"honorary guests" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
For example, "The mayor's office invited several honorary guests to the ribbon-cutting ceremony."
Seventy years ago, Orville Wright and Amelia Earhart were honorary guests at the grand opening of the Franklin Institute Science Museum's Aviation Hall in Philadelphia.
Tomorrow, the Norgroves will be at a dinner at the new Robert Burns museum in Ayrshire, honorary guests for the Robert Burns Humanitarian award, where their daughter is posthumously shortlisted for this year's 1759 guinea (£1,847) prize.
Here, highlanders still treat visitors as honorary guests; their welcome (bone crushing handshakes, carbohydrate-heavy dishes and copious pre-breakfast brandies) enhanced by a carpe diem attitude towards life.
In Beijing, McDonald's staff make a point of befriending the little monsters, recording their names and birthdates in a special list called "The Book of Little Honorary Guests", who are then sent cards just before the happy day from their burger-selling uncles and aunts.
He later arranged for Samuel Jackson, Salma Hayek, Lucy Liu, Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, and Priscilla Presley to serve as Honorary Guests of the Cairo International Film Festival.
Starting in 2006, (for three years) Hervey served as a Management Consultant for the 30th International Cairo Film Festival and arranged for actors Danny Glover and Gabrielle Union to serve as special Honorary Guests of the Festival that was held in Cairo, Egypt.
will attend as an honorary guest.
The other honorary guest of this edition is more discreet.
Edward VII, son of Queen Victoria, was the honorary guest at one of the greatest social events of his time, a ball at the New York Academy of Music in November 1860.
He had precious few connections with the black community, was not known for "giving back" once he had made it, played a lot of golf (sometimes as an honorary guest at white-only country clubs) and left his black wife for a younger, white woman (Nicole).
Honorary Guest Editor Rod Ulane of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center presents an overview of M.D./Ph.D. training.
