Wedding lot fun

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Last night I woke up too early and decided I would skim around looking for nice CC for the wedding lot I was building, especially some good windows.  And here are the results.



I wound up having *two* wedding lots in Bluewater; the community lot for actually having the wedding, and a bridal shop I'd been thinking about installing.  The wedding lot was built from scratch and gave me a lot of headaches with the windows at first.  Of course, you want to make sure everything works right, and you don't want to test that for the first time when you're actually throwing the wedding, so I'll need a sim to go there and see if everything's ok.



Yo, Gilbert?  Quit spying on that trash can.  That can't be too interesting. 

First stop: the Complete Bride.



This lot includes a lot of recolors and HChangerl has it linked on her site, Retail Sims.  I really wanted an excuse to use it, even though honestly it is just taking up space.  Most of it's decorative, some of it works nicely, but for some reason it's a hideous barn red color.  It's so glaring that I put up a windbreak of trees between it and the wedding place, and then I thought better of it. Let's repaint it.  Better yet, let's FROST it.

Much better.




Gilbert seems to be having a hard time figuring out what he's doing at a bridal shop.



Go talk to that nice lady behind you.



This is, of course, townie me.  Long story--I made myself a placeholder, and then I figured out how to townify myself, and then I made a townie version of me; and then the placeholder version of me married Flavius, had five kids, and --unbelievably--LOST weight.  It got confusing, so finally I let Ruby make me over and give me facial surgery so I wouldn't mix myself up with myself. 

Gilbert:  I am not wishing to be the bride, alors.



Don't worry about it, Gilbert.  I just need you to run around and test stuff for me.  By the way, I've seen some of the townies you have crushes on, and NO.  One of them is Pigtails, and she's just a pain in the neck at businesses, though she isn't nearly as bad as Nina Caliente. 





Curiously, Gilbert must be one of the few playable Romance Sims my Goodygirls *haven't* dated.  Never got him on a matchmaker drop, nothing, which sounds reasonable until you realize that I had a sim do Fifty First Dates and we even got that Family Sim reporter who looks as though he's come straight off the farm.  Tell you what Gilbert, you do a good job for me, I'll even consider downloading Cass Vetinari for you.





Gilbert:  LE YAY.



OK, the magazine rack seems to work ok, and it's kind of a nice recolor, too.  The custom sinks have got to go.  They are recolors of the Grand Trianon set, which I've always found a bit unreliable.  The cake display--nope.  Can't even interact with it, and it's full of custom stuff, like pies from Exnem Sims (which are under the "appliance" tab, I kid you not) and a bunch of wedding cakes from Pronupsims.  Feh.  Those look pretty and they don't work at all.  So all that will be cleaned out and replaced.  Go pay for the magazine, Gilbert.



Dear sweet Mother of Wright.

I've never seen that cashier before!  I guess there are so many cashier stands at the Complete Bride that a few more were spawned.  Whoo, can you say, "you are probably getting sent to University for some lucky spare, unless you're Romance?  Even if you *are* Romance?"



Yay, that explains it!  I'm very, very bad at recognizing faces, but I'm pretty sure I recognize this one.  This looks like the Remington Harris face.  I must like it, because I keep marrying different versions of it in over and over and over. Ratna has this face with tanned skin, blond hair and blue eyes.

OK, even if I'm wrong and his face explodes, I'll still consider sending him to University, if only for being some kid I never saw before. 



This guy, on the other hand. . . I've never seen a hairdresser before.  Seriously, I've just never been to any of the lots where they have one, so I was trying to figure out "who the heck is the pirate?" I thought the salon chair would be nicer with a pink recolor by DJSSims.

I didn't feel like having Gilbert have a makeover.  I basically think he looks ok the way he is.  So I had him give some townie a makeover instead.  I was expecting a disaster, because he's very sloppy and has practically no cleaning points, but. . . .



Not too shabby!

Hairdresser guy:  Hmph, *anybody* can do a simple cut and blow dry.  Coloring, now that requires the professional touch.



Oooo-kay, looks as though Gilbert can't reach the clothing rack.  He can reach the other one, though.



Gilbert:  And I am comprer the tres cher four hundred smoking pourquoi?

Oh, just needed to make sure that function was working, too.  I promise I'll family funds you the money back.

This was a total lie.  By now, Gilbert is practically broke, but I don't feel guilty about it, because he spends like a sailor on shore leave whether I'm controlling him or not.

Next stop:  the lot where I'm actually going to throw the weddings.  I'm not giving it a name right now.  Well, it has a name, but I decided it's dumb, so I'm going to change it.



I couldn't find a two-story glass window that would work with the wedding arch, and then I found all these two-story glass windows, and then one thing led to another and I. . .

I am going to move the windbreak of trees, though.  Those are there to screen out the hideous red bridal shop and I don't need them now that it isn't red and hideous anymore.



it's kind of weird that Gilbert approaches it from the wrong side.

Every community lot brings out the desperate when they're opened.



Flavius:  NOW can I Meet Someone New?  There's got to be *someone* who's New.  Party?  Is there a Party?

Not yet.  There will eventually be plenty of parties.



Gilbert:  Allons voir le wizard. . .

I love it when Playful Sims get the option to Skip Here.



Pose outside the double doors, check, let's see what it's like inside.



Huh.  Either I went way overboard or it's really nifty or both.  I like the recolors of the Japanese maple, though. 



Sim weddings are all about the pictures, or at least mostly, so I figure it makes sense to have a building that's mostly glass.  It's hard to take a lousy photo, even for me.



Now that's. . . a whole LOT of flowers. Florence Delarosa ought to be getting a cut.



Nice unobstructed shot of the pews. 

I tried sending Gilbert upstairs to check the stuff up there, but it kept dropping out of his queue.  I realized there must be something wrong with the stairs, sent him home, messed with the stairs, and tried again.



I wish I could say these stairs by Marvine worked well for this, because they are *awesome.*  The trouble is that they are not modular stairs, so it was nearly constant "wavy stomp!  stompy wave!" upstairs AND down, and that drives me crazy. I'm not dealing with a whole wedding party doing that.  So I had to take them out and put in the Holy Smoke stairs instead. 



Bartender:  Isn't 10:30 am a little early to start drinking?

Look behind her--you can see a hole.  The one downside of these windows is that they impinge into the floorspace on the second floor one tile all the way around, and you can't put something where there isn't any floor.  You can trick it, though, by taking off the windows, moving what you need to, and then moving the windows back.  The DJ booth seems to be working ok, though maybe I'll replace it with speakers; the bathrooms seem to be working ok, even though technically there is no floor under the toilets and the sims ought to be slipping through and going "YAAAAAAAH splat."  I put in a little secret compartment to hide Macrotastics, the Lot Debugger, a Summoner and a Wardrode Adjuster, so I can make sure the proper people are there, properly dressed.  Mostly.  Because you can never really tell what a non controllable Sim will do on a community lot.




And now you see why Gilbert got the job of testing everything.  He lives next door!

I did a lot of testing and building and fixing and moving.  The Caesars are now living in Orikes' Waterford Manor, so Diana will get to live in that splendid mansion with a game room.  I've got a house for Aubrey.

And now I'm in the mood to throw some weddings.

PB