Neil Freiman

Well, you can pay for one.

According to the Wall Street Journal, there's been a surge of Indian couples selling invites to foreign tourists that allow them to crash their weddings.

As one visitor from Burlington, Vermont said,

I thought, what a fun random adventure.

We are in it for the plot.

We are in it for the memories.

The main facilitator of Indian wedding crashes is the startup Join My Wedding, which describes itself as the Airbnb for weddings.

And business is booming.

Registered ceremonies on the app are projected to double to about 10,000 this wedding season, which runs from November to February.

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Well, they're launching a hostile takeover, and that's when the company attempting the takeover is basically taking no for an answer.

The book definition is when one company tries to acquire another company against the wishes of the target company's leadership, whether it's its board of directors or its executives.

There have been a number of examples of hostile takeovers in the past, many of which have

not been so successful.

Some have been.

Just go back to 2022.