Greeting your guests - what to do!

I think i am going to do table to table, i have my photographer for a limited amount of time so i need to take advantage of it

My friend that got married last week went from table to table, everybody got up and gave her a quick hug and she moved on. I asked her if she ate, but we didn't talk more than that. Our table was the local table though of people that the bride and groom see regularly, so she might have spent more time with others.

I think we are going to mingle during the last part of our cocktail hour.

We went from table to table and we spent a lot of time doing that, which was really nice because we live in Alaska now and our friends and family are back in the lower 48 and we don't see them often. We were served first and we ate fast and then went from table to table.

Is your wedding larger than 100 people?........If you're doing table to table, please for the love of your guests sanity do NOT, I repeat DO NOT have a buffet! Yes, people I'm still bitching about this one. A friend did tables with a buffet for nearly 400 guests....and we missed her while being in the lunch line! This is the thing that I will remember MOST from her wedding.

We are doing table to table. Which I know is going to take more time than I would like, but my mom hotly complained when the bride didn't do this at the last wedding she attended.

@Honeylife that's a really good point! We are having a "taco man" - a company that comes and cooks the food on the spot. So I guess it would be like a buffet. We are planning on having around 140 guests, maybe less depending on RSVPs. We will for sure greet guests (most likely table to table), but I'm concerned about the time it takes and how it fits in with the timeline.

We are going to be doing table to table. Receiving lines are so long and boringn for the guests...and for the bridal party...LOL

If you are going table by table and are having a buffet, make sure that the buffet line is table by table too. Like this, you'll be at a table after the table is already back from the line. Of course you might miss somebody if they are up to go for seconds, but I think you might always miss somebody (bathroom breaks etc).

We are going table to table. Considering there will only be about 35 guests it shouldn't be a problem, lol.

Receiving lines are passe', I'd make rounds

We're struggling with this too. I HATE receiving lines but we're having a backyard wedding with yard games, so I feel like people are just going to move between the bar, food, and games all night. I originally planned on going table to table, but I doubt everyone will be seated long enough to greet everyone. Think about how structured your wedding is and go from there. Best of luck!

Last year I went to a friends wedding and she did not go table to table or do a receiving line. Instead to maximize her time enjoying her night, she only went to the tables that had grandparents or important family members and the rest of us just joined her out on the dance floor. Her husband and herself really spent ALOT of their time on the dance floor with guests so they had a blast and everyone I was with had more fun dancing with her than waiting for her to come to our table. After that wedding my FI and I decided we are going to do the same.

We are planning on standing by the cake and having the MC announce to come and greet us by the cake and take pictures and then right after we will cut the cake

I don't like receiving lines, either as a guest or as part of the wedding party (they feel very passe to me). They can be convenient, and it really depends on your reception set up, but I'm not a huge fan. We'll go table to table. I've never been concerned about my food getting cold because the bride and groom were taking the time to say hello to me. You do have to time it right if you're doing a buffet, but we're doing a plated dinner so I don't anticipate an issue.

We are doing a receiving line just because it's tradition in my area

We're going table to table. We're not doing a first look, so we only have the hour for cocktail hour to do pictures and in order to make sure we have enough time for those we're skipping the receiving line.

We are doing table to table. I don't mind receiving lines but I haven't seen it done very often in our area, usually it is table to table.

This might sound stupid, but if you go table-to-table, do it together. I've been to two weddings now where only the bride came to our table. At my cousin's wedding, I never actually met the groom!

I went table to table.