Cocktail Reception The Night Before Wedding

[trbutler]

I'm thinking about doing a welcome cocktail reception the night before our wedding, I'm thinking about just doing a simple one hour reception with drinks and a few apps.  Then all the guests can go where they want for dinner.  

 

Is an hour too short?

[carmor2]

The last destination wedding I went to they had an hour long cocktail hour after dinner with just drinks. It was nice and they were able to mingle a bit and give people any information they needed.

[kellymiller]

That sounds like a good idea! I was thinking of doing a rehearsal dinner the night before with just family and bridal and groom parties then having a cocktail hour afterwards to let everyone know the details. An hour should be fine, then people don't feel pressured to stay longer than they might want to!

[JaxBchKay]

I'm doing an hour long welcome cocktail party the night before the wedding. I think that is just long enough for everyone to mingle and get the info they need they do whatever they like for dinner while the bridal party does a quick rehearsal. I also didn't want to pay the resort to pass out my OOT bags so I am giving those out at the cocktail party as well.

[marinah84]

I'm doing a dinner the night before, then will probably all go to a lounge area after. We can't really rehearse so not sure why it's called a rehearsal dinner by my wc lol

[stefadile]

I think that's loads of time, gives everyone the chance to mingle, and perhaps your guests will decide to have dinner together :-)

[ASAtobe]

I was wondering the same thing. I'm going to do only an hour and at first I thought it seemed to short. I guess if everyone still wants to hang out we can all go have dinner together.

[trbutler]

Would it be tacky to do it without appetizers?

[stefadile]

@@trbutler I don't think it'd be tacky, maybe you could do cocktails just before dinner, you don't want to get too giddy on that Caribbean rum :-)

[marinah84]

Not doing appetizers, since it's at an AI after dinner.