There is a new wedding trend sweeping Europe – couples are selling wedding tickets to perfect strangers to help cover the rising costs of these momentous events.

Katia Lekarski, who founded Invitin earlier this year, came up with the idea of selling tickets to weddings while renting her home in south-eastern France to some people who were attending a wedding. Her five-year-old daughter asked, ‘Why aren’t we also invited to weddings?’ and that’s when it hit her – there are other people who simply don’t get invited to weddings as much as they’d like, so what if she could sell that as a service. She would be helping newlyweds cover some of the costs of organizing a wedding and make some money for herself as a commission. Now Invitin has several couples willing to sell tickets to their wedding on the platform, and plenty of people willing to pay hundreds of euros to attend.

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