After the ceremony, your guests will be eager to congratulate you, and the best way for them to do that is if you make a 'receiving line'.
At the end of the recessional, the wedding couple, and often other members of the wedding party, stand in a line.
Guests leaving the wedding setting then pass by this line to congratulate, before continuing to the bar for a drink.
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The recessional is when the couple leaves the ceremony (page 16-32)