Yuri is a married man. He is married to the love of his life, Tera Platt. Lowenthal met actress Tara Platt on an NYU grad film where they played opposite each other in a romantic comedy film called Model Chaser. Six months into their relationship, Lowenthal helped Platt do a cross-country move to Los Angeles so that Platt could participate in auditions there for new TV shows.
He had originally planned to fly back after the move, but midway through the trip, he proposed to her in Bowling Green, Ohio. They married in Las Vegas in 2002. They founded a company called Monkey Kingdom Productions in 2004. Their child, Sagan Carter Lowenthal, was born in 2016.