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I’m getting married next year, yay.
Let us suppose My Beautiful Fiancee and I wanted to invite a celebrity to our wedding, just because we like them and their work. For the sake of an example I shall use Alex Trebek, host of “Jeopardy!” We want to invite him and his wife, Jean, just like anyone else; a save-the-date card to be sent soon, an invitation next year, the same way I’d invite my cousin.
Any web search for Alex Trebek’s address yields the studio he works at. An invitation sent there will be simply thrown in the garbage. How does one get an invitation to a celebrity’s actual house? Granted they don’t easily give that info out but it must be known to SOMEONE - hell, “Celebrity X bought the house that used to belong to Celebrity Y” is a story people actually write in real publications, so someone knows where the house is.
So we want to invite Alex, and Benedict Cumberbatch and his fiancée, and George and Amal Clooney, and a bunch of favourite actors and such. How?
I wanted to contact a celeb once for an autograph on an item (I had to send the item to London and pay for them to ship it back). I got a 30-day free trial to IMDB Pro, found his agency’s name, emailed the agency, got a reply from a representative and we were off to the races. My plan worked great.
Anyway, contact their agency. Actors don’t have “studios” anymore, man
This is probably right. It still may not go anywhere; I’m sure that there are a lot of people who couldn’t be bothered (although I have no idea if he’s one of not).
You don’t want to take advantage of the wealth of social media options that the modern Internet affords us? Some of your targets have to be on Twitter or Vine or whatever.
I went to a wedding where the bride to be also invited Lady Gaga. I have no idea how the bride found out where to send the invite and I guess it didn’t matter cause Gaga never showed up.
While all of the celebrities I admire are writers, I’ve found that if I send a letter or card to their publishing house, you will get a reply. It might take a while, but it will happen. I usually just email them through their webpage, tell them that I found the perfect card for them and ask for a mailing address. (Of course, I add gushy stuff about why I’m their biggest fan and what was my favorite part in their latest book.)
I know this isn’t the answer you wanted, but I just wanted to mention that writers seem to love getting fan mail and always reply.
My wife sent invites for her wedding (to her first husband) to a bunch of celebs and got back a lot of nice replies on the rsvp cards. None showed up, but the invites weren’t just tossed.
Just realize most real “celebs” get a lot of wedding invites from us common folk.
Send through their preferred channels. They can get spooked when stuff comes from fans to their home.
Invite Bill Murray. He apparently has a toll free number you can call and leave a message request. Murray has no agent. The downside is (1) the toll free number is not published and (2) if you do find the number and call he will not respond; he may or may not show up.
Yeah the interwebs worked for this Aussie woman.
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