Thank you all for your replies. The dog had been alone for about an hour while we were at dinner. I had to go home for the dessert to take over and waited some extra time, hoping the dog would have had his excitement and settled down. He is huge - probably 80 lbs and only 4 months old. He is in obedience training and can sit and lie down on command. But he is not expected to stay off the guests. His biting is puppy biting, but he's huge so he breaks skin. His paws are as big as my fist. He is slobbery (he's a mix of New Foundland and Burmese Mountain Dog).

As I entered he was preoccupied and I was glad but after a few steps he was bounding over to me. I was carrying the desert with both hands and before I could walk the 10 steps to the table, the dog has his slobbery face in my butt, then jumped around to put it in the front (sorry if tmi). By the time I sat down, I had a blob of dog slobber about 3" on my slacks. I felt filthy and couldn't wait to get out of there. I like dogs. Puppies are especially cute. But at 80 lbs and nearly 3 feet high, he needs to be leashed or held onto or something.

This is a relative. Another relative has 2 large dogs - boxer/pit mixes I think. Both of them walk all over my feet, climb up on the couch and get in my face and lap, lick my legs if they do stay on the floor. I completely avoid going there because to carry on a conversation means bobbing and weaving to get away from the dogs, or to get the dogs out of the line of vision between me and their owner.

Oh well. My choice to make since they are also 'love me, love my dogs' kind of people.
I guess I should be glad they don't have that attitude about their spouse... lol