Time greeting guests at reception

rowenac82

If you aren't doing a receiving line. How much time are you ladies allotting to greet guests at the reception? To married knotties how long did it take and how many guests did you have?

msbdumas

Me and my mom was talking about this the other day...she said no more than 1 to 2 mins at each table to say thank you to everybody at the table if you in passing she said like 30 seconds but also depending on how many guest you might want to be less time than that...let's see what the MRS. Have to say !!

M1ssJ

15 table of 10 = 1 hour to me..... I'm figuring ppl will want, hi hugs and pics

Jana711

I actually spent a lot of time greeting guests.  We had about 150 guests, I believe.  At the point when I started to go to each table, most of the guests were up and out of their seats but it still seemed like it took forever.  My DH did not remember to greet a single guest as he was enjoying himself on the dancefloor all night long, lol!  I will say that because I tried to greet each person, my side and his side, I felt like I didn't enjoy the "party time" as much as I would have liked.  Like everyone always says, the day goes by extremely quickly.

Carla1019

We plan to finish our food first and greet our guests while they eat. This gives us an excuse to not visit long because they are eating. I think 1-2 minutes per table is good. We will have 25 tables so it will take a little less than an hour.

pearls687

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[QUOTE]<strong>We plan to finish our food first and greet our guests while they eat.</strong> This gives us an excuse to not visit long because they are eating. I think 1-2 minutes per table is good. We will have 25 tables so it will take a little less than an hour.
Posted by Carla1019[/QUOTE]

We did this.  We had 13 tables (100 guests) and, since we got our food first, some people were still eating when we did table visits.  We didn't have a specific amount of time allotted, just a plan to cover the all the tables at the earliest opportunities.  We broke the room up into quadrants and made sure to go dance in between each so we wouldn't get hung up and miss our own party.  Even with that, there was a lot of picture-taking and hugging in between and on the way to tables.  If our DOC noticed that someone was keeping us too long, she came to our rescue.  So she was the "timekeeper" and I don't know that we would have been able to stick to a specific allotment otherwise.  I can't really say how much total time we spent visiting.  When people say it FLIES by, that is in the most literal sense of the word!  It really, really does.

saharnshard

We spent probably 15 or 20 minutes greeting about 120 people at 12 tables. We had a buffet, so it was a little awkward trying to catch everyone at their tables. I didn't get to say hello to everyone so I almost wish we had done a receiving line especially since there were people there that neither me or hubs knew.

mejai1

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Time greeting guests at reception : We did this.  We had 13 tables (100 guests) and, since we got our food first, some people were still eating when we did table visits.  We didn't have a specific amount of time allotted, just a plan to cover the all the tables at the earliest opportunities.  <strong>We broke the room up into quadrants and made sure to go dance in between each so we wouldn't get hung up and miss our own party.  </strong>Even with that, there was a lot of picture-taking and hugging in between and on the way to tables.  If our DOC noticed that someone was keeping us too long, she came to our rescue.  So she was the "timekeeper" and I don't know that we would have been able to stick to a specific allotment otherwise.  I can't really say how much total time we spent visiting.  When people say it FLIES by, that is in the most literal sense of the word!  It really, really does.
Posted by pearls687[/QUOTE]<div>
</div><div>Love this. </div>

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We spent about 30 minutes doing 17 tables and about 130 guests.  Our meal was placed on the table during first dance, so we ate then waited until everyone had a chance to get their meal from the stations.  We didn't spend much time at like our parents table as we had already chatted with them before the cremony, and during pictures.  Our photographer just followed us around and took pictures as we visited the tables.

MrsJenrette

We didn't want to do a receiving line, but ended up doing it anyway (because my DOC wanted it to go her way for a minute). We also greeted the guests at their tables during the reception. We had under 115 guests that actually RSVP'd and came to the reception, so it didn't take us long to get thru the tables.

I say skip the receiving line.. especially if you have a lot of guests.. because taking the time to hug and talk to each person that was at the ceremony was EXTREMELY time consuming.. especially because we were ALREADY running late.

lcroster

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: <strong>Time greeting guests at reception : We did this.  We had 13 tables (100 guests) and, since we got our food first, some people were still eating when we did table visits.  </strong>We didn't have a specific amount of time allotted, just a plan to cover the all the tables at the earliest opportunities.  We broke the room up into quadrants and made sure to go dance in between each so we wouldn't get hung up and miss our own party.  Even with that, there was a lot of picture-taking and hugging in between and on the way to tables.  If our DOC noticed that someone was keeping us too long, she came to our rescue.  So she was the "timekeeper" and I don't know that we would have been able to stick to a specific allotment otherwise.  I can't really say how much total time we spent visiting.  <strong>When people say it FLIES by, that is in the most literal sense of the word!  It really, really does.
</strong>Posted by pearls687[/QUOTE]

I only had 7 tables (67 guest) and we did exactly this.  During the different course we got up to greet a different table.  Some times we were able to greet to.  That way by the time we opened the dance floor we had thanked everyone and taken pictures with everyone!  I have no idea how long we were at each table but it wasn't too long.