Married Ladies..Were you able to talk to your guest?

We had about 150 guests, no receiving line and we didn't attend cocktail hour.

After we went thru buffet line I sat to eat and DH walked the tables (mostly the ones that were his guests). A lot of people came by while I was eating.

After we ate we did father/daughter dance and I had time to walk around to most tables. I missed some of his tables (co workers I didn't know).

We thanked everyone during the cake cutting.

4 hour reception and generally had time to talk to everyone briefly.

FH and I will have nearly 400 guests. As soon as we are done eating, we will be making our rounds to say hello and thank you to EVERYONE. I know its possible! My sister got married two Summers ago and I made a point to test my abilities - I said hello to every guest on our side of the family and a good amount of the people from BIL's family. If I can do it with this crazy guest list... anyone can do it

We got almost everyone. We were taking pictures during cocktail hour, and tried to make the rounds during dinner, but we had to go eat so we finished going around the tables after dinner. There were a few people who left without us getting a chance to talk to them, but my MIL made a point of bringing the family members who left early over to us to say goodbye,

We were able to make all the rounds 2X! What helped was that we did first look pictures so we were around for the cocktail hour. We also had a receiving line right after the ceremony. We also made sure to be on the dance floor which also provided great face time with guests.

We went to 15 tables, about 7-10 people at each one, and we talked to every single table. We did it during dinner as husband and I ate first (before everyone else got in line). Then when everyone else was eating, we went around to say hi when we were done with our food.

Best way I can recommend doing it because if you think you're going to eat AFTER everyone else, you're not going to eat. People will be bugging the crap out of you if you do that way.

I was then on the dance floor for the rest of the night after we said hello to everyone at their tables.

Yes, we had a little over 100 guests and during the reception which was 5hrs; we went table to table. We also took photos with some of our guests. We went clockwise around the reception hall, it's seem as though our guests were anticipated us. I think it's a must, it's etiquette!