{"id":662,"date":"2012-05-03T13:30:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T13:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themanorrestaurant.com\/blog\/?p=662"},"modified":"2023-01-03T14:45:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T19:45:34","slug":"wedding-greeters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wedding-greeters\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Wedding\u2019s First Impression: Greeters, Champagne and D\u00e9cor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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First Impressions<\/p><\/div>\n

When guests arrive at your wedding ceremony venue<\/a><\/strong>, they\u2019ll be taken by the beauty of the site, and a celebratory tone is set immediately by the smiling, friendly greeters standing at the entrance. It\u2019s a new trend to ask close relatives or friends to serve as your official welcome party, greeting the guests and pointing them toward the inside or garden wedding<\/a> <\/strong>location. They may hand out your wedding<\/strong> programs and also let guests know where champagne is being served \u2013 in the case of a garden wedding<\/strong> taking place on-site \u2013 or even where small children may be taken for sitter service during the ceremony.<\/p>\n

The immediate recognition of greeters puts guests at ease, eliminating the \u2018where do we go?\u2019 concerns that some guests may have when they arrive at a sprawling wedding location<\/strong>. With the guidance of your greeters, guests enter the wedding site<\/strong> ready to enjoy themselves, soon met inside by banquet site<\/strong> staff members bearing drinks for their refreshment.<\/p>\n

How to Select Your Greeters<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>Choose at least three special friends or relatives, ideally from your and your groom\u2019s sides so that someone at the wedding venue <\/strong>entrance can recognize arriving guests. If you have an extremely large guest list, choose four greeters to eliminate a line forming at the door.<\/p>\n

Choose guests who are naturally friendly, upbeat and good conversationalists who have no anxieties about talking to strangers.<\/p>\n

Instructions for Greeters<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>Ask greeters to stand just outside of the wedding venue <\/strong>entrance, on the steps or at the base of steps, so that they\u2019re immediately seen by arriving guests. At an outdoor wedding<\/strong>, they might stand at a point where the pathway leading to the ceremony begins.<\/p>\n

Make it a firm rule that greeters are not to text, check their iPhones, or be distracted by their dates. Their full focus must be on their greeting tasks.<\/p>\n

Ask guests to dress in accordance with the wedding<\/strong>\u2019s formality. Since these are representatives of your wedding, it is perfectly okay to set a dress code, such as cocktail-length dress or suit.<\/p>\n

Let greeters know how many wedding <\/strong>programs to give out, such as one program per couple, or one program per guest. If your wedding budget <\/em><\/strong>is limited, or if you\u2019re having a green wedding<\/strong>, this top wedding idea<\/strong> eliminates waste.<\/p>\n

If you expect guests who do not speak English, it\u2019s smart to choose a greeter who speaks, for instance, Spanish or Italian for a welcome greeting guests appreciate.<\/p>\n

Give greeters full information on where essentials are, such as the coat check, restrooms, handicap access to the ceremony site<\/strong>, so that they may instruct guests who request these locations.<\/p>\n

Remember to give greeters information on directions to the reception site<\/strong>, if it is different from the ceremony location<\/strong>. Having a stack of printed driving directions is always a smart wedding idea<\/strong>, even if guests decide to just program the reception address into their GPS or smartphone as they exit your ceremony location<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Wedding<\/strong> greeters should remain at the entrance to your wedding venue<\/strong> until the last possible minute before your wedding ceremony<\/strong> or reception begin, so that late-arriving guests are welcomed and directed.<\/p>\n

Michael Mahle, Director of Communications, Pleasantdale Chateau<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When guests arrive at your wedding ceremony venue, they\u2019ll be taken by the beauty of the site, and a celebratory tone is set immediately by the smiling, friendly greeters standing at the entrance. It\u2019s a new trend to ask close relatives or friends to serve as your official welcome party, greeting the guests and pointing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,71,113,72,101],"tags":[484,80,483],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bright-ideas-for-your-wedding","category-wedding-ceremony","category-wedding-decor","category-wedding-receptions","category-wedding-rehearsal","tag-wedding-ideas","tag-wedding-party","tag-wedding-planning"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t