Greeting Guests...is it rude?

We aren't doing a receiving line at the church, they will be excused one by one by an usher at the church

Instead during the reception we're gonna go to each table and thank every one for coming.

I think if you do that when it won't be rude, but not saying anything at all would be.

Heck no to a receiving line for us. If you want to see me, I will be on the dance floor. See ya there.

No plans to do a receiving line here. We'll greet guests at the reception.

^ What Lizz said.

I'll be sure to say hi to all guests at the reception but I'm not wasting precious photo time by doing a receiving line.

No receiving line for us, either. Guests will go into the golf club for cocktails while we go take some pics. We will be sure to greet everyone once we are in the reception.

LIzz - I am with you. I hope that I will get around to talk to everyone, but they know where to find me. I'll be the one in white.

I should also clarify that we are doing a DW, so I will be seeing everyone at the Welcome Reception and our guest list is about 85 people. But regardless, I hate receiving lines. I hate going through them and I refuse to have one at my wedding. They also are not personal in any shape or form. It's much more personal to go around to the tables at the reception.

I ate my dinner and enjoyed it like there was no tomorrow :-)

We didn't want to have a receiving line but it just somehow happened. But you absolutely don't have to have it.

Can you do a receiving line on your way into dinner? My cousin had coctain hour in one room and then had a receving line when people were entering the dining room.

It's rude to not greet and thank all your guests personally and speaking from experience I only had 85 guests and I would have spent my entire wedding night going table to table (borring and un-fun) instead we got it all done assembly line like and out of the way in 30 min(ish) Then I got to enjoy my wedding.

I mean you go table to table and Aunt Marcie is gone to the bathroom, and Uncle Jim is on the dancefloor. If you can find a way to avoid this do then all the things you have to do are out of the way. You say a speech and dance and mingle withw hoever you want for as long as you want.

I didn't even think about the receiving line. I guess I was planning on greeting everyone informally during the reception. Kind of a table-to-table deal.

We sort of had an informal receiving line. After we left the church ourselves and the wedding party were outside and then everyone came out afterwards and we just started talking/hugging/getting congratulations before we went off and did formal family pictures.

We also went around and said thank you to everyone during our reception, especially those people we missed at the church.

We are not doing a receiving line either, we will make our rounds at the reception after we eat and have a drink in our hands!

I always find receiving lines to be awkward, everyone is hugging eachother, even when you dont know half the people in the line (as a guest that is, I sure hope I know everyone at my own wedding), its just weird, who do you hug? who do you hand shake? to me the whole process is long, and awkward!

I think it depends on how many people you have invited. Like for us we have 220 so we are doing the receiving line in hopes to get a majority of the hellos and thanks for coming done.

We did a receiving line with just the bride and groom, went way faster and my grewt Aunt ida doesn't need to congratulate my MOH on her BFF getting married lol

Yes ours only had us and our parents, no point in whole bridal party