Today is actually me and Dan's one year
wedding anniversary which is kind of weird to think about, but obviously last
year we didn't do like, a whole big thing. He had literally just moved here and we were kind
of on a time crunch to get paperwork filed for the visa and stuff, there was a travel ban
so his parents couldn't come from the UK, so we just like, went to the
courthouse, signed some papers, and then went back and had
pizza at my parents house.
It was actually a really nice day, but it
wasn't like, big or fancy or anything like that. I'd still like to have like, a wedding-wedding
at some point in the next couple of years, but let's be honest, that's
just not in the cards right now. Like, I just bought a house, we gotta
take this one step at a time, okay? But I'm still feeling a little bit inspired and I
kind of want to build a wedding venue in The Sims.
I was thinking about building some sort of like,
countryside, sort of farm-like wedding setup. To be honest, this is not something I would ever
want in real life, this is just not my vibes. Like, I'm planning on putting hay
bales as the seating for this and I just don't want that in real life. I'm sorry, but it's not the vibe. However, in The Sims, I think it'll be cute. So I was sort of picturing having like, a
smallish barn over here on this side of the lot, and then we'd have like, the reception area
and like the tables and things inside of it.
And then outside I want to have like, some
crops, I honestly might even put like, a cow or something, and then like, a
wedding arch and chairs and things. I've seen a lot of pictures of barns that kind of
look like this, like, they've sort of got wings. I have been looking at pictures
before I started building this 'cause I was trying to get some inspiration.
I don't really know how wide it should be? Okay, well, I guess we're gonna need to
have bathrooms, or at least one bathroom. And then we'll wanna have like, some proper
tables, maybe a dance floor, a bar… Oh, this is a little bit small, isn't it? Okay, my cat was in here and she
just left, we've been abandoned.
She was helping though, she'd been laying
on my keyboard for hours this morning. Apparently the hay bales have scared
her away too and I won't blame her. Okay, I'm sorry, let's think about this. I might actually put the
bathrooms on this side because then we can have windows that
have like, a view of the farm. And I might even just have one bathroom
over here, like, maybe there'll be an archway into it and then there'd just be a door
or something, I don't know, something like that.
We do have like, a sort of cottage-y
Cottage Living bar that we could use which might be kind of fun because it's got like,
a chicken on it, so that might be a nice touch. So we can have the bar over here, I want to have
a banquet table because then you can put like, the food on it and stuff for the wedding. This is the problem, right, because
in real life, you might have like, a table for the couple right
at the front, and then like, a bunch of guest tables kind of spread out, but in
The Sims, you don't really need that many tables because The Sims don't usually sit at them or
anything, but then I also want to have like, a dance floor and I want to have some music,
and all of a sudden this room is very small. Oh, look at the pretty light purple.
Oh,
this room is very small, this is not good. You know what, I'm just gonna
not think about that for a sec and I'm gonna work on the exterior
because this part is easier for me, and maybe once we've figured out the
exterior, it'll come together better. The problem that I have every time building venues in The Sims is that I always want them
to be like, more realistic looking. It's just more fun that way, but like, for gameplay, it's probably better if it's
a little bit smaller and less realistic because your couple isn't gonna sit
at the head table, they just won't. In fact, you'd be lucky if
anybody sat at any table. And like, these tables are gonna seat six Sims, do
I need more than 12 chairs inside? Probably not, no one's gonna actually use them
anyway so it doesn't matter.
All right, well, here's what I was
thinking for the shape of the barn. This is a picture that I saw
online, I just googled like, farm wedding venue and this one came up,
but I kind of liked how this barn was like, all white, so I think I might try and do
something similar to that for our little barn. I'm also only using the base game, Cottage Living, and the wedding pack for this so I'm not really
sure about like, the window and door situation. We do have some pretty doors, but they're not
really like, barn doors, if that makes sense. I don't know, that's very much like, a church. I wonder if I made this taller and
then tried to sneak in this one because this actually is going to — okay. Wait, bb.MoveObjects on, okay, that's gonna clip, but it all just depends
whether or not we care, right? Because — oh, that's an annoying kind
of clipping because you can see it.
