reception
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To avoid transportation hassles around the city, they also rented two double-decker tour buses to ferry guests from the ceremony to the reception.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 3, 2026
Guests are said to have signed confidentiality agreements and will not be allowed to have their phones during the ceremony, which is expected to begin with mid-afternoon cocktails before a reception going into the night.
From Barron's • Jul. 2, 2026
The reception is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. and expected to end between 2 and 4 a.m.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2026
Those films all found an audience despite their unfavorable reception.
From Salon • Jun. 27, 2026
“I don’t suppose Reyna has a cell phone...? Nah. Never mind. She’d probably have bad reception on a pegasus flying over the Atlantic.”
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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