Mingling with Guests during cocktail hour?

Yes you can and no it would not be weird at all. I actually would love to join my guest for cocktail hour, however I'm hung up on not seeing FH until the ceremony.

I don't think it would be weird but I am also not seeing FH until I walk down the aisle so we are taking pictures afterward.

I do think there's something special about everyone seeing you for the first time in your dress as you walk down the aisle....

We are taking the pictures before the ceremony, & our main reason was so we can spend the cocktail hour with our guest instead of taking pictures ..

A lot of our guest coming to NJ from NC, FL, ME, CT so we want to spend as much time with them as possible.. & we are leaving at 3:45am next morning to airport on our honeymoon, so we wont be able to have breakfast with them & hang out with them next day..

so yes definitely spend time with them, they will be happy you are there & that time will pass by so quick, you will want to spend every minute there

Not weird at all - our reception went until almost 4am and we still didn't get as much time as we wanted with everybody! So if you have all your photos out of the way, I would definitely do it.

I've been to lots of weddings where the couple was full-on mingling, guests were seated for dinner, and then the WP and couple were formally introduced. Best of both worlds!

We mingled a bit at our cocktail hour, although we used some of it for family photos and guests were being seated as we got there, so mostly we were mingling with closer family members and our WP. That was fun though too! A little bit of party time with the peeps before full-tilt wedding mayhem began.

Our tradition is for the Groom to pick up his Bride from her parent's house. We weren't going to see each other before walking down the isle but it's too important to skip it.

Thanks for all the advice ladies! I think will mingle a little after some family pictures

I dont think that it would be akward. We are doing our pictures during the cocktail hour but if I had the option, I would love to join them for the cocktail hour.

We are also doing our photos before the ceremony and we are definitely going to be there for cocktail hour! We're paying for the food and drinks and damn we want to enjoy it! Plus it will be a good opportunity to get photos with extended family and friends in a nice setting before we sit down to eat.

Not weird at all! We will definitely be at our cocktail hour!! We are doing a "first look" and taking most of our pictures before the ceremony.. plus, we're paying for the entire wedding, so I don't want to miss the cocktail hour that we're paying for! haha

We're doing photos beforehand too so we can enjoy cocktail hour. Getting married this Saturday! It's finally here! So excited. Oddly.... Less stressed now than I was months ago! Yay!

Oh I guess I misread the question. YES to post-ceremony cocktail hour mingling! I think we are going to do most pix before the ceremony so we can mingle with all our friends for the full cocktail hour.

Def not awkward! We are taking pics before the ceremony so we can enjoy the cocktail with our guests....I just went to a wedding this past weekend and they were at the cocktail having a blasts with all the guests walked around to everyone

Well, we are definitely not taking pictures before the ceremony (We are traditional and don't want to see each other). However, it is an April wedding in OR... so it will be horrible weather. Our venue is very small, so we will have to take pictures inside... don't know how that will work....

I am guessing the guests will travel to tables and the bar during cocktail hour and we will take pictures in the ceremony space... maybe.

Anyways the bar will open for 1 hr before dinner. We are only having wine and beer though, but people will drink and we will go away (somewhere) for a bit...

I don't want to mingle with guests, I want to go away with my new hubby and be introduced as Mr. and Mrs. Hayes right before dinner!

We will be attending our cocktail hour as well! We are taking pics before hand so we can hopefully get a chance to talk to everyone but the end of the night. So we will start the mingling at cocktail hour.