I had way too much fun building this and creating the story for @lilsimsie ‘s shell challenge!

Magnolia is somehow the only person in Forgotten Hollow to get her garden to grow. Can you figure out her secret to keeping all the plants alive?

My WIP for the night, the Overlook Hotel from The Shining!

Shell is mostly done, going to start working on the inside and the hedge maze!

It wasn’t going too bad at first but it quickly quickly devolved. Its 14hours later and my wedding is still struggling to go on without everything done. 

A lot of the same that I’m seeing everywhere else, but I’ll make a list of every thing that went wrong.

I managed to get the sim of honor, flower pal & ring bearer down the aisle with everyone seated...however they wouldn’t sit back down again even if I chose the “guest take seats” interaction again. I thought, “well...that’s not too bad I’ve seen people who can’t even accomplish that.”

Then it just got worse...

Took about 3 times to get my first sim, Sylas, down the aisle. When he finally got to the end, I tried to send his future husband, Lane, but sadly Sylas couldn’t even wait until Lane got to the start of the aisle before he ran off. 

When I finally got Sylas and Lane both to the end of the aisle, his cousin decided it would be a good time to stop sitting and stood directly in the middle of the aisle.

Not only that, but like everyone else has said, the officiant doesn’t work at all. If I even chose the option with the officiant, Sylas and Lane just sat there staring at each other not finishing the vow exchange and then eventually just walking away from each other.

It took about 5 times for me to choose the option to exchange vows (without officiant) for them to exchange vows still. And all the guests kept playing musical chairs and talking through the entire service.

I will say, once they were actually exchanging the rings, all the guests paid attention and cried and cheered when they kissed. I was also able to get them to throw rice after exchanging vows.

I did the spousal kiss but it didn’t register at all. Same thing with the toasts, guests wouldn’t gather for them, when I requested the sim of honor to do one they wouldn’t, and when Sylas or Lane did one, it didn’t register as completed.

I bought the cake when I got to the lot because I had seen a lot of people buying it prior and it being spoiled or not showing up for the wedding. I tried to store it in the fridge on the lot just in case, but I guess you can’t put wedding cakes in the fridge??? Thankfully, it didn’t spoil, but the cake cutting interaction doesn’t work at all. Even if it did it wouldn’t matter because the guests started eating it as soon as it was placed down anyways.

Finally, the one thing that seemed to work for everyone else was the slow dancing, but Sylas and Lane kept coming together for 5 seconds and then stopped dancing, not even going through the whole interaction. I also at one point had Sylas appear to be slow dancing alone with his arms extended around some invisible figure (I wish I got a picture). Eventually after about 10 times the interaction finally did fully play out and it was really sweet, but it took a long time to get there.

Finally, the wedding event completely broke the UI in my game, I couldn’t switch between my Sims and when I did, the moodlets were locked in between sims and kept telling me they were just eaten by a cowplant even though there wasn’t one on the lot? This could be my fault because I have some mods installed, but I did check that all the ones I had were updated to be compatible with the most recent update.

Sorry that was so long winded, and I’m not mad that I bought the pack mostly because I like the BB, CAS & Tartosa. I knew that it the wedding functions were virtually unplayable before buying, so I knew what I was buying into. But its honestly unacceptable that this pack was released in this condition, and that its been DAYS and no one on the sims team has acknowledged it yet. I don’t think its their fault, they’re most likely overworked, underpaid, and on a tight timeline, but at least some acknowledgement of “hey we know the pack is severely broken, but we’re working on a fix” would be nice. 

At this point, its my opinion that when (if) they do fix the pack, they should refund everyone who bought it and release it as a base game update. I know that won’t ever happen, but with all the controversy, and the condition it was released it, not to mention that some of the core functions are *supposed* to be things that work in the base game anyways, I feel like that’s the right answer.