It's still gonna work, like, these doors, they do work when you put them on bigger walls
like this, it just depends if we care or not. And I'm not sure if I care, I
need to think about it more. Oh, and then in a similar
sense, should I use like, these with the shutters, or is it
odd to have shutters on a barn? I won't lie, I don't spend a lot of time in barns
or at wedding venues so I'm not really sure. You know, I don't care if that's
off center on this side to be honest because then it kind of looks better
from the inside and then we can have like, a fancy spot for this banquet table, and
then this bathroom door can kind of be like, out of the way, hidden a little because it
doesn't need to be like, a fancy bathroom. It just needs to have a toilet and a sink. You know, I feel like that looks
really pretty from the inside, I'm just not sure about
this door from the outside.
That's like, story of our life though, isn't it? I'm never sure about what I want
to do with the exterior of these things. I think this one looks really small and kind of
sad, but I don't really know what the alternative would be, aside from like, if we just opened it
up, but then the lighting gets ugly and that's kind of the main problem that I have with it
because I like how this looks from the exterior. I don't like how it looks from the
interior, the lighting is just weird in there and then you can't get good screenshots. No, we should not prioritize
the exterior over the interior, the entire point of this is to
have a functional wedding venue. Speaking of which, I don't like any of this,
this is not what I want it to look like.
Oh, this little blueberry wreath is cute, it's kind of like the picture
with the blueberry fields, except it's a little wreath in The Sims with
absolutely massive berries because I sized it up. I'm just gonna put a bunch of little things
that I want to use outside around the place. Oh my god, a fireplace would have been beautiful. Oh, we probably shouldn't do that. I kind of want it to be like, sort of cozy
and like, fairy-lit inside of this place. Because look, these are beautiful, these
lanterns are like, the vibe completely. I just need to figure out how many of them I
should put and like, where I should put them. But I feel like if we had a bunch of those
on the walls, it would be really nice. It'd also be nice if we had a door,
but that's a problem for future Simsie. I need to figure out how farm-y I'm trying
to go with this because I feel like I've got this very beautiful like, white vision in my
head, but then I also want to use this like, more rustic looking stuff
which makes this not match.
Oh, we could use these little
benches! That would be cute. And we could always have like, a — oh no. I was gonna say we could have a fake dance floor, but I don't think I like how
the rug looks so maybe not. Okay, new question: can I get away with using these adorable
little chairs, or is that not the vibe? What is the vibe? I don't think it's gonna work.
I don't think those are the
vibe. We could probably use the wedding chairs though with the flowers. Except all of the flowers don't match the
purple, so do we wanna go pink or blue? I think I like the blue better
because we have the blueberries, so maybe the colors of the
wedding are like, purple and blue. Do I want to use all six chairs? I always feel
like the six chairs look like a lot, like, when I try and place them, it seems like it's really
busy when there's all six chairs on something.
Oh, I can't even put the pretty piano. There's
no space for anything in this stupid build! Why did I do this? I could probably use it in the corner. Okay, thoughts on these
lanterns as the centerpiece. I really, really need to be stopped
because right now I want to use this table in the back just as like, an extra table, and
that's probably a bad idea, but I don't know. I just — I want like, something back
there, and I want to put like, this on it, we could probably get some flowers on it. And then it also makes everything
kind of cut into the bar.
Oh, this is so much harder than
I thought it was gonna be. Okay, do you think this is too big? Is that too much? I think it might be too much. It
might be too much even for us. Okay, so I was thinking about painting
the barn to be this like, sort of white paneling and then maybe I could
put some columns around the edges. I feel like the roof probably needs to change
too because I don't really like the color of it. Maybe like, the more rustic-looking
one with the shingles? Okay, the archway doesn't ruin the lighting
completely which is maybe a good idea. I just — I don't know, I still feel
like the scale is off, but then like, what are you gonna do, put like, three of them? That's ugly, it doesn't look good.
