How long should a bride and groom greet people ? When should a bride and groom have dinner with their guests?

The reason I am asking because my wedding reception is only going to be for two hours. Some where in between that where do you fit in the garter toss, cake cutting and flower bouquet toss? Please help me if you can. Thank you to all who do help me with this.

Sounds crazy...but I would look for a low priced wedding coordinator. They are out there, if you were in AZ i could recommend one who will work with people on a $1000 budget lol, and she doesn't charge a lot.

But, basically it would be someone to sorta sit down and make a game plan, and then they will keep the ball rolling for you. They'll be the one to announce "Time for the couples first dance" , "Get over here girls to catch the bouquet"

You can do it yourself too of course. Basically map it out, and don't be upset if you don't do it perfect. But think...Greet guests first 30 min, Eat for 45, (toasts usually happen during the eating...after everyone's sitting with there food), do garter toss & bouquet toss...15 min. Say good by...last 15 min. lol And you would literally write this down and try to remember to change subjects when the time is scheduled.

Since you are having a short reception, I would highly suggest to have a receiving line after the ceremony so that you can personally greet,hug and kiss all your guests.

Then instead of a sit down dinner reception (because you will not have time) have a punch and cake reception. First you should do the first dance, bride/father dance etc. Once that is out of the way do the cake cutting ceremony so that everyone can have cake, punch and any other snack goodies you have. You can socialize for a while. Instead of having dancing you may want to have a string quartet or pianist playing back ground music so that you can socialize with everyone. Near the end do the garter toss and end with the bouquet toss.

Good luck!

Right after the wedding ceremony, form a receiving line outside the church or wherever, and greet each person as they leave the church and you are done. Unless you have a huge crowd, this only takes a few minutes and then go to the reception. This way, every guest will have had a chance to congratulate you and they will not feel weird if you miss speaking to them at the reception.

In that case let the people come to you and greet you as they can. You won't have much time other wise.

At our wedding we had and hour just to greet the guess, we had the hall for 6 hours. We had 3575 guess at our wedding. I have 18 siblings and my wife has 8 siblings, plus the rest of the family and friends also.

At your reception either just before dinner, or after dinner and just before the garter toss, etc start take a few minutes to go to each table and thank each person. No one really expects to sit down and have a lengthy conversation.