is anyone else attending their own cocktail hour...?

We are, that's where we're having a receiving line. There's a gap between our ceremony and reception so we'll be back from photos in time to enjoy it. That's when we'll visit with people

We are doing a first look and photos before the ceremony so we will have the entire cocktail hour to mingle with our guests.

We are doing things a little different and as of right now don't plan on doing the formal introduction, however if we decide to, our DJ will just introduce us during the cocktail hour instead.

I'm Catholic so we unfortunately have one of those awkward long breaks between teh ceremony and reception. We'll have our photos taken then so I decided that we'll actually be waiting at the cocktail hour when everyone arrives and do a receiving line. Yes, they are kind of wierd BUT that means I don't haev to be obligating to go around to every table during dinner to say hello. And I get to be at cocktail hour!

We are only doing like 4 posed pics after the ceremony..so hell yes I will be at my cocktail hour! Haha

I hope we will be able to mingle at ours, for at least part of the time. I'm working on the timeline (which is stressing me out), and we are going to do a first look, then a few pics after the ceremony, then have a cocktail. I am trying to work on the timing so that we excuse ourselves from the cocktail party to take sunset photos, and the guests will go to the main reception area while we do that, then we can make our entrance. So it sort of works out naturally.

Were definitely going to try!

We will be doing a first look and trying to get as many of the bridal party pics done beforehand so that all we need to do is families. So we will miss a bit of the cocktail hour, but will hopefully join in before it ends!

I really just want to maximize the amount of time we have to spend with our guests.

We aren't planning on attending, unless we get our pictures done, but I doubt it.

I figure we'll get to about 1/2 of it. We're doing pictures after the ceremony, but we should be able to get them all in.

If we get done with family pictures, we will. We're paying for it, why not enjoy it?! We are taking most pictures before the ceremony. But there will be a couple pictures after.

If we get through our pictures in time, you bet your ass!

I am so torn on this... We have a lot of time between our ceremony ending and cocktail hour begins so we are going to a park to do our pictures and then still have to travel to the venue. We have a bridal suite there and we will be served everything from the cocktail hour and drinks. I used to think it would be great to hideout up there with our closest friends before our grand entrance. The more I think about it we can mingle and get most of the hello's out of the way. My mom is all for us hiding out before the entrance. Uggh IM so torn!

Yes, we plan to attend the second half since we're hoping to take the majority of our pics before the ceremony.

Totally! Everything is in one space, and we are doing a first look and a bunch of the pics early so, we will be joining everyone.

We went to ours! We were done pictures 15 minutes before it started, so we actually greeted guests as they arrived. It was a hectic hour and I didn't get to eat much, but the guests seemed excited to have more time to visit with us. Plus, I felt like we got more one on one time with everyone. We didn't make it to all of the tables at the reception (and we didn't have that many), but between the cocktail hour, dinner, and the dance floor we had individual time with all of the guests.

I hope we have time to attend our cocktail hour. FH was pretty upset when he found out he wont be getting any of the good appetizers we picked out for Cocktail hour! LOL

We were able to go to about half of our cocktail hour because it was an hour and half long. It was great to mingle and try a little of the h'ours d'ourves we picked out.

Oh and we were introduced into the reception along with the BP.

Our cocktail hour will be spent taking pictures and then FH and I plan on sneaking off back to the prep room at our venue to just spend a few minutes together after all of the excitement.

We're attending part of ours. Our ceremony, cocktail hour room and reception room are all next to each other. We're doing first look pics before the ceremony and right after the ceremony, we'll walk right into the cocktail hour space and spend about 30-45 minutes with our guests. Our venue is a hotel, so after 45 minutes me, Hubby, the MOH and BM will head up to our suite and give time for our guests to go into the reception space, find their seats and we will do our grand entrances.

My venue is putting portions of all the cocktail hour food in our bridal suites so we won't miss out. Cocktail hour will pretty much be our only time to take pictures so we won't be mingling with our guests then. Also, I wanted a few minutes alone with hubby so we can digest the fact that we are officially Mr. and Mrs.

Yes! We want to spend time with our family/friends that are traveling to celebrate with us. We'll get the majority of the pictures out of the way before the ceremony. I'm thinking that we will skip the introductions, but I've been to weddings where the bride and groom just leave a few minutes before the end of cocktail hour and still have the big introduction when everyone is seated for dinner. Do whatever works for you!