What I want is like, a big rectangle.
Can I just try for a second what it
would look like if we did it like this? Because I know it looks horrible on the inside,
but to me, this is probably the best that I can do on the exterior because nothing else is
this size, like, nothing else fits that way. It's so annoying, I don't know what else to do, but it totally ruins the vibes of the
interior, like, it's so dark in there now. When it's nighttime, it's okay, 'cause
at night — it actually looks bad. Why does it look bad at night?
I need to bring a sim here. No, it looks so bad. I know that
it's only eight in the morning, but it actually looks so bad in here.
I just can't, I can't. And I don't
have — ugh, and I don't have UI cheats installed so I can't cheat the time. Oh my god, today my patience is being so tested. I won't lie to you, I did have to stop
recording for a second in the middle of this video to go cry, not about the
build, I'm just very overwhelmed. We're moving soon, there's a
lot going on, but like, come on. Why is The Sims doing this to me? No,
it's horrible, it's actually so ugly. Forget it, I'm just gonna landscape
it like it's not happening. It's my wedding anniversary, I'll do what I
want, I don't care if it looks good or not. I'll just do what I want.
Okay, but
we actually need to get a few trees kind of around the place to fill it in a little. And then I was thinking about putting a barn. I know that might be silly, but like, genuinely
my original goal was, let's have a cow. That was the whole vision initially
for this build and so I don't know. If I'm gonna have like, a real barn, maybe I shouldn't have the cow
barn, that was what I wanted. Maybe we could just like, put some cows?
Oh, no, I can't just put some cows, cool. Yeah, I'm gonna put some fences now
because I know I can put fences. I think that I'd like to have maybe
like, some farm behind the wedding arch. Like, kind of the thought in my head is
that maybe we could have like — all right, that's probably a bit too close, but
maybe we could have like, some seating kind of leading up to the wedding arch and
then behind it, I wanted to have some crops.
Like, maybe something like that because
I did want this to be very farm-like, like I kind of wanted it to feel like you were
visiting a farm when you came to get married here. Although now I'm kind of thinking that maybe
I should have a fence around the crops, so let me rethink this a little. Like, is that nice or is it extremely ugly? This is the kind of thing that I'm not sure about. This is what I need help with because
I don't know the answer. Maybe we get a different tree and then we could have
like, a more proper entrance into this. And look, we could stack up like,
some hay bales and stuff over here. Like, I'll literally stack them, watch.
See? We'll get some hay bales in the corner. We'll fill this with crops. My cat is back by
the way, and she is like, fascinated by this.
She's totally staring at the screen as I move
it. I feel like what I'm looking at is like, two completely different ideas. Like, this is very like, oh, white, pretty,
updated modern farmhouse, and then we've got like, this more rustic stuff over here, and so
I'm kind of struggling to meld the two. Ooh, a tractor, we could put that in
the front. That could be fun to like, take photos with, you know what I mean? It feels kind of gimmicky, but
it feels right for the wedding. I have no idea what I'm
doing. Absolutely not a clue, not a single clue what I'm trying to do right now. Our little guest is back, have you
come to help us figure out what to do? I'm not naming any names, but some of
us are really struggling right now.
Some of us have no clue what to do. Should I plant my own crops too? Like, should
I go through and just put my own debug crops in so that they look a little bit more
like, uniform and stuff for the pictures? I mean, they don't all have to be uniform, but
like, for example, it'd be nice if we had like, our own little custom sort of stuff going on,
but I don't know if this looks silly or not. Would it be — I don't know, I don't know.
That's the whole point of the video,
I don't know, I don't know what to do. Okay, I do think that maybe if we had the wedding
arch kind of angled like this maybe, and then if we had — oh, the only problem is it's gonna be
really annoying to try and get the chairs right. But we could line up the chairs, like, six of them kind of this way, and we
sort of change it around a little.
