# Suppose I Want To Invite A Celebrity To My Wedding
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-i-want-to-invite-a-celebrity-to-my-wedding/703772
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [November 5, 2014, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-i-want-to-invite-a-celebrity-to-my-wedding/703772 "2014-11-05T16:37:57Z")
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### Author:  [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2014, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-i-want-to-invite-a-celebrity-to-my-wedding/703772/1 "2014-11-05T16:37:57Z")
DISCLAIMER: Please do not post any person addresses, phone numbers, etc. for anyone you might know or know about, that would be stupid.
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?
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2014, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-i-want-to-invite-a-celebrity-to-my-wedding/703772/2 "2014-11-05T16:51:15Z")
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 🙂
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### Author:  [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2014, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-i-want-to-invite-a-celebrity-to-my-wedding/703772/3 "2014-11-05T17:18:49Z")
For Alex Trebek, he’s talking about the actual physical studio that Jeopardy is shot at, not the company.
If you want to hire a celebrity, talk to their agent.
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### Author:  [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2014, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-i-want-to-invite-a-celebrity-to-my-wedding/703772/4 "2014-11-05T17:53:13Z")
> [@Lemur866](#):
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> If you want to hire a celebrity, talk to their agent.
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).
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### Author:  [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2014, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-i-want-to-invite-a-celebrity-to-my-wedding/703772/5 "2014-11-05T18:24:40Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Bruce\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Wayne)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2014, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-i-want-to-invite-a-celebrity-to-my-wedding/703772/6 "2014-11-05T18:37:02Z")
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.☹
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### Author:  [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2014, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-i-want-to-invite-a-celebrity-to-my-wedding/703772/7 "2014-11-05T18:45:01Z")
> [@Snooooopy](#):
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> 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.
A polite wedding invitation is not sent via Twitter. A polite wedding invitation is sent by mail.
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2014, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-i-want-to-invite-a-celebrity-to-my-wedding/703772/8 "2014-11-05T18:48:05Z")
Wasn’t there a story recently (year or two) of someone inviting Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip to her wedding and they actually showed up?
Off to Google.
ETA: [Here it is.](http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/25/world/europe/uk-queen-wedding-crasher/)
> [@](#):
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> London (CNN) – John and Frances Canning didn’t really expect Queen Elizabeth to come to their wedding, but when they learned she was going to be in Manchester, England, on the day of their nuptials, they sent an invitation on a whim.
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> She showed up.
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### Author:  [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2014, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-i-want-to-invite-a-celebrity-to-my-wedding/703772/9 "2014-11-06T01:57:01Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2014, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-i-want-to-invite-a-celebrity-to-my-wedding/703772/10 "2014-11-06T02:11:56Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2014, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-i-want-to-invite-a-celebrity-to-my-wedding/703772/11 "2014-11-06T03:25:08Z")
My 25th wedding anniversary (and resultant reaffirmation of vows) is coming up in a few years, so Alice be warned. \<3
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### Author:  [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2014, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-i-want-to-invite-a-celebrity-to-my-wedding/703772/12 "2014-11-06T04:33:18Z")
[Invite Bill Murray](http://tarf.com/news/entertainment/bill-murray-accepts-fans-invitation-to-birthday-party-proceeds-to-have-a-blast/). 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.
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### Author:  [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2014, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suppose-i-want-to-invite-a-celebrity-to-my-wedding/703772/13 "2014-11-06T08:31:22Z")
> [@Snooooopy](#):
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> 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.
Yeah the interwebs worked for [this Aussie woman.](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2460014/Jon-Bon-Jovi-walks-fan-aisle-Las-Vegas-wedding.html)
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Living On A Prayer: Jon Bon Jovi makes superfan’s dream come true as he walks
her down the aisle at the same Las Vegas chapel he was married in.\*\*