Magician during cocktail hour of brunch wedding

Hi there!

We’re doing a lunch wedding and have a 1.5 hour cocktail hour immediately after our ceremony at 11am. We’ll serve drinks (beer & wine + three signature cocktails), and have a mix of passes hors d’oeuvres and appetizer platters. The cocktail hour and reception will take place in the same room, a private room in a restaurant. There will be 65 guests, 6 of which are young kids. The guests are comprised of maybe two or three large groups (6+) that know each other, and the rest is basically couples or small groups (3-4 person) of friends. We won’t have dancing after cake cutting at 3:30pm.

We are mulling over options for cocktail hour entertainment. There is no band/DJ — we will have music from a playlist. We won’t have a photo booth bc the reception is in a restaurant, and there isn’t enough space to accommodate it. We will have a caricaturist instead, and also leave a Fuji Instax camera for guests to take their own pics with.

We were considering adding a magician to do closeup, strolling magic during the cocktail hour, but were afraid that some people might think it’s tacky (like for a kid’s birthday), even though these magicians frequently do corporate events in a similar way. The magician would mingle during the event and do some tricks, but he would be instructed to not be intrusive and he won’t be doing a stage show (so I wouldn’t be forcing guests to watch something).

My thinking is that this could be nice for the guests with kids or the isolated couples who won’t know others at the wedding — it will give them a fun common experience to talk about, maybe. And also given that the cocktail hour will sort of be the primary “entertainment” hour (since there is no dancing), I wanted to do something special. But at the same time, I don’t want to overengineer my cocktail hour.

Has anyone here had a magician at their cocktail hour and how did it go? As a guest, what would you think about a magician at a wedding cocktail hour (keeping in mind there won’t be dancing later, the hour would lead to the meal and that would be the end of the wedding)?