And then we can have like, another
big tree in the corner or something. Let me just try and get these
— oh, do they not place nicely? Is that not possible? Can I not place them
nicely because they're on a weird diagonal? That's cool. Oh, I'm so glad. All right, we have to try and like custom line
these up a little. Just don't look too closely at it, that's again, the moral of this video is
we don't know what we're doing and don't look that close because it'll probably look fine as long
as you're not like, staring at it or anything. And that does look nice, it's
not perfect, but it's nice. Oh my god, okay, she hit me
right in the face with her tail. Okay, I have to alt place
this wedding aisle too so let me just try and figure that out really fast. Although — you're caught in
the headphones! Oh my god, Snap. Although, if we have this wedding aisle placed,
that might actually help us with the placement of these because we can like, kind of
try and line them up around it a little.
So maybe that's for the best. Okay, and
then what color? Do I make them wood? There's a lot of wood, but also a lot of white going on out here so I need to
find a way to like, meld that better. I think these could be white though,
I think we can do white benches. Am I gonna have them stand on like,
some terrain paint or something maybe? Okay, because then we can kind of
have this come down and we can like, sort of marry it? Get it, haha,
because it's a wedding venue. We can kind of marry it like, in the
middle over here, as like, an entrance.
If we think it looks okay,
which I'm not sure about. We're gonna have to figure that out, but I think
that this sort of thing makes the most sense. Again, this is assuming that we
do keep that as the entrance. 'Cause then we can sort of landscape like, around it a little, like, we can
have plants sort of all in this area. Ooh, you know what, this might be kind of cool. Maybe I could put this over here
instead, in like, that empty space. And then we get like, a bunch
of flowers all through here. We could probably even have a couple more
flowers kind of at the end of this over here, I'm just not sure how much layering is too much. We could probably even have a couple more
flowers right here, but then I also wanted to put some kind of in the front here so I don't
know like, at what point it would become too much.
If we have any terrain paint glitches and
it deletes my terrain paint, I will cry. I've already cried once during the filming
of this video, I'm not afraid to do it again. But I don't think we will, I haven't had
many terrain paint glitches recently. Oh, this kind of thing could be
a fun little addition, right? Because it kind of tells you like, oh, the ceremony is this way and then we
have the like, reception that way. I sort of like that idea. And then we have
this little sign too to show the seating. Although, it might make more sense on the inside. All right, I'm kind of jumping around a lot,
there's a lot of like, things happening over here which makes me feel like, maybe it's a
little too busy, but it's also kind of cute. That's probably not the right vibes for
the wedding, right? That like, llama thing.
This one makes a lot more sense
because this could have like, the couple's name on it, although
I suppose it actually has pastries. I didn't look that closely at it. That might be
better because that could be the couple's name. Or we could have a bread basket. Yeah,
we'll do that one. I'll pick that one. All right, so I've done a lot
of landscaping to try and fill in the space and we've got a lot of
flowers, but I like how this looks from this angle and I think it'll be
pretty in your Sims screenshots too. There's still a lot of space to fill in, like, there's so many empty walls and places that
I feel like kind of need some more bushes, especially now that I've moved that like,
tractor — what is this? Hay bale thing.
There's still a lot of space to fill in
so I'm not really sure what I'm gonna do about that, but we'll get there, it's fine. We can just put some hay bales around
the place and it'll work eventually. I think I'll just put some
more flowers on this side kind of to fill in that empty space
where that like, hay bale thing was. And then I kind of wonder if we should get
like, one more little farm section over here? I realize it's very tight, this
place is like, very, very full.
Maybe we could put a tree there. Oh,
this one's got little white flowers, that would be really good for this I think. We could probably put some more
hay bales just in front of it. I'm putting so many of these
hay bales around the place, they're everywhere, but I think it looks good. There's actually some base game debug like, crop looking things although I might
have scrolled past them at this point. I don't know where they
are, but I know they exist. I did scroll past them, okay,
cool. Maybe I won't use them then. I am gonna go around and put some of
these little mushrooms like, everywhere. I'm so sorry. I have a real problem when it
comes to these mushrooms because I use them so much in my builds like this. I will put these things literally everywhere,
but it's okay because they're beautiful.
