How much time for a receiving line?

I hate receiving lines...they take forever! For a smaller wedding they work, but 200 is a lot of people and would probably take longer than the 15 minutes you are allotting. I would just nix the idea and do table visits after you finish dinner

I wouldn't do it unless you're trying to kill time

Maybe dismiss by row instead? It'll probably take a minimum of 30 minutes to get through that many people (probably more tho)

Trust me if it was up to me I wouldn't be doing one! The parents want to be able to get all the "congrats on marrying her off" and "it was beautiful" even though they haven't helped much with planning or finances. Maybe I can usher people along lol.

Wow for 200 guests it will DEFINITELY take longer than 15 minutes. I'm alotting 30 minutes for 100 guests...

We are going to say something alone the lines of for those that want to greet and share your love with the couple feel free to join them in Room x...so not everyone has to join us if they don't want to. We plan on doing a table by table visit too. But our ceremony space is being turned over into the coctail hour so at least having 15 mins of greeting time will help some with that turn over.

We are dismissing guests instead of doing a receiving line, so that a) they don't have to stand and wait, b) the bridal party doesn't have to be included (most of whom won't know most of the people), and c) so we can set the pace. I have timed it at the last few weddings I have been to, and we're planning 20-30 minutes for 250 guests. We will do table visits later to actually talk, but this ensures we at least say 'hi' to everyone.

Yeah we are going to walk around after we eat to do table visits too. I don't want it to be a formal thing where everyone has to wait in line to say hi, we have all night. Maybe I should just plan on 4:15 so but hope that it goes quicker.