Q. Should preference for reciting sheva brochos in the case above (Q. 2555) be given to the one that led the benching since he started with the mitzva?
A. Poskim maintain that it can be given to someone else lechatchila, and that is the common custom. (Piskei Teshuva 62: 17, quoting Hamakne, Ritvo Kesuvos 7b).
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit’a.