our ceremony is at 1:30 in selden and then our cocktail hour is at 4 in aquebogue (about 45min away). our ceremony will only be about 30min... so technically we can be at our reception hall by 3 to take pictures and then attend our cocktail hour at 4. we aren't stopping anywhere in between the church and the hall to do pics... the only place i really wanted them done would be out of the way, so the photographer said we could do our e-pics there instead. he said he'd need about an hour to take pics at the hall. FH and i were both looking forward to the cocktail hour... him for the food, me because that's my favorite room in the place and i wanted to enjoy it... plus you can get a lot of 'hellos' and 'thank you's' done at the cocktail hour so you're not so rushed around at the reception... but i will get to see it all set up beforehand and someone could always bring us plates of food up to the suites... does going to the cocktail hour kind of take away from your 'grand entrance' at the reception? i can't make up my mind... what are you girls doing?
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we are DEFINATLEY doing CH. We purposely timed our pictures before the ceremony so we could go to CH.
us too - I want to say the bulk of my hello's there so I can ENJOY the rest of the wedding!
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we are DEFINATLEY doing CH. We purposely timed our pictures before the ceremony so we could go to CH.
Same here I don't want to miss a second of the Wedding, we paid enough $$ and the time flies I want to enjoy everything.
yes i am going.. and yes we paid enough $$$
me too- i want to enjoy every second of the wedding- plus the food at the cocktail hour is SOOOO yummy- I cant wait to eat !
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YEP!!! we love the food that we picked and we want to try all of it!!
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we are not, we are taking pictures after the church & wed like to spend some time alone, our bp suite is huge & we will have all the food int here too, plus , our wedding is on a friday, so im sure the chruch will be missed by alot of people , so id like to make that grand entrance, & not have anyone see us b4,, JMO Im getting married at a place that has the name castle in it , im the princess that day,, & fh is my knight in shining armour, awwww
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I'm not, we're taking pictures and spending some time alone together before the reception.
Ditto! We stayed in the suite after pics to relax, stuff our face and have some alone time berfore we partied all night long. It was great.
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Unfortunately no. We got married at our hall and both of our parents didn't want us to see each other before. Therefore we were not able to see each other before the ceremony to take pictures.
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We are def going! We are taking pictures before..the church is at 2 so we have from 3-7 to take pictures
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im going to my cocktail hour - the food is too good to miss - def go, its old fashioned and silly not too - its one less hour to spend with your guests !!
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I'm definitely going to my cocktail hour. I told my photographer that pictures have to end before hand.
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ABSOLUTELY!! We plan on taking picutres right before.
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I'm getting married at VC also and the CH room is my favorite too! We are taking our pics before the ceremony just so that we don't miss our CH. Bringing up plates of food to the bridal suite just didn't sound good enough to me and FH
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im definately going to ours. we have no break between ceremony and ch and we are taking all the pix before. i going to say hello to everyone there and at the reception dance, dance dance
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I refuse to miss it!
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absolutely, would not miss it for the world
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I'm not, we're taking pictures and spending some time alone together before the reception.
Ditto! We stayed in the suite after pics to relax, stuff our face and have some alone time berfore we partied all night long. It was great.
we'll be doing the same!
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I'm not, we're taking pictures and spending some time alone together before the reception.
Ditto! We stayed in the suite after pics to relax, stuff our face and have some alone time berfore we partied all night long. It was great.
Same here, and I don't have any regrets! I actually loved the hour with just the bridal party and us hanging out, eating, drinking, laughing. And I loved our bridal room, it was so cozy!
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We're going - we may miss 10-15 minutes of it for finishing of photos, but we're going! FH wouldn't miss the food for anything!!!!!!!!
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We plan on skipping the cocktail hour (but having them bring the food to our bridal suite of course!) and spending time along with FH! The bridal party will def be in the cocktail hour.
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We are doing our pictures before hand so we can go to our CH! We hired a steel drum band and can't wait to hear them.
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No we are going to take our pics during the CH... we will join the party at the reception
