Greeting Guests at Tables

I know what you mean. I was nervous when we did the table rounds. We just said thank you for coming, are you enjoying the food and we tell them they can take pics at the photobooth and tell the band to request a song they like.

We are opting out of table greetings. We are doing a first look so we can thank guests and socialize during the cocktail hour. Tgen we can have fun with guests during reception

We were able to socialize during our cocktail hour so that’s when we saw everyone.

Even if you choose to skip table visits, you should really try to say hello and thank each guest for coming. Whether that’s in a receiving line, table visits, at cocktail hour, however. I honestly think table visits are the easiest. You’re approaching them in a group so it’s less likely that one person or couple will monopolize all of your time. If you have a DOC, I would ask them to follow you at a distance so they can pull you away if the conversation is getting too lengthy. You could even ask your photographer.

We didn't do table visits. We had a receiving line to ensure we caught everybody.

We plan on making our rounds through tables during the reception, especially to talk to our older family members.

We finished all our photos before the ceremony and spent the entire cocktail hour with our guests! This let us skip the table visits during dinner so we could eat. 😊

When it comes time for my wedding, we plan on doing table visits because it seems like the most relaxed and chilled approach. Probably while everyone is finishing up their dinner. So it's not like we're going to do it randomly when some people may be absent from their seats for whatever reason, and then you may have to go back and talk to whoever you missed. I think if everyone's eating dinner, that's the best time to say thank you for coming.

If we were having a bigger wedding i'd probably have some anxiety over that, but we're only having about 75 people and I know all but I think 2 who are coming

I did but only for a short bit to say thanks for coming and took a picture with each of the tables altogether

Im going to try to do this quick. Something along the lines of “thank you for coming. See you on the dance floor”

I brought our photographer with us when we did our table visits so we could get pictures with each of our guests. We then included each guest's picture with our thank you card after the wedding. This helped move things along and gave us something to focus on as we spoke with everyone.

Yeah I'm going to be doing that. I'm going to go up to the tables and thank them for coming and saying that I hope they've had a good time.

We are doing a first look and a majority of the pictures beforehand so we can mingle during cocktail hour and enjoy the best food of the night (in my opinion) lol. Anyone we don’t get to during cocktail hour we will visit during dinner.

We're not doing table greetings because i've always felt a little awkward randomly showing up at someone's table while they're eating dinner. We're doing a Receiving Line as people enter the reception.

We did! We sat down & ate super quickly, then walked around to tables while people ate. It was really nice to greet everyone that way! No one said that to me but I'd respond something like "I am so happy with the turn out, we feel so loved!" and that's it.

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We did this too but in all fairness we only had two long tables of 25 people each, lol!! But I would make it a point to address EACH guest, especially anyone who traveled and your older guests as they may have to leave early. (On the other hand I have been at weddings where the older folks are closing down the dance floor so what do I know???)

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We had 3 long tables with 125 guests total. It was super important to us to greet every person at the wedding during dinner before we got up to dance, and we did! We had to shovel food into our mouths and didn't eat very much. But it was super worth it! We didn't have many guests leave early (other than 10 maybe) but when you're dancing you don't get a lot of talking time.

We are going to do table rounds while people are going up to the buffet/when they sit down from the buffet, and we'll be doing a group photo with each table. This will give us a reason to easily move on to the next (plus we want at least one photo of everyone there) and the photographers can help push us along so we don't get stuck at any table too long.