We're trying to figure out the logistics of greeting our guests early. Noodle's leaning towards a receiving line, and I'm leaning towards greeting them by rows as they leave the ceremony, but both of us are not committed to both and are trying to find something we can both get behind. So how did you (or are you) greeting the guests at your wedding?

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Re: How did you greet your guests?
July 10, 2010
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Basically we want to get out of there and grab a few quick pictures at the scenic overlook by our reception site, and get the guests to the reception site asap so they aren't standing around the park in their wedding clothes.
[QUOTE]We did a quick receiving line just to make sure we got to everyone and then did table visits at the reception.
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We did the same, that way we could touch base and see faces before running off for pics, and then we took our time chatting up every table during dinner.
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I despise receiving lines, and greeting by rows to me is just another form of a receiving line.
I do wish that we had done table visits as well though because there were definitely people I greeted in the receiving line that I never talked to again the rest of the night, and I felt kind of bad about that, even though it's normal and somewhat to be expected.
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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: How did you greet your guests? : We did the same, that way we could touch base and see faces before running off for pics, and then we took our time chatting up every table during dinner.
Posted by beatlesgirl25[/QUOTE]
Oh, and I should also specify that it was just H and I doing the receiving line, and we had 70 guests who had a 10 min lapse between ceremony and cocktail hour (for terrace breakdown/setup), so that's a big part of why we did a receiving line in addition to table visits. I am typically not a fan of these, especially when I'm stuck inside a church for 30 min while 200 people must shake hands with the entire WP, parents, grandparents, and the B&G before they can leave.
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I'm not a fan of releasing guests... like pp said, the venue can get stuffy and most guests and just antsy to stand and move around/leave.
We did a receiving line and despite having 200+ guests, it did work out well. Our DOC did a really great job of getting people through and specifically told WP to mingle and not just stand there in a line. It ended up where most of our age friends dispersed and the more older guests greeted us through the line. We caught up with everyone else at the reception.
The plan is table visits (We might want to actually "finalize" a plan soon, lol).
A big part of this is we're having the ceremony and reception at the same place and pretty much the only "logical" place for a receiving line is in this tiny hallway were it's just going to get clogged with people if we try it.
I don't really want to do table visits, but I don't really see a way around them ... we don't even have 100 people attending, so at least I shouldn't end up spending the entire night trying to greet everybody.
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I heard a suggestion to greet people as they wait in line for the buffet (if you're having one), though I'm not sure when YOU would be able to eat then. I think it would give you just a little more time to greet people, because it takes longer to pile food on a plate than just walk out of a church. Just a thought!