The Moretti-Romilly wedding

Round 24: Spring 2020

Evan Moretti is 31 and Ione Romilly is 24.

This is long, but there's a lot of pic spam!

Ione and Evan's big day has finally arrived and the guests are slowly trickling in and taking their seats, including the groomsmen (and the groom's brothers!) Caleb, David and Emil.

Flower girl Elspeth and bridesmaids Lia, Asha and Olivia are ready and waiting. The weatherman is predicting rain, but hopefully the sun will stay out at least for the ceremony.

Which is starting now!

Presenting Mr and Mrs Moretti! Now the reception can begin!

And what a wedding reception be without conflict between family members? Evan's sister-in-law Kirstin is really not impressed with any of father of the bride Henry's attempts at conversation.

Mother of the groom Maria sure looks happy. It doesn't take a genius to figure out why.

Cara Moretti doesn't look too happy.

It doesn't matter if Anna and Emil are married and it doesn't matter if they're at least 100 metres away from Cara. Ass-grabbing is just not appropriate behaviour from a groomsman at a wedding!

The rest of the bridal party, at least, isn't getting themselves into any trouble.

Although Ione is thinking her new mother-in-law might be a little...challenging. When she gets to know her husband's sisters-in-law a bit better, they'll have some stories to share!

Lunch time! Elspeth is hungry but she doesn't feel like turkey and she's certainly not going to eat the salad. Gelatin it is!

Once Olivia sees the groom isn't using his table manners, she decides to toss hers out the window as well.

But even she thinks the belching is too much.

At one of the neighbouring tables, Luc is enjoying the view down Amelia's dress. Where is Asha? She might need to tighten Luc's leash.

Asha's been lumped at a table with Elspeth. No one told her babysitting the flower girl was part of this whole bridesmaid deal!

Maybe she could go and sit with Victoria. Victoria was sitting with Wade but he seems to be having a fairly involved conversation with himself. Is that what having a new baby does to you?

Never mind, it's time for the cake cutting now anyway.

Hasn't Evan ever heard of a fork? What if he gets cream on Ione's gown?

It's her wedding day though so she decides to just go with and laugh along with Evan. The cake is white like her dress anyway.

And after living with Evan for a couple of years, she's already used to his slobbiness, not to mention his gluttony. She barely even blinks an eye when he's done with his cake before she even sits down.

Finn gets up from his seat a second too late and completely misses out on cake. Don't they save a slice of cake for immediate family members at these things? Finn thinks they should. He was kind of looking forward to some cake.

Just as the sun is setting, Ione and Evan share their first dance as husband and wife.

Elspeth has already completely lost interest in the reception and has wandered away from the party to catch some butterflies (and yes, the rain came down - lucky they had the tent!)

The rest of the guests are happy to join the newlyweds on the dance floor.
By nