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Happy Homemaker29 wrote:
> "Jeanie" <taureanmoon@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:hOyOe.274067$_o.257184@attbi_s71...
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>>The only thing I can think if is that you might have the arch placed in
>>there backwards and the sims can't get inside it to get married. Are
>>there plants close by? Is it right at the edge of the lot or is the
>>ground unlevel under it?
>>
>>Jeanie
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> (I know some groups don't like top posting, and some don't like bottom
> posting, let me know this groups preference and I'll try to remember.)
Personally, I don't care for top posting. It breaks up the "flow" of a
thread for me. And it drives me nuts when people don't leave part of
the original post when they reply. If I have my newsreader set to only
display unread posts, then I haven't got a clue who they are talking to
or what the hell they are talking about. But that's just me.
Everybody's different. And I usually chop a reply up (like this one!)
and add my two cents where they do the most good. LOL
Now
> onto the issue at hand. It may have been backwards, but I wasn't sure. I
> don't think anything was blocking, maybe one of the trees were too close,
> I'll delete it temporarily and try again. I've had 3 wedding partys so far.
> Each one has bombed tremendously. Normally my sims have decent parties, but
> for some reasons her guests were going upstairs to entertain themselves. I
> cured that by deleting her front, and only door. LOL After the party was
> over, I put it back in. Do you cut the cake before or after the "get
> married"? Since they had nothing better to do with no "get married"
> function, I just had them cut the cake anyway. LOL My poor sim keeps
> bombing her parties and bawling afterwards. I want to try your tip now but
> if I get married without my daughter in audience, she'll be so irritated
> with me and ask why all day long driving me nuts, so it looks like I'm
> waiting till morning. LOL Thanks again for the tip.
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> Happy Homemaker
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Some hints for a good wedding party, as I've experienced and learned
through experimentation:
1. Before entering the lot, use the cheat code "intProp
maxNumOfVisitingSims 20" in the neighborhood screen. This way, you will
get to invite up to 20 people. Some won't come, for whatever reason,
but you'll have a good crowd. Slower computers might not function real
well with a lot of sims on the lot, but having as many guests as
possible helps insure that they will chat with each other and help the
party go better. If the maid or gardener happen to be there, they'll
change into formal wear and attend the party, too, jumping up afterwards
to continue their work.
2. Have the person with the most friends do the inviting, and only
invite people who like the sim doing the calling.
3. Have all the family sims on the lot in as good a mood as possible
and try not to throw parties when there are babies or toddlers about.
They will invariably need attention right at the crucial moment and
screw everything up.
4. You don't need to bother with the buffet table if you have the cake,
nor will you need a bar and bartender if you have the champagne bottle.
5. Make sure you have enough tables and chairs for all the people at
the party, and enough toilets to go around. You can even build a small
cabana-type building to house a few of the bathroom stalls to avoid
bottlenecks. You can sell them back and tear it down afterwards and if
you do it before midnight, you get a full refund. Actually, all you
need is one wall to attach the stalls to.
6. Have a stereo nearby and turn it on BEFORE the party starts so
guests can dance.
7. Set up the wedding arch, tables, chairs, etc. before inviting the
guests. Make sure that the arch is facing the right way (green arrows
to the front) and that there is at least one square clear on all four
sides of it. Don't worry about getting your family into formal wear,
they'll do that automatically when the ceremony is about to begin.
Chairs for the guests to sit in and watch the wedding aren't necessary,
but they look nice. If they don't have chairs, they will simply gather
around the arch and watch.
8. Have a separate table for the cake and another for the bottle of
champagne. Make sure there is lots of room around the champagne table
because there will be a number of sims clustered there all through the
party. That bottle just never seems to go dry, so you only need one
bottle, no matter how many guests you have. It's like the Wedding at
Cana where the water turned to wine. <g>
9. After the guests are invited, have the sims go outside to greet as
many of the guests as possible, but cut short the chit chat or time will
run out on you and everybody will start milling around finding something
interesting to do, like pouring soap in your fountain or watching the
game on TV.
10. Make either the bride or the groom the active sim, click on the
arch and choose "Get married." The other partner will get into wedding
duds and join them there. Even if she/he jilts the hopeful sim, they
will do it under the arch. A successful wedding party has to include an
actual marriage. (Likewise, a successful birthday party must include
someone making an age transition. Sports parties and house parties are
more "iffy" and that's where your bar and bartender, buffet table, or a
big screen TV come in handy.)
11. After the wedding takes place, if you have other controllable sims
on the lot, have one of them go to the champagne bottle and make a
toast. All sims on the lot will suddenly have a glass in their hands
and the drinking will start. Sims like champagne. There is apt to be
one toast after another once you get them started. If all you can
control is the bride and groom, have one of them get the nectar flowing.
Though, usually one of the guests will start hitting that bottle on
their own.
12. If no one has started dancing yet, have the bride or groom start
dancing with a guest. You can cancel that action as soon as the other
sims start dancing. Usually, there will be at least one sim dancing
throughout the whole party.
13. Now's a good time to cut the cake. Have the bride or groom do it
and the other will join them. They'll feed each other cake and then
take a piece and go sit down. Your idea for removing the house doors is
a good one because that will keep all the guests in the yard where they
belong and not inside the house eating chips at the kitchen counter or
puking in the master bathroom. But make sure they all have a place to
sit (preferably at a table) or they won't eat.
14. Allow the time to tick by and don't try to say goodbye to any of
the guests. Just mingle and schmooze here and there. At the end of the
party, a limo will arrive to whisk the happy couple away for a one hour
honeymoon (at some motel with "nap rates" apparently) and as soon as it
arrives, the guests will leave on their own accord. When the happy
couple return, all their needs will be green and they are ready for some
serious woohooing. LOL
I've not had a bad party yet, using these or similar guidelines. Good luck!
Jeanie
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