Bride & groom didn't say hi to guests

I know we tried our best to great and thank each one of our guest, but I'm pretty sure that we missed a few. We were pretty occupied for the entire reception with little time to drink, eat or much of anything else.

I went to a wedding early April and the only thing I recall the bride and groom not doing was thanking the guests. They did make sure to go to each table to greet everyone early in the night.

View Quoted Comment I disagree. Over the years (Am 65) My fiancee and I have developed many friendships. We have 400 people coming to our wedding. We figured it out and it would take hours to go to each table. We were wondering if we could not use a big screen to thank everyone but go to the tables of those that we knew went out of their way. We thought of a receiving line but that would be inconvenient for the guests. Also, we were going to write a personal note to each person and have it in their favor bag. We are open to any suggestions. I

I got married a couple weeks ago with our guest list at 55. My husband gave a really sweet speech before dinner thanking everyone for their time and explaining how much our venue meant to us personally and we were so grateful to have our guests there to share it. We also spoke to everyone throughout the evening. Much easier to do with 55 people. I was at a much larger 200+ wedding two days ago and never met the bride and spoke to the groom for a few seconds. No receiving line, no thank you and no visiting at tables. I don’t understand the large guest lists. It’s the most intimate day of your life why would you want to spend it with complete strangers????

At my first wedding we went to every single table before eating. Then we enjoyed our night. That's what I plan to do this time! I think its very rude to not thank someone for coming. I drove 3 hours to my cousin's wedding with my husband and parents. My cousin didn't even greet us. We had to seek out him (because that's how my mom is lol) but he spent most of his time out with his bridal party! Never even met his new bride. She literally glared at us. Not sure what's up with that.

I've been to a couple weddings in which guests approached the sweetheart table at their discretion. They talked and took photos. Then everyone hung out with everyone during the cocktail & reception. There was no formal receiving line or rounds. That seemed fine.

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"its the least they could do"

Girl. You weren't forced to attend at gunpoint. They paid for your meal and probably drinks, THATS the least they could do. This day is about them. Maybe they greeted most other guests throughout the dance portion of the night and just didn't get to you? Maybe they didn't? Who cares? You're at the wedding to celebrate their marriage, not get a pat on the back. This is majorly petty to be upset about.

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But you had time to open 150 envelopes/gifts within a half hour right? rude

Super rude lack of empathy lack of respect for the love one shows traveling costs gifts attire rent cars hotel vaca days, A sense of entitlement come over a lot of millennial rights in the next generation after zero acknowledgment of elderly relatives extremely hurtful Lifelong impression left by the bride and the groom side of the family still living and they came a couple of them left in titled ride spent more time cavorting with her friends and giving even a or 10 minutes acknowledgement Thank them daughter dead her son /groom I didn’t see him much after daughter died because the dad remarried didn’t see my grandson but one day a year until recently where he is older and has been spending more time but the new bride comes from money materialistic Barely said two words to us at rehearsal for a wedding and never thanked us for coming over for traveling to other events in previous couple years so I won’t be keeping a life insurance policy for them I will be canceling the $250,000 as a price to pay for being extremely rude and cutting people off essentially at weddings

I have actually. Most times outside of the receiving or pew dismissal that the couple does, I expect them to be super busy pulled in all directions. But if they can't even acknowledge guests for that simple step, then it is very rude and they should have just eloped with no guests.


I attended a wedding once..actually it was an evening cake reception following an early morning Mormon ceremony. So that was a cluster to begin with since it was so disorganized. But the groom wanted and tried to chat with guests, the bride was so stressed (she didn't enjoy herself the entire night) she put that to a stop so guests weren't allowed to speak to speak to them which made the event uncomfortable. Outside of that, nearly all couples make an effort to interact with guests, including individual thank yous at the reception.
This couple also didn't send thank you cards either afterward.

View Quoted Comment I disagree if you can’t make it all the tables for your wedding venue has a short amount of time then at minimum you should get up and thank everyone personally with a short speech not saying thank you for coming is bullshit and self-centered