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In Response to Re: Receiving line... To have...or Not to have?:
You should greet each guest personally. You can do this one of several ways: - traditional receiving line leaving the ceremony/church - receiving line to enter the reception venue/cocktail hour - table visits during the meal If you plan on doing table visits, make sure you have enough time (15 tables is a lot). Girls on here who have done them said they took way longer than expected, they didn't get to eat, they didn't get to dance, and/or they didn't get to all the tables.
Posted by naomikb
This is the reason we are not doing table visits. Plus, I don't want to spend the majority of my reception worrying about whether I have greeted every single person or not - FI and I would like to be able to enjoy ourselves and do what we want versus what we are obligated to do. (Not to sound harsh or that I wouldn't like to greet guests, but I don't want to spend an hour at a table stuck talking to Great Aunt Marge about how our wedding reminds her of this wedding she went to one time....which reminds her of this other wedding....on and on.)
We are doing something very similar to what you suggested - our receiving "line" will only be FI & myself, and we are going to stand in a courtyard about 50 yards or so from the chapel doors. People who want to wait in line to greet us are welcome to, but if they don't want to stay they won't be trapped in the chapel from people waiting in the receiving line. Any stragglers we'll greet at the reception.
The other things I like about a receiving line is that when guests know that there are people waiting in line behind them, they aren't going to talk your ear off for an hour. I think one of the reasons table visits take so long is that the conversation is typically a lot longer than congrats/we're so happy for you/the ceremony was beautiful, etc.
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