Successful wedding without much planning?

I play rotationally too, and I haven’t done one yet either. But, I play rotationally with aging off ( almost all the time ), and I don’t have a set rotation time or rotation order. I just play who I want for however long I feel like playing them, In my main rotation many of my sims already know each other so I don’t think a friends list will be too hard for me.

I think however when I have one, I won’t plan too many things at the wedding event itself. The more things you plan the more things that can go wrong. I have read that you can only do one event per day, and the day either ends at 12 midnight or 2 am I heard someone say, but I don’t know if they were right. I plan to move an artist and a photographer into the household to paint and take a picture of at least the bride and groom. In reception areas I plan to set up some picture spots. I also plan to set up a bakery early and use a person who has the cooking aspiration reward so that the cakes never spoil. Not sure about anything else yet.

elopement, elopement all the way
find scenic spot, set some pretty clothing for your sims formal wear and you are pretty much ready

some of the worlds also have those built in wedding spots if want arch piano and whatnot

or romance festival is also kinda handy for that

if it must be formal event mws style I encourage home lot where you can lock all the doors and contain sims in area and theres no randomized townies to mess up everything

but also small lot with like 2 areas close to each other is good i think

like small area 1/ room for arch aisle seats
small area 2 /room 2 for dancing food and drinks and music and speeches and whatnot after party things (close enough sims really don't have to be routing anywhere far for anything)

toilet be probably useful somewhere close by too so they don't adventure for that

and you'll either want indoor venue or good weather probably unless its whole vibe that the weather was awful that day

make/ buy cake before event and put it in sims inventory you will need small dining table for it also

as for outfits i really find it easiest if you just set it in cas for formal and change your sims to that outfit when event starts

if want flowerpals or such i suggest you put those sims temporarily to your own household to have full control of those sims so it'll be easier to control them

clubs from get together might also help with making sims know people they want as guests or to organize the actual event

aaand yes autonomy off. otherwise it be zoo

if all fails then... idk guess we will just have to accept that it was one weird wedding

oh and you may want photographer sim in household to capture the lovely wedding or well, the disaster

"Simmerville;d-1003374" wrote:
I play rotationally, meaning I normally don't find time to spend simdays on planning a wedding. I like the wedding features of MWS, but I realize that I will need a way to throw better weddings *without* lots of planning. I understand that many of you have just as much fun with the planning as with the event itself. But perhaps some found smart ways to throw good immediate weddings, too?

I have a few community lots set up with arch, seats, a seated dining area and space enough to add extras like cakes and dance floor. I guess setting the guest list might be my biggest challenge, because it takes so long unless your family and fiends are already in your sim's relations panel.

Any hot tips on throwing a decent but perhaps simple wedding including some of the MWS features? How do you normally do it if you have to skip most of the planning?

If you have some nice lots that function well for this purpose, your job is halfway done. Also, you need to not be too fussy on the decorations and colour scheme. You can set wedding ceremony in one place and reception in another place so if you want to make sure your guests don't have distractions you can hold these at different venues. For good immediate weddings I have Vegas style chapel with a photo booth. :smile:

One way that I have started to do it is that I have the ceremony and reception be two separate events.

I use the ceremony to take pictures and micromanage my Sims, Only have the people getting married and a photographer. Favorite picture is of the couple walking down the aisle after they exchanged their vows.

And then the reception is a party and I’m not really fuss about completing all the goals. Just food, dancing and maybe a toast/or cake cutting.

Thanks for input! I don't care a lot about goals etc, but I want to benefit from the many wedding features, mainly for good pictures and to make the wedding event a bit different from other parties. I think I will lower my shoulders if I focus on either the ceremony or the party. All can of course do both, but I think I will skip many features in either section of the event to make it both easier and quicker. If the couple prefer the party bit, I won't bother a lot with ring carriers and flower pals etc.

Also, I've been using poses to lock the guests to their chairs during the ceremony, and I'm even filling up the room with deco sims (cc) if needed :)

"Simmerville;c-18181604" wrote:
Thanks for input! I don't care a lot about goals etc, but I want to benefit from the many wedding features, mainly for good pictures and to make the wedding event a bit different from other parties. I think I will lower my shoulders if I focus on either the ceremony or the party. All can of course do both, but I think I will skip many features in either section of the event to make it both easier and quicker. If the couple prefer the party bit, I won't bother a lot with ring carriers and flower pals etc.

Also, I've been using poses to lock the guests to their chairs during the ceremony, and I'm even filling up the room with deco sims (cc) if needed :)

Now there is a useful suggestion. I think I will do that too for the next wedding where I want to take pictures.