Peer's name on formal wedding invitation

[elisaberk]

Setting: Modern day London
Searches Used: Hours wasted trawling through Debrett's and hours more on google using every (or nearly every since there's probably some that I forgot) permutation of "groom's name" "peer" "title" "rank" and "wedding invitation" possible

Comments

[eleanorb]

Honestly, it would depend on how well the peer was known to the family. If he was a close friend his everyday name would be used e.g. Mr John Smith. If less well known, e.g. it was a friend of a friend who needed to be invited for some reason the Lord Smith would be referred. For a State occasion his full title.

[elisaberk]

Thanks for your response! If I'm understanding correctly, the forms you listed are correct for addressing an invitation to a guest who happens to be a peer - alas, I think my question (upon second reading) came off as unclear and has been edited appropriately...this is what happens when I dash off a query after too long at the computer and books >.>

[randomstasis]

In the US, you would use a host's and honoree's title, as in the President and Mrs. X announce a reception for the Right Honorable blahblah.

And for formal invitations, I doubt they'd use a different style than for the formal announcement, so maybe you can find a wedding announcement that helps?

[alextiefling]

I think it's (5), since that's the simplest form of his most senior title, and the wedding takes place in England. Peers don't generally use their full given names for these things, and you don't use more than one title at once, unless it's a combined title (like Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne). Even the Prince of Wales didn't get his given name printed on his wedding invitation, and the Duke of Cambridge only did because his title wasn't announced until the morning of the ceremony, so he was HRH Prince William when the invitations went out.

[thekumquat]

I'm pretty sure it's 5, having had invitations from a couple Lords to drinks receptions - it's "The Lord Wherever requests..."

Never more than one title at a time, and simplicity rules.

[inamac]

The third version (without the 'The' in front of his title) appears to be the form used for the wedding of Deborah Mitford and Lord Cavendish in 1941.

[alextiefling]

Wasn't Debo Mitford's husband the heir to a peerage rather than a peer in his own right? I suspect, without immediate proof, that he'd have been billed as "His Grace the Duke of Devonshire" if he'd been a peer.

[inamac]

He was the heir to the Dukedom - but he was also Lord Cavendish in his own right - which is the title the OP is asking about.

Agreed if Frederick James Findlay was a Duke the correct style would be 'His Grace the Duke of Glenelg' but as he is an Earl the correct style is 'Lord Glenelg'.

As above, the simpler the better.