You’ve said “I do,” now it’s time to kick off the celebration! After the ceremony, your guests enjoy a cocktail hour before the reception officially begins. While light food, drinks, and mingling are a good way to pass the cocktail hour, it can help to incorporate additional entertainment during that time to create a memorable, fun experience for your guests. We’ve compiled a list of creative ideas to keep your guests entertained for an unforgettable cocktail hour, all while building anticipation for an amazing reception to follow.
Modern Focus Experience
Photo booths have become a popular addition to weddings for the fun, lighthearted entertainment they bring to your day. They’re an engaging, interactive way for guests to connect with one another and have some fun during the cocktail hour and reception. Modern Focus Experience offers a collection of open-air photo booths that are chic and modern, with on-trend backdrops and props. They also offer unlimited physical prints, high-quality digital images, and social media integration. Their physical prints ensure every guest can leave with a tangible keepsake to remember your day.
Modern Focus Experience’s offerings include an audio guestbook where guests can record a special voice message for you to always remember as an audio time capsule from your wedding day. Starting this year, they also offer the VogueBot, a dynamic video booth capturing slow-motion videos of your guests that are voguish, stunning, and trendy.
Including Modern Focus Experience in your special day will guarantee fun, laughs, and joyful memories for your guests, ensuring an entertaining time during the cocktail hour and reception.
DJ Lil Joe
With an ability to read the room well and keen knowledge in how to keep everything running smoothly and playing the right songs at the right time, DJ Lil Joe is a talented, experienced DJ and world-class emcee that will take your wedding to the next level. With over 25 years’ experience, Michael “DJ Lil Joe” Waldron has entertained over 4,000 crowds locally, nationally, and internationally, making him highly experienced and knowledgeable in what he does.
Renowned as an engaging entertainer, Michael knows how to get the party starting and keep it rolling throughout the entire celebration. During your cocktail hour when you want to build anticipation for the party to follow, DJ Lil Joe knows what to do. With the right music to help set the tone from your cocktail hour to your reception, you can ensure your guests are having a good time while celebrating you and your love.
Moss Custom Hat Bar
Moss Custom Hat Bar is unique because it is a full-service, interactive hat bar experience where you and guests can design premium felt hats with signature branding and decorate your hat with a curated collection of stylish accessories. Guests (and you!) can leave with a beautiful, customized hat that is unique to them, and a memorable memento from your wedding day. When you’re looking for an unforgettable, luxury experience to elevate the entertainment for your guests on your wedding day, look no further than Moss Custom Hat Bar.
Based out of Northern Colorado but traveling throughout the state, Moss Custom Hat Bar is committed to helping create meaningful, treasured memories that you and your guests will cherish long after the day has ended. We love how interactive and customized the experience with Moss is, and how passionate and professional their team is. You will love the fun that Moss Custom Hat Bar adds for your guests, easily keeping them entertained through cocktail hour and the reception.
Kelsey Shields Art
Kelsey Shields is a live wedding painter and live guest portrait artist, creating stunning renderings of you and your loved one on your wedding day, as well as portraits of your guests. A creative and memorable way to entertain your guests during cocktail hour and the reception includes live paintings of them by the talented Kelsey Shields. We love Kelsey’s stunning, colorful paintings and know you will, too. They are such a unique and special way to look back on your big day.
Kelsey Shields’ art captures your most beloved memories in real time through the lens of paint and canvas. Kelsey creates all of her works with an unwavering level of care and creativity. Each portrait ensures every guest feels seen and remembered. Including Kelsey Shields Art on your wedding day is a beautiful way to offer meaningful, artistic entertainment for you and your guests from cocktail hour to the reception.
Sunrise Silhouettes for Legendary Memories
What could be more unforgettable and unique than including sweet, gentle alpacas at your wedding? Sunrise Silhouettes for Legendary Memories does just that. They specialize in breeding and raising gentle alpacas that are shown compassion and love from the beginning of their lives, ensuring they grow into the kind, loving alpacas they are known as.
You can include these alpacas as part of your wedding day and create an experience that is truly memorable and sweet for your guests. The owners of Sunrise Silhouettes, Eric and Laura, work with you to develop a plan for including the alpacas that is meaningful and intentional, with legendary memories for both you and your guests sure to follow.
Red Rock String Quartet
Experienced in extraordinary world-class live performances, Red Rock String Quartet will elevate the entertainment at your wedding with hip yet elegant string quartet music. With Red Rock String Quartet, you can choose one of their thoughtfully created wedding packages or customize your own unique playlist, allowing you to design a plan for your wedding that best reflects exactly what you are looking for.
You and your guests will truly be amazed with how highly skilled and professional the musicians of Red Rock String Quartet are. They can play a wide range of music, from the classic, timeless works that are woven into wedding tradition, to more contemporary works that speak to modern wedding music. When you choose Red Rock String Quartet, you can choose the music style that you envision for your special day, ensuring that you are setting the right tone for your cocktail hour and reception. Your guests will undoubtedly love listening to the beautiful music of Red Rock String Quartet.
Are you ready to plan a spectacular, unforgettable cocktail hour for your wedding? We are sure these creative ideas will help elevate the entertainment during your cocktail hour and keep spirits high, so your guests are energized and excited when your reception begins. Your special day is all about celebrating you and your love, and these vendors will help keep the celebration rolling!
