How are you greeting your guests? Receiving line or table visits??

Table visits, definitely.

We will do table visit we will have 10-12 tables.

Receiving line

I just don’t like receiving lines lol it’s weird but they make me nervous. We’ll be doing table visits.

We're doing a receiving line. The officiant will help us keep it short and I know a lot of our friends won't bothering waiting in line, which will help. I want to make sure I talk to everyone right at the beginning so I can relax a little at the ceremony!

I just went around to all of the tables during the reception and it worked out fine, the receiving line feels like the old days when people would slip the newlyweds money while saying hi lol

I think we're planning on both. However, we're going to do a reverse receiving line, so we're going to the guests and thanking them as they are dismissed by rows / seats.

Table visits will be the easiest I think!!

We greeted all of our guests during cocktail hour. It was great because we were able to sit and enjoy our dinners and not have to visit tables while our guests were eating. And we were ready to party when everyone was finished eating!

We have our venue from 3pm to 10pm we are actually starting our wedding with a 2 hour cocktail hour - then we go into our ceremony and then the DJ starts for 4 hours. We are having two food trucks for 4 hours & I plan on greeting my guests during that 2 hour cocktail hour - after that ceremony and you will find me on the dance floor!

Wow, I hadn't given thought to that! Thank you for posting, because otherwise I might have forgotten. I think something that will help is the dance with the bride (forgive me for not knowing the term for it), and we plan on mingling toward the end of cocktail hour.

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That's what we did! I got a ton of welcomes out of the way at the welcome party and it made the reception way easier!

We decided against table visits and receiving line. We don't want to spend our whole night going around to each table greeting people. We decided that we will talk to people throughout the night. That way my anxiety won't be through the roof. I get people overload really quick and having to greet every guest individually would really ruin my night. Instead we are doing a special speech for all of our guest.

Not sure if this is the same thing ... we're planning to have each table get up to take a picture with us at the sweetheart table before going to the buffet line

Receiving line - I know PP say it is outdated but it will work for us. Plus, we are having a welcome party for all of our family and OOT guests the night before so I am hoping to get to thank everyone and meet some people who I don't know (and vice versa for FH) there as well.

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I'm glad to hear this worked out for you with the welcome party - that is my hope with ours!

View Quoted Comment This sounds perfect!

Im going to sound really rude and entitled here but c’est la vie... I know it’s a courtesy to thank people for coming to the wedding .... but at the same time the cost of the plate per person, the alcohol, the entertainment etc is going to cost
us a pretty penny... I would hope that the person would just show up to help us celebrate the moment when an invite had been extended.

but that’s my logic 🤷🏻‍♀️

View Quoted Comment This is my favorite way of greeting everyone. We did it at our wedding 20+ years ago and my daughter and sil chose to do it too. It's quick and gracious.

View Quoted Comment Sure I'll show up, but not being greeted is really lousy. Do you really care that people showed up? The most recent wedding I attended didn't have a recieving line or table visits. We got to see the groom momentarily when a friend rounded him up plus his high school friends (my daughter has been friends with him since middle school) to take a picture. That was it. We only saw the bride from a distance.

View Quoted Comment Of course I care if they show up. We wouldn’t spend so much money on 6 hours if we didn’t care if that person showed up

shoot they are getting free food, free alcohol, free entertainment, free activities .... and a photo booth with no charge to them! Hell we don’t care if you don’t even bring a gift, just be present and celebrate with us.... like clearly we appreciate you if we invited you to share in this milestone, this moment with us.

If you dont accept my speech , that’s fine. Just eat the damn food... it was expensive