Reversing the receiving line!

*facepalm* Please, for the love of pizza, do not subject your wedding party to the receiving line. It's bad enough when the bride and groom do it.

Also, so that means there is NO break between ceremony and reception? No pictures, no reason to leave the room/ flip the room? Yea...what?

Never do a receiving line, they are so awful.

Just "Receive" them while they are eating or dancing or talking... plenty of time to touch base with ppl while you're at the reception.

O.O really? I've been told that a receiving line is better than trying to stop and see every person during the reception.

Maybe this explains it a bit better

Ceremony

inside photos

outside photos

guests line up inside

DJ announces us as we enter from outside and dance down the line of guests, stopping for handshakes and hugs.

We all sit and eat!

You're having a relatively group of guests (we are estimating about 70 as well), there should be no problem "mingling" with everyone at the reception. FH and I were kinda on the fence about it, but we asked our folks and they all voted mingle over receiving line. =)

I dont think lineing up the guest will go over well. I vote mingle as well.

Receiving lines SUCK. Just make a point to get to each table during the reception that shouldn't be too hard.

Since your numbers are so low, skip the receiving line ad just make a visit to each table during the reception. No one wants to stand in line and wait to be spoken to for 5 seconds. If you visit every table throughout your event, you can spend a little more time with your guests and it won't take nearly as long as you think it will.

Okies. Thank you very much for the feedback

Agreed- receiving lines are awful- as an alternative, we are doing a dollar dance, BUT instead of keeping the $$ we are doing donations to a few different organizations in honor of a few loved ones that wont be with us.

Another idea you could try that is similar to this would be to release your guests yourselves after the ceremony. My aunt and uncle did this at their wedding and it worked out great. Here's how it works - After the ceremony you have your traditional recessional where you all walk back down the aisle. Then, instead of your ushers releasing guests one row at a time, you and FS come back in and stand at the end of a row. You get to hug/speak to each guest. This will move faster than a typical receiving line because it is just you & FS, not the whole wedding party, and your guests will be eager to exit the ceremony, so most won't want to chat for very long.