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

View Quoted Comment You are free to spend any amount of money on things, just know that actually taking the time to say thank you to every guest is the best way to express your gratitude

We created the guest that we're not coming to the reception. Everyone else we created at the table during dinner. Of course we talked to a bunch of people after the wedding because we had an ice cream truck and everyone gathered with us!!

We ended up doing an impromptu receiving line. It wasn't the plan, but we had a second line at the end of our ceremony and when we came back the band was playing and everyone was coming past us, so we just did it then. We'd planned on going around and greeting each group of people.

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So I'm just now seeing all of the replies! I didn't realize that my method of giving a special speech to my guest would offend. LOL!! Wow! Do I appreciate everybody coming out to celebrate us? Of course I do which is why I stressed so much and spent so much MONEY planning this event (Our parents aren't paying for anything). I'm also having a 4 day Indian wedding as well, so I will be interacting with the same 300 plus guest for 3 days and 1 day of interacting with 150 guest (whom I don't know they are friends of my finance parents). Plus each guest will have an individual hand written card sitting at their seat telling them Thank You! So yeah for my mental health and for me to be able to enjoy myself at my wedding I decided against greeting each individual guest.

Dee my advice would be to do whatever makes you happy and comfortable and if it's different from tradition then Great and if it goes along with tradition then Great! Don't let anybody tell you what you should or shouldn't do! Plus you know you're family and friends and look how much time and money you have invested into this event! Don't let people make you feel bad because you aren't following the norm or "tradition"! Girl create your own tradition and live you best life that night and for years to come with your husband!

We'll probably do table visits. A receiving line makes me anxious...

Table visits, for sure. I don't really like receiving lines and it just seems to take up too much time.