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Party Set up

Plan Party in any lot in your world.

Set up chairs in front of where the wedding service will mainly happen.

Have all invited guests “relax” using the sit mod script interaction. They will do this for two hours without getting up. Note: They will have the throw rice interaction once they get up so be prepared for that. I don’t consider it a bug as I think they should all be seated for the actual wedding interaction.

Have your sims do the service, and you can further have them kiss, makeout, do more romantic interactions with everyone watching. The most important part is being able to kiss further during the service.

Using poseplayer add on, all you have to do is click on the sims you want to pose for your screenshots. I personally only install pose list compatible poses, I have several standing and sitting story telling poses that will last me my entire playthroughs. This part is up to you, but I wanted to include it as an easier way to create memories.

Showtime Camera: If you have 3+ sims in your household and two of them are getting married, have the other sim record the exchanging of rings to keep as a memory and watch throughout the sims life and future generations. You can also do this for NPC weddings and give it as a gift after the wedding.

The limbo mod is a scripted object that I’ve only ever used for weddings and children’s parties. They don’t serve much use to me during adult parties where everyone is drinking booze and going crazy. So this is just a fun interaction you can have your wedding guests line up and do with the bride and groom.

The slow dance mod is autonomous but also you can set your sims to dance to to classical musical in a more romantic and Waltz-esque style. I change to classical so the interaction will pop up, then quickly change the music to custom or something else more modern and fitting to the theme of the wedding.

The nondefault cakes has the slice cake interaction. You can transmogrify custom wedding cakes from one of those cakes. 

The Cooler mod is if you would like to serve your own meals at the wedding. I make a 3 course meal, enough for all the guests, and enough tables and chairs. Using the set the table mod, I set all the tables and chairs with the first part of the meal. Then the second. The third course is the cake as the desert, so I add the cake to a very pretty decorated table somewhere in the front or center of the eating area. The sims will gather around and wait to grab their cake slices. This serves as a secondary part of the wedding party. AKA another activity altogether that can be done.

Note: You can also use the take out mod to order fancy meals and keep them in your fridge before the party, I normally get the food 2 days in advance.

Using the buyable bunch of gifts mod I call the sims getting married in the household to open the presents. The gift giving overhaul fixes the gift giving system so that your adult sims will receive more appropriate gifts for their age group and from all EP’s except ITF. Protip: I also use this for house warming parties and birthdays <3.

You can do most of these things for NPC weddings. They will cut the cake themselves.

So you’ll have the wedding vows section, the eating section, the dancing section, and the fun section. Using EA features you can hire a pianist and a bartender for your lot.

Putting this altogether and making sure everyone is having a good time within the time restraints of party setup (calling the services, seating everyone, making the 3 course meal) can be roleplayed as a mini game for wedding planner sims. You can use the browse social media interactions, and take pictures for your blog to increase performance with the Event planner custom career. Just make sure you have linked this career to the EA business career using Sonyaju’s UC at city hall. And with NPC wedding mod available you can now actually be a more active wedding planner professionally.

Alternatively, using NRAAS traveler mod, you can do a destination wedding. I recommend smaller vacation worlds. Suva Diva Resort comes to mind, and Nilxis’ vacation world packs. EA’s France and Monte Vista. I have a greek themed world. You can do a winter indoor wedding, etc. Just invite all the people you want to attend the wedding to your household. Then use the travel services mod and invite them all with you(City hall > Nraas > Traveler > Allowable > Friends must be actually friends or they won’t show up as options). I’ve playtested this as they were all in my household at the wedding destination world, I would simply create a realistic resort like hotel with several rooms for all my guests. You can use MC to make them unplayable, they will be in your household you just can’t click on them or make them do things, they will have fun and go to lots autonomously on their own. You can invite them out for bachelor parties, beach parties, go for a drink, etc. Note: They may still be in your household when you return home so just move them back out into their designated households, you can use money cheats to readjust your household funds.

And I almost always send my newly weds to a new world for honeymoon vacations. I spend a lot of time building up my small vacation worlds so I try to get as much functionality as I can out of them. I usually send them right after the wedding. If it was a destination wedding, I don’t because that kind of was their honeymoon, so I’ll pause the vacation and stay there a bit longer just so the newly wed couple can enjoy their time together before having to return back to work.

Note: You can transmogrify the wedding arch to a rug or floor object if you don’t like the arches, even custom ones, or cannot find an arch decent enough for your specific build