NEWLYWEDS-please help

I have a question. There is a huge controversy about having a receiving line at my wedding. I am trying to get as much info as possible as to the amount of time this takes.
Could you please let me know
A - did you have a receiving line?
B- how many guests were there?
C- how long did it take?

We only have 1 hour between the end of church and the beginning of the reception. I want to use this time for pictures, but family members feel it is really rude not to have one. Please advise.

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had one, had 137 guests, married at the hall, we did the receiving line with hust me and DH, and the maitre'd cut it about half way through all the guests so we could take photos

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We did not have one. To be honest I have not been to a wedding in NYC that had one. So, I did not think twice about not doing it.

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Posted by Kee

I have a question. There is a huge controversy about having a receiving line at my wedding. I am trying to get as much info as possible as to the amount of time this takes.
Could you please let me know
A - did you have a receiving line?
B- how many guests were there?
C- how long did it take?

We only have 1 hour between the end of church and the beginning of the reception. I want to use this time for pictures, but family members feel it is really rude not to have one. Please advise.

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you may get more reply if u
post it on the newlywed board

JMO

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Didn't have one, went right from ceremony to cocktail hr..we took out photos before the ceremony at my aunt's house. Nobody cared and everyone had a blast.

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It would have been really hard for us not to have one as one just sort of forms at the back of the church. We could have slipped out but we wanted to take more photos.

I dont remember how long it took but we got thru it fairly quickly as we had limited time.

My suggestion would be to keep the line just to the bride and groom. THe more people you add to the greeting line, the longer it takes.

We also got some of our favorite photos outside of the church asking everyone to join us for a group photo. So that was a worth the time for us.

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We did not have one. We spent the time taking pictures so that we could greet our guests at the cocktail hour.

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We did have one, I am not sure exactly how many people came to the church but I would guess around 85-100 and it took us about 20 mintues!

JMO but you really dont have time if you only have 1 hour between the ceremony and the reception. YOu may want to explain to your parents that if you cut out the receiving line at the church it will give you more time to mingle at the CH b/c with only an hour, if you are taking the majority of your pics at that time, you will probably miss a lot of the CH if you lose an additional 20 minutes for the receiving line!

Remember there is NO way to make EVERYONE happy, worry about yourself and your FH! Its your day do it they way you want to remember it!
It all goes by toooooooo quickly!!!!

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I didn't have one...

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We did not have one at the reception but we did have one at church. We had about 60 people at church and it took about 20-25 minutes and that included picture taking outside the church too.

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We did not have one. We were married at our reception site and our guests were immediately led into the cocktail hour. We took pictures immediately following the ceremony and greeted our guests at the cocktail hour. We were also announced at the beginning of the reception and did the table rounds.

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A- we had a receiving line
B- we had 90 guests at the church
c- it took about 15 minutes, including my pictures in the doorway between the reveiving line & our exit.

but, I could have lived without it! My veil got screwed up & I had pink lips on my cheek

Thank god for photoshop!

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Posted by bellepoque

We did not have one. We were married at our reception site and our guests were immediately led into the cocktail hour. We took pictures immediately following the ceremony and greeted our guests at the cocktail hour. We were also announced at the beginning of the reception and did the table rounds.

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This is what we did as well.

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We had a receiving line and only 1 hour also. Remember not everyone goes to the church and also people skip the receiving line. It took us about 20 minutes after the church. Not bad!