And like, look how cute that is, the
mushrooms make such a difference. Isn't that just so nice? Oh no, there's so many different pieces
of this, I don't know what size to use. I really like how this looks, but I'm not
sure if I should like, vary the size a little? Like, that makes more sense obviously in
real life, but the same kind of goes for the pumpkins because I have this like, dream
of — oh my god, that is a giant pumpkin.
All right, maybe not. But I have this like, dream, this vision, of
there being like, some varying sized pumpkins kind of growing, but I don't know how to
make them look like they're actually growing. There is of course the option of just having this
guy plant some 'cause then we could have like, all of the things, like, he can come
plant some watermelon over here — wait, let me think about this more, hang on. Yeah, you can come plant — no,
oh no, okay, plant some mushrooms. Do that first. Oh, and there's
all these people here now, why are you here! There's
not even a wedding happening. Okay, plant some eggplant. They're just
walking around, honestly what are you doing? They're all just walking in
circles, look at them.
What is this? Did I miss the memo for something? Okay, I don't even know how to cheat to
make these bigger so maybe never mind. Maybe I will just, as I said before, figure out
my own because I think it looks better that way. I don't know how eggplants grow. I'm trying to
figure out how to lay these out in a better way, and I legitimately have no clue
what they're supposed to look like.
Eggplants grow on vines just like
the pumpkins and everything do, but whenever I see people growing eggplants like,
at farms and stuff, they've got them hanging. So I feel like trying to place them down
on the ground like this is just silly. Like, it looks weird, I don't know how to do it. Oh, we could put some fake plants, like, fake-fake plants, we could just put like,
some lavender or something growing over here. Oh, that would really help. I feel like
that's a pretty good way to split it up, maybe I could get like, one other fake-fake plant. Oh, what if we did sunflowers, is this
really ugly or does that kind of make sense? I feel like that's pretty in the
background. Maybe that would be good. I kind of feel like this could be the exterior
setup all done, like, this to me is perfect.
It's just the inside now that we have to
worry about because I ruined the door. The door looks silly. Okay, now hang
on, what if we did it like this, and then we had the door kind of like, inset a
little bit because that still makes the front look a little bit more interesting, but then
it doesn't ruin the entire interior lighting. And that gives us like, a little bit of
a nook that we can put some things in. I do think that the dance
floor is probably too big, although we didn't like how the dance
floor looked anyway so maybe it's okay. We can get these pretty little
lights on either side of the door. I think I'll paint the whole place
with that paneling on the inside. I would like to let it be known
that if I was using other packs, I would put like, a million fairy lights
everywhere both inside, outside, like, just lights all over the place, but
I wanted to just use the base game, obviously Cottage Living, and the wedding pack
so I don't have my beloved Toddler Stuff lights.
Oh, that's more yellow-y. Okay, that's good to know actually because that means this
should be — oh, that looks terrible. Oh no, the windows are a different color.
I didn't really think about that part. Do I care how the back looks? Do I care how
the back windows blend in to the front window? Not really? I feel like I probably
prefer it all just to make sense in its own context as opposed to
like, every window being the same color everywhere although that would be nice if
the windows were all the same color everywhere. I mean, that is ideal, but um, it's The Sims and sometimes we can't get
our way and you know what, that's all right. I wonder if we kind of tried
to make our own dance floor, like, by putting down a
different kind of flooring.
I don't really know what that flooring
would be because it all looks weird. We could use this one. No,
I'm just kidding, I'm sorry. Stone, like, tile? I don't know.
This one's just kind of white. I feel like that's ugly though, like, that doesn't
feel like the beautiful dance floor of my dreams. I need to find some sort of
in-between of like a pretty, nice, like, rustic-looking texture, but also
something that can pretend to be a dance floor. Also I feel like this wallpaper is kind of
silly, it doesn't look as good as I thought it would and that is difficult for me to accept. I'm just hoping that the more like, little pieces we add in, the better it will look and
the closer it will get to feeling complete. Maybe if I change the lighting too to
make all the lights more of a yellow tone because they were turning
kind of white and that was gross. Oh, there's a barrel. Barrel is good,
we should just use that somewhere. We could get like, a combo of a couple of
barrels sort of lined up in the corner.
