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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Business
Paolo Villanueva

Would You Pay $1,000 to Attend a Wedding? This US Couple Asked Guests To — And People Actually Went

Marley Jaxx and Steve Larsen charged up to $1,000 for entry into their not-so-private-function, and raised $132,000 for charity in the process (Credit: Marley Jaxx / @marleyjaxx/Instagram)

How far would you go to fund your dream wedding? For one American couple, the answer was bold: they asked their guests—most of them strangers—to pay as much as $1,000 (£790) each for a seat at their ceremony. And astonishingly, people paid.

While many on social media branded the move a 'mockery' of marriage, Marley Jaxx and Steve Larsen insisted their approach was less about profit and more about disrupting a bloated wedding industry. And with over 270 guests in attendance, they may have just rewritten the wedding rulebook.

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