Is My Wedding Stories playable after the patch?

I know everybody's experience is different, but I've done three weddings since the March 30 patch and it's nearly FLAWLESS. A couple of little issues/annoyances, like the Sims of Honor not sitting back down after they walk the aisle and chatting (with each other) through the ceremony, but the guests DO WHAT THEY'RE TOLD and I am just amazed. I don't know what they did, but I suspect they listened to some of the modders who said "They should have done it THIS way" and actually did it that way. I mean with the broadcasters and such. Now they ALL go where they're supposed to, don't get stuck to their chairs, don't block the aisle, and they "hear" the call to gather even if they're far away. I'm as amazed at how good it is now as I was appalled at how awful it was before.

I have a bakery "Jeffy Cakes Bakery" on the gallery, and I wanted to make & sell Wedding cakes. Everytime I put them on display pedestals they "go bad" and spoil in no time! Do you have to refrigerate wedding cakes, or is this a fluke? Thx

"JeffreyKnight;c-18089517" wrote:
I have a bakery "Jeffy Cakes Bakery" on the gallery, and I wanted to make & sell Wedding cakes. Everytime I put them on display pedestals they "go bad" and spoil in no time! Do you have to refrigerate wedding cakes, or is this a fluke? Thx

I just put some wedding cakes in my sims bakery. My Baker has the fresh chef trait, the reward for the culinary aspiration. It allows Sims to make food (including cakes) that doesn't spoil. This way it is possible to display wedding cakes wherever you want.

I was wondering if you must have the exchange of vows and the rest of reception (cutting cake, eating, toasting, dancing on the same lot. I have a lovely little church in Brindleton where to marry my Sims but there is not enough place for the rest of the entertainment.

@Ziafar, no, there's no requirement to have the reception and the ceremony on the same lots. Heck, there's no requirement to have a reception at all even if you don't want one.

I did the same thing in my game after getting MWS, where I set up some smaller venues (including a small church) just for the ceremony and redid some of my larger venues where I did Weddings before the pack to not include the arches, because now they are just venues for the reception/dinners.

@Stormkeep So what do you do? You do the vows part and than everybody travels to the reception venue?

@Ziafar, You schedule them as two different events entirely, so it is up to you to decide how that will work. The Ceremony event is named "Wedding Ceremony" while the Reception event is named "Reception", so it is, literally, two different events.
What I do is schedule the ceremony ahead of time on the calendar, and then on that day, when all of the ceremony activities are completed I x-out to end that event (rather than wait for the timer to run out). Then I travel with as many guests as I can bring along to the reception venue and start the reception with the phone once there.

The reason I do it that way is that traveling 'with' the guests to the venue first means more of them will be there already when I start it. You could use the phone to just start it from the ceremony venue, and everyone would travel automatically, but it takes longer for everyone to get there when you do it that way.

@Stormkeep Thank's a lot. This clarifies the thing very much for me. I do not already have the pack, but since many of the bugs have been adressed I might get it as an Easter present. (with lots of chocolates too I hope!)

Wedding Stories are on sale now. I am more interested in the new world than new wedding functionality. After all of the patches, would you recommend buying the pack?

@baroosha
It depends on how you like to play. I'm more of the master builder type and I love the game world with its Mediterranean flair, it's just gorgeous plots. But the weddings themselves only work sometimes. Either my Sims aren't disciplined enough (they already have extreme characters), or all the patches didn't really help. I wish we could have the world but turn off the gameplay. But that's how they say: "You can't have your cake and eat it too".