WordNet
reception line
n. a line of people (hosts and guests of honor) who welcome the guests at a reception party
Usage examples of "reception line".
Abruptly no more people were making their way to the reception line and Killashandra let her cheeks relax, rotating her head on her neck, wriggling her lips and nose in a very undignified manner in order to ease the muscles.
She smiled, nodded, and let herself be passed on down the reception line.
The men in her life had passed through as if they were part of a reception line, little more than acquaintances.
So this is the hand that drove the knife home, she thought as Bass passed on through the reception line.