restrauss
• Instagraminstagram.com/wedawaystravel
• Pinterestpinterest.com/wedaways_/pins
• Xx.com/wedaways_

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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