What color did I use out here? The third one. See, like, something like
this could be kind of nice. I feel like I need to put something behind
it, even like a bookshelf, I don't know. Does that have the right like, rustic feel
to it or is that just weird and random? It's kind of weird and random, maybe not. Oh, what if we like, sized up
these beautiful little lights? Maybe that would be okay, I know they're very
large, but maybe that would be a nice touch.
Also I'm pretty sure that by doing this it's made that toasting item not
functional, but it looks cute. We could always get another one. I guess I
sort of have this table right here with the intention of it being a spot that you could put
the wedding cake so we'll use this as the filler.
There's like, you know, a wedding cake right
here on the table, hopefully something big. Oh, hang on, hang on, I might actually have this random guy buy us one just so
that we can have it for the vibes. There we go, see? Imagine that. Imagine your
wedding cake is there on this beautiful table. Suddenly this feels out of place.
Maybe we should just have the cake. I mean, we could probably put a couple lanterns
on either side of it. They're a bit big, but you can't really size them
down because the flame floats. Oh, don't size it up either, yikes.
I don't know, I just want
something sort of cute there. That might be okay. Maybe if there
were just less lights like, in general, if it was a bit more cozy vibes inside. So we could put some more of
these fairy lights behind the bar. Oh, this little bar menu thing could
be kind of cute because they could have like — you know how some couples for their
wedding they'll have like, special drinks. I guess maybe that's the wrong spot for it
because it's kind of just off to the side, but they'll have like, ooh, our wedding cocktail. We can have that right there, and they
can display the wedding cocktails. This thing as the dance floor is actually kind of
growing on me, but maybe it needs to be different. That's like, solid white. There's also blue. Dirt, um, kids play mat, grass, sand, literally stone, a different
kind of wood in a different color? I'm sorry, that looks horrible, maybe I
should just put a rug or something down.
We had originally talked about that, about just
like, using a rug to pretend it's the dance floor. Maybe we should go back to that moment,
maybe that was our finest moment. It's just — I don't — um, I don't love them. Like, the red roses are not the vibes
in here. I guess this one's okay, but it almost feels a little bit too formal. We need to get a stereo too,
but I'm not really sure which one we should use because ideally I
want the people to dance over here, so should we just get like, a romance venue wall
speaker and stick it up in the side or something? They won't dance over here, will
they? They're not very smart.
This is a lot harder than I thought it would be. Oh, I don't know, I really don't know. You know what, I think for me this
is good. I'm kind of toeing the line right now between like, should I
add more to the inside or should I just leave it be so that it's
easier to move around in there. Because I would like to add in
some more decorations and stuff, but I'm also worried about like, putting
too much and then making it so your Sims can't get around and I would like for there
to be space for The Sims to get around still, so I'm just not sure where that line is and
I feel like maybe I should just call it.
I do actually love how it looks on the outside, I think this is so cute and I would
like to have my Sims get married here. Again, I don't know if I personally
would get married here, like I said, the hay bales are just not really my thing, but
if your Sims so desire, they are welcome to. I've really only built a bunch of like, beachy sort of wedding venues so it's kind of fun
to do something a little bit different.
And you know what, building this is just
making me feel stressed about the thought of planning a real-life wedding because
I would like to do that, but also, ah! Do I really want to do that? I
don't know, it's kind of scary. But I hope that you enjoyed this video,
I'm sorry if it was all over the place, this literally took me like, three
hours to film which is a lot longer than a build this small usually takes me, so
um, it's not my finest work, but I did try. Have the best rest of your day and I'm gonna
catch you all tomorrow, okay, bye everybody. Oh, the lighting on this lot at other
times that is not evening is so ugly.
I don't know if you saw at the
end of the video just then, like, the morning light, but it's so bad. It's so shadowy and just horrible. [ JAZZY OUTRO MUSIC ].
