Greeting guests table to table?

michelleutset · June 2010

Hi ladies,
Are you planning on going to each table and greeting guests during dinner? We'll be done eating first but are planning to cut the cake during dinner so we can get the party started right away. I'm worried that going to each and every table will take too long, although I do want to make sure to thank my guests for coming. Thoughts?

quotequeen · June 2010

Yes. You must greet each guest personally in some manner.

lizstill13 · June 2010

We went table to table to make sure that we thanked every single person for attending. It meant a lot for us to be able to do that and I really think everyone appreciated it. We cut the cake right after we did that and everyone else was done eating too, so they could watch it they wanted to. The dancing started right after that.

AllAboutTheBenjamin · June 2010

No.

But that's just because we'll be receiving everyone on the way out of the church - that's our opportunity to talk to everyone who came.

We're having about 400 people come to our wedding so ushering them out of the church is going to take forever. If we took the time to greet all the tables, we'd never get to eat.

But that's just us.

[Deleted User] · June 2010

Yes. We are not allowed to have receiving line at our church, so we are going around to everyone at the reception. Also some people are attending the reception and not the ceremony, so even if you do have a receiving line, sometimes you are not talking to everyone anyway.

jedaniel · June 2010

Yea we will be making a short visit to every table to say thank yous.

MISSCOURTNEY20 · June 2010

Yes- we will be going to each table to say thank you and to also take pics. I'm doing a scrapbook with the pictures.

Amy_Justin · June 2010

Yes, we will stop at every table and take a picture and tell them thanks for coming. Our venue serves the head table first, so we will eat relatively quickly then head around to all the tables. Once we're done with that (it should be about the same time the guests are finished with dinner) we will cut the cake.

aerinpegadrak · June 2010

You need some methodical way of making sure you've greeted every guest. We didn't like the receiving line and didn't have tables to visit, so we cut and served the cake ourselves. I've also heard of couples combining the receiving line and the buffet line (e.g. they stood at the front of the buffet and greeted people as they went through.)

jlmeier5 · June 2010

i say no i'd say thank you after the ceremony then when its party time nothing says thanks like chitchat on the dance floor but i'm just weird like that! good luck!

M&R7111 · June 2010

I got this tip from my old Italian grandmother when I mentioned I wasn't going to visit the tables, but give a general "thank you" after dinner:

Many of her "generation" will hold the "envelope" at the table, and if you don't come around and give your time to thank them in person, they keep it!!

I plan to visit the tables with the guests who will be expecting this visit (great aunts, uncles, relatives of FI I have not met yet from out of town). The tables with my friends and immediate family, who I already know don't give a hoot if I come to their table, I will thank while we are grooving on the dance floor!!

Mmfoote · June 2010

I plan on doing the dollar dance. Which if you don't know all the men line up and pay a dollar to come dance with me, this gives me a chance to thank them for coming, nice to see them and so on. While at the same time the women are lined up to dance with your new husband!

It's been a tradition in my family and its fun to do, too!

M&R7111 · June 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_chit-chat_greeting-guests-table-table?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:14Discussion:86873954-376b-4de5-8dcb-a3e0f7faf2b4Post:796bb29c-d966-4fff-8e3e-e1f0b9aae336">Re: Greeting guests table to table?</a>:
[QUOTE]I believe that once the reception starts or once you have all your guest there it is a nice thing to take the camera around (if you want) and just say hi or thank you for coming...and even take a picture with them, that way they will feel appreciated in someway :) what we are doing is going around the tables and taking one picture with them, like a table group picture
Posted by lililuvsrocky[/QUOTE]

I like this idea! I know the photographer probably won't get everyone there in the shots. There are people I would want nice pictures of, and here is how I can get them!
My mother went and took pictures of family at the tables during my brother's wedding. She got some great shots of people who reciently passed like my uncle and my grandfather. Those were the last picture taken of them, that I know of. And they were so happy and all dressed up in them!

michelleutset · June 2010

That's a great point, thank you! I think that's what I'll do

ChanelShades · June 2010

I agree with PP that said yes.

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