Candlelight's first wedding

Round 8: Days 36-40

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Lukas and Raffaella finally have enough benefit points to get a secondary aspiration. I usually roll for these, so Lukas gets Romance and Raffaella gets Pleasure. This was the first thing she wanted to do. So easy to keep happy!

I completely forgot that Raff had a voodoo doll! She's using it on Sky Hightower here (that's seriously her name!) to make friends in the hope of getting one of those nice networking bonuses. It didn't work.

Dejected, she heads back inside to tend to Augustin, her soon-to-be-a-toddler son.

Lukas knows that Augustin is in severe need of clothes, so he heads to the brand new clothing store in Sullivan, the Frippery Frock (very slightly modified Maxis lot). He does a bit of socialising while he's there too.

When he gets home, his son suddenly looks very, very different!

Maybe it was their son's birthday or maybe it was the home date that stirred up some romantic feelings, but the long-engaged Lukas and Raffaella finally rolled up the Get Married want. They head down to the new wedding chapel in Exeter to get hitched.

I really like how the bride's family sat on one side and the groom's family on the other.

And look, a couple actually sitting together!

A parent and child actually sitting together! I was so pleased with this wedding and it hadn't even started yet.


And Raffaella Moretti is finally Raffaella Novak.

Everyone is keen to congratulate the new couple (you can see Kristina was tired of her unmarried son's state too - she earned 8000 aspiration points for this).

Chiara is scary happy though. Look at that grin!

Kristina and Alexandra are a bit more subtle.




So this wedding is the most realistic I've had in..well, forever. The endless greeting reminds me of my own family (we're Italian too!).

Raffaella is still attracted to her husband a whole five minutes after the wedding.

So apparently Raff has snuck a joy buzzer into her wedding ceremony. Snort. That woman was crashing the wedding anyway.

I think she had some nerve making Raffaella cry on her wedding day!

Back at home, Augustin gets a cuddle from Dad before aging to child.

Ta-da! You might not be able to see in either of the toddler pics in this update but Augustin had a seriously case of pointy cheeks going on. They've softened somewhat, thank goodness. He looks very similar to what Simona looked like as a child now, which is to say still slightly awkward but will probably make an attractive teen.