Receiving Line Vs Table Visits

We are dismissing guests to make sure we get to at least see everyone (in case anyone doesn't stay for the reception or something) but will also be doing table visits.

Walk around during dinner and say hi. you eat first so its usually easy enough. then mingle during the evening a bit. even after party for close friends so you can spend more family time during the wedding.

I hate receiving lines...they always take forever to get through. Andixlyn has the right idea, and its what we will be doing too...after dinner stopping to do table visits. If you follow the same order as when the tables were released, everyone should be close to, if not just finished dinner when you get to them

Im also going to say table visits.

My friend did a receiving line for her wedding a few weeks ago and in all honesty, I felt very awkward since I didnt know their families, (she had bridal party a part of it also, don't know if that's common or not since it was my first time ever seeing one).

I'm doing table visits so I can take sunset photos post-ceremony. I also requested the photographer to take photos of us at each table so we are sure to have a photo of every guest that attended. I want a good mix of photo journalism and posed photos

I feel like receiving lines are awkward...like...Here we are! Come by and say an obligatory hello! I think it's more fun to do table visits. It's not like you'll be able to sit still in your own reception, anyway. Haha. Besides, if you are sitting down, someone can always come to you.

I'm doing table visits. I personally think receiving lines are awkward.

I think it depends upon whether or not you are having a plated dinner or a buffet. If you are having a buffet then definitely visit each table. If it's a plated dinner (which is what we are doing with several courses) then we are doing a quick receiving line that transitions into the cocktail hour and then trying to briefly visit each table between courses.

You know your family best so you can always ask their opinion as well. If your family is full of a bunch of chatty people then I might nix the receiving line

@Truffle, I stood up in a wedding last summer and they had a receiving line right after the ceremony (DW, and the guests were on their way to cocktail hour) and the whole bridal party stood in the line, which was really awkward. I didn't understand why we were there and thought it should have been the bride and groom and their parents. Yet, all the guests came through and congratulated us which was REALLY awkward!

We're going to dismiss each row and the church, but we'll try to say hi to many people again at the reception. My friends just got married a few weeks ago and had 180 people as well; they did a receiving line and it took maybe 20 minutes at most. It wasn't bad, and most people who see them everyday (friends, family), didn't go through it.

We are dismissing each row at the church and table visits. Some people will only come to the ceremony then leave, such as my family Dr who considers us family, others will only show up at the reception. The rest of the BP won't be included in either, so only awkward for us to have to hug people we've never met. Like Granny Maybelle who keeps tissues in her bosom!

We are doing a line but only the FH, me, and his parents. Only because 90% of the guests are his family and haven't met a lot of them. This will at least give me time to get to know everyone's name.

We did a receiving line with just my husband and I and it was amazing. We had about 180 guests and there is no way I would have been able to enjoy the night if I had to walk around to tables to say hi. We already got stopped a bunch by people at the reception and I didn't get to dance as much as I wanted.

We are doing table visits. I want those first few minutes of being husband and wife to ourselves. Selfish? Maybe, but I'll make sure to say hello and chat with everyone during the reception!

I'm leaning towards the receiving line because we'll be the 1st ones out the chruch we can greet guest as they leave the ceremony seems easy enough.

We had the same amount of people you're expecting and we did table visits. It was so much easier and less time consuming than a receiving line. We figured it would take about 2 minutes per family/person to get through the receiving line and we spent about 2 minutes at each table, which had 8 people sitting at one table, so it went a lot faster than a receiving line. We went right to taking pictures after the ceremony (during cocktail hour) and we went around to each table at the end of our cocktail hour and said hi to everyone and it worked out perfectly!

We talked to everyone at the reception.

We did table visits ... The receiving line would have taken too long. The table visits were a little more personal and it didn't make any of our guests feel like they had to rush their well wishes on us.. It was perfect !!