Receiving Line for Wedding Ceremony

Your receiving line offers you the opportunity greet and thank your guests for witnessing your marriage. As a rule of thumb, it is best to limit the ‘line’ to the bride and groom and their parents. Having others in the line tend to slow things down.

A number of considerations are:

1. The number of guests;
2. Wedding photography: before or after ceremony;
3. Travel distance to reception site – if different than ceremony; and
4. Weather.