I hate having weddings in Sims 4 because they're always a disaster. Has anyone written a "Wedding Guide" that might help players like me? Here's the story of my latest fiasco.
Nicholas and Jeanne have been engaged for a while, and today was their wedding day. Jeanne will be moving in with Nicholas and his parents, so while playing Nicholas and his family -- they're the ones with the money -- he planned the wedding. Bride and groom. Check. Guests. Check. He invited 12 guests. Hire a bartender. Yep. Hire a caterer. OK. Hire a musician. Right. All looks good to this point.
The wedding is to be held at Magnolia Blossom park where many months ago I installed a bar, built a complete kitchen facility, and also put in a piano, so drinks, cake, and music should all be available. So far, so good.
Click to go to the wedding venue. The guests arrive, and I think I see Jeanne there. Thank goodness she's dressed in formal attire, but not a wedding dress. Nicholas decides to have a drink before the ceremony (trying to follow the little checklist) so he goes to the bar, but there's no bartender there. What happened to the guy he hired? Who knows. He hired another one, got a drink and thanked a couple guests for coming. (Another item on the check list.) All right, let's start this show. Click on the arch...huh? The only option available is "Fantasize about weddings." I hovered over the other options and learned that Jeanne was not there. Well, that's great. Had she left him at the altar?
No, there's no way that could happen. The text told me I needed to invite her to hangout at the current lot, but when Nicholas grabbed his cell phone, no such option was available. I tried clicking on the relationship panel but still had no option to call Jeanne or to invite her to her own wedding.
The only quick solution I could think of was to slip over to household management, add Jeanne to the household and have her travel to the park. When she arrived, of course, the "wedding" was no longer in progress. In order to get Nicholas and Jeanne married, I had to plan the wedding again, and once more hire everyone -- and spend all the money again. Good thing the groom's family has a healthy bank account.
Now, Jeanne changed into her wedding dress, and I steered Nicholas away from the bar. They exchanged their vows -- finally -- and I've got the pictures to prove it. (Just ignore the grumpy little girl in the scene. Let's pretend she was a flower girl who got tired of the long delay.)
With the ceremony over, it was time for another item on the checklist -- sharing the first slice of wedding cake. BTW, at this point there were two bartenders who seemed to be confused over who was supposed to tend the bar, but fortunately I saw a baker in the kitchen and yes, there was a white cake on the counter. Well, what was I supposed to do next?
I tried to get Nicholas and Jeanne into the kitchen but only managed to get her there. She put a wedding topper on the cake to make it official, but when she took the first slice, she didn't get credit on the checklist. Time was running out. The cake was already cut, so what now? While I was looking around for Nicholas, the baker made a hamburger cake, and I struggled to get Nicholas into the kitchen. By that time, Jeanne had wandered off. Another wedding topper, Nicholas cut the cake, and this time it worked.
Next, we all moved toward the piano to enjoy a little music, but no musician ever showed up. Great. All the guests, including Jeanne and Nicholas, were playing a silent version of musical chairs while they chatted, and that's where I saved and exited. I was so frustrated by the entire wedding process I couldn't even enjoy it.
Is there such a thing as a Sims 4 Wedding Guide? If not, someone should write one.
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Carl's guide to weddings
I find it's best to have the cake ready before starting and then keeping it in the inventory of one of the marrying Sims.
It might also be a good idea to have a stereo at hand, if the hired musician is a no-show.
When it comes to cutting and eating the cake, you could also try Call To Meal. Similarly, you can order drinks for a group of people, if you want to make sure everyone drinks.
The first wedding I threw wasn't very successful, apart from the couple getting married. But since then I've gotten the hang of it and I know who to invite for various needed services. Hope you succeed the next time!
I had two engaged Sims and didn't know what "elope" meant when I pressed it. To be honest that ended up being more of a fun option; they just had a wedding in the middle of a park on their own :P Can imagine the other Sims yelling "You did what!" when they got back from the date/accidental wedding.
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This would be great! I have had so many problems with staff during parties not doing what they're supposed to do.
I usually make sure a member of the family is available to do all the extra stuff so I don't have to deal with the staff AI. It's a bit cruel that the bride's teenage daughter ended up making the cake and all the rest of the food and then spent the rest of the evening entertaining the guests on the piano instead of enjoying herself at the wedding but hey ho, needs must (and she'd gotten a D on her latest report card anyway - that'll teach her to slack off.)
Thanks. Usually I just have my sims elope, but I wanted a nice wedding for Nicholas and Jeanne. I'll read the guide and hopefully I'll get a better understanding of what needs to happen -- and how to make it happen
But some problems can be fixed if you would ask ur bride/groom to move in together before the wedding.
That's gonna help a lot I think.
My sims' wedding problems always come with the wedding cake.
For example, nobody makes the wedding cake, invisible wedding cake(which seems to have been fixed by last patch but I didn't test it yet.),only one of the groom and bride grabs a piece of wedding cake etc. ...
It should be called as a nightmare wedding cake.Lol
Out of all of the weddings I threw, I was never able to get them to do that cute wedding cake interaction. It's definitely the cake that's a hurdle if no one in the household is doing those things in my case. I hope the next wedding you throw works out
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I'm truly hoping someday we'll have a "Get Married" game pack with lots of wedding dresses, a pre-designed wedding venue coded so that guests actually sit in chairs and watch the ceremony, options for music, a variety of cake styles, wedding decorations or themes, and new romantic interactions.
ETA: I'd love to have the "honeymoon" limo return, too. Oh, wait. We don't have cars.
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Sounds like you've had a lot of fun times in your game. I've yet to have anyone die during a wedding, but with my luck, it will probably happen sooner or later.
Also had lots of people walking THROUGH my couple during the ceremony.
LOL, yeah I've sims get married in some awful clothing before. I also had the 2 girls in the same bridal dress fiasco once, but that was back in Sims 2 many years ago. I was so embarrassed! I'd had two wedding very close together, and I forgot to change the first bride's formalwear option, so yep, she showed up at her friend's wedding dressed in white. I truly cringed when I saw it LOL.
I am SO glad I'm not the only one with wedding mishaps!
So now I never hire a caterer, I always make a cake or 2 ahead of time and keep it in either the Bride or Groom's inventory, never in the fridge as once a hungry guest ate the cake, without a topper early. I now always place the wedding topper on the cake. I no longer hire a bartender, I just use the drinks tray and/or drink fountain from Spa Day. I find the buffet table handy and it usually keeps hungry guests from going off and raiding the fridge. I usually still hire a pianist, I pick one of my own sims with a high piano skill, and still always have a stereo at the venue too.
The only thing I still find frustrating is if I have a wedding in a park or a home with a pool or hot tub, guests will change into their swim suits before the ceremony starts, then show up at the altar not properly dressed. Also, if I have a wedding at a 2+ storey home, I've started putting a temporary fence across the stairs, before the wedding to keep the guests on one floor. I usually like smaller wedding venues. I recently had one at a lounge and was so happy when the guests actually sat on all of the chairs, yeah, a first; then an uninvited bar patron walked in and stood right at the altar with the bride and groom, ruined all of the pictures during the vows!
Speaking of pictures...another option I wish we had was to hire a photographer now that our sims have that skill. The photographer could take a series of photos and mail them to the newlyweds later. Not sure how such an option would work LOL, but I wish it were possible. Dream on, right?
The thing is, a perfect wedding is impossible, a good wedding takes meticulous planning.
Before the wedding:
Planning the wedding:
The wedding:
Daaaaam. That sounds like almost as much work as a RL wedding.
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That's never happened to me at any event I've thrown so far.
I always succeed with weddings, birthdays and dinner parties. But house parties are always a disaster and at best I get bronze.