FI and I had decided not to do a receiving line after the ceremony and just plan to say our hellos as we walk table to table at the reception. BUT then we spoke to his mother. She really thinks that it is a "must do". We are having a very traditional church ceremony and the vast majority of our guests will be traveling. She says she thinks it would be rude of us not to acknowledge our guests immediately following the nuptials. FI and I think that we already have such limited time for pictures between ceremony and reception that a receiving line would end up making us late for dinner.
Has anybody done or not done a receiving line and regretted it?
Is this something we should reconsider adding to our day?
I'm really torn because on one hand, I realized that we will have 20 tables of people to say hello to at the reception if we don't have the receiving line at the church (which will cut into dancing time) but on the other hand, saying hello to 140 people after the ceremony seems like it will take a long time too and we have a little over 1.5 hours to take pictures at the church, drive to our next pic location and then get back to the reception... What to do what to do?