Strangers are paying up to $150 for empty seats at weddings all because one couple ran out of date-night ideas—20,000 people have signed up
Source: Fortune ·
San Diego couple Jeff and Karina Besen have been married 19 years. They built Not a Wedding Crasher after running out of date night ideas.
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Jeff and Karina Besen have a standing date night every week. After 19 years of marriage, they ran out of things to do. “One day, Jeff literally looked at me and said, ‘Hey, wouldn’t it be fun if we could get dressed up and go to a wedding?’” Karina told Fortune. Her first answer was you can’t just do that: They didn’t know anyone getting married, they themselves got married and had kids relatively young, and they certainly weren’t going to crash a wedding—just yet. So the two started chatting and wondered if there was a resource where they could get connected to couples having a wedding in their area who needed a seat-filler of sorts. Jeff looked into it and found nothing like it existed. So, the San Diego couple built it. Not a Wedding Crasher, which launched in mid-March, lets couples share unused wedding seats with verified guests, who pay a fee set by the couple to attend the ceremony and reception. And it’s solving a pretty common problem: Jeff said an estimated 10% to 20% of…
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