Wedding Wednesday: Why We Chose A Receiving Line

For us, greeting and thanking each of our guests was really important, and having been a guest at weddings in the past, we knew that going table-to-table during dinner, you're bound to miss someone.  Since we chose not to do a first look and would be taking our portraits during the cocktail hour, we decided to do both a receiving line and table visits to make sure we saw everyone at least once.  After the wedding ceremony, we lined up with my parents and Mike's dad for our little receiving line.  We chose not to include our 10-person bridal party because we thought that would take way too long, and how awkward is it to introduce yourself to 180 people who are friends with your friend's parents?  Instead, our bridal party lined the steps of the church and practiced their bubble-blowing skills.  (More on that in a little bit.)  While the idea of the receiving line is traditional, I switched it up a bit, having us lead the line, even though technically my parents were the "hosts."  This made it so much easier to introduce our parents to people only we knew and really worked well for us.  

After guests saw us, our fantastic greeters gave everyone bubbles for our "grand exit."  Bubbles were the perfect choice!  They were eco-friendly (unlike rice or confetti) and there wasn't any clean up afterwards (like with rose petals or sprinkles).  To be honest, I think the groomsmen had the most fun out of anyone with the bubbles.
Just FYI, do not buy bubbles from Oriental Trading.  There were ugly, white bar code labels that took up 3/4 of the bottle on all of the purple ones and for FIVE HOURS on the way up to Maine, I scraped labels off each of them.  I only ruptured like 6 of the bottles and cut my fingers about 8 times haha.

Funny story, our favorite photo from the "grand exit" is from my college friend, Brenna (@bdfeel11).  How fantastic is this angle and the ladies' hair?!  Thanks so much, Brens!!  I love that you can see her taking it in the photo above, too.

Before we loaded up in the limos, we took portraits with our bridal party outside the chapel, and I will be back with those next time!

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