“As if we were real guests”: an emerging sale of strangers to weddings Wedding parties
When Jennifer, the actress, visited Paris’s wedding exhibition with her future husband because she planned for their big day, she noticed a company that looks strange.
Paris Starting The couples suggested tickets for their wedding ceremony for aid of strangers by app to help pay their costs. On the other hand, paid ticket owners, who may not be invited to many weddings, can mix with other guests and enjoy a happy day for someone.
Jennifer said, “I thought:” Wah, this is a good thing, “the presence of people you do not know at your wedding.” “But we took the newsletter, and we went to think about it and decided why not?
Jennifer, 48, and her husband, Paulo, 50, who met the dating application during the epidemic and have an 18 -month -old son, later this month in a country palace for an hour east of Paris. To them is the first wedding to be paid to guests. Their friends and family will number 80 adults and 15 children, some of whom travel from England, Germany and Portugal. But besides these loved ones, there will be five strangers to pay those who bought tickets.
Ticket holders will be present throughout the day, from the afternoon wedding and pledge in the garden, to outdoor drinks on the grass with live music, then a seating dinner in a vast dining room, with a group of fish or vegetable options-no meat because the bride is vegetables. Then there will be traditional parties on the dance circuit. The paid guests must adhere to the dress code-cursed on the wedding invitations as “elegant and elegant”-and I examined Jennifer and Paulo their personal files before choosing who will attend.
“It is not only the money, it is a decrease in the hot stone in terms of the cost of the total wedding, although it will help a little regarding the cost of things like decor and dress. This is also because we thought it could be fun and open and open to sharing things,” Jennifer said.
Jennifer, who works on the stage and television, and Paulo, a former athlete working in the construction trade, also believed that the five who paid strangers – a couple and three single men – could be a boost for their other guests. “We have a lot of single women who come to our wedding more than single men, so we thought this could balance things a little,” said Jennifer.
Lauren, 29, will be a playmaker who lives in the Paris region, and her husband, with a gardener of a landscape, will be among a handful of strangers who pay to attend. “I believed that selling tickets to your wedding to strangers seemed interesting,” Lauren said. “I don’t have a big family, so I can’t go to a lot of wedding parties, it is great to be able to try a different wedding and tradition, even if it is strangers. I am keen to check the decoration and music, and we will celebrate the dance bottom.”
Katia Likarki, who established Invitin earlier this year to match couples at weddings with guests who are paying, said that six marriages so far were to participate, especially in the Paris region. “I was hiring my home in southeast France for some of the people who were attending a wedding, and I asked my five -year -old daughter:” Why don’t we also call for weddings? “I thought: What if we could pay the tickets for a wedding and help the couple to marry this way?”
Lekarski’s point of view was that with many applications that suggest meeting with strangers-from the guides to dating or dinner with groups of new people-why not add weddings to the mixture. In India, the company joins my wedding, and already links to foreign tourists with couples who have traditional wedding parties, as a cultural experience under the line: “You did not go to India until you reach an Indian wedding.” In France, the idea was for the local population to attend a wedding as experience abroad and shared, as Invitin took a commission.
Likarki, a former fashion model, has previously operated an online platform to sell and distribute children’s interior design, the project, as is the case at a very early stage and said that the biggest challenge was to find husbands and guests to participate.
Likarki said that the husbands who showed interest in opening their wedding to paid ticket owners were often between 25 and 35 years old, but there was an older couple who were preparing to renew their covenants. Only a small number of paid guests – from five to 10, will attend, each of them pays between 100 to 150 euros, but tickets can be higher depending on the place. They will have to participate in strict rules, including wearing clothes appropriately, reaching on time, drinking moderation, and not publishing or sharing photos without permission.
The wedding couple, who usually have a lot of their guests to talk to them, are not obligated to meet and chat with them. “The wedding of his ecosystem has a chat with each other on their own,” said Likarski.
Lauren’s paid guests and her husband, who married themselves a month ago in a historic farm building south of Paris, take the matter seriously. “We will do it as if we were real guests, we will wear good clothes and bring a small gift.”
Lauren’s grandparents met at a wedding in Dijon and believed that weddings are the Feelgood event in the end. “Everyone is in a nice and happy mood, wearing clothes and celebrating love. This is not something you can do often because tickets are expensive, but it is a great opportunity.”
The only thing they are not sure is whether they will be in wedding photos. “We would like to be in the image of the group, but I am not sure how to do it, it’s a little strange.”