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Startup Sells Empty Wedding Seats to Strangers for Revenue

Not A Wedding Crasher allows couples to monetize unused wedding invitations by selling seats to strangers.

2 publishers · 2 articles · first seen 20 Oct 2026 · updated 2h ago

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2 publishers have covered this in 2 articles since 20 Oct 2026. Fortune published first, on 20 October at 07:04 UTC; Inc. followed 28h 56m later. The most recent article, from Inc., appeared on 21 October at 12:00 UTC.

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  1. Couples Spend $292 Per Wedding Guest. This Startup Is Selling the Empty Seats to Strangers Inc.
  2. Strangers are paying up to $150 for empty seats at weddings all because one couple ran out of date-night ideas—20,000 people have signed up Fortune

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  • Not A Wedding Crasher
  • Jeff Besen
  • Karina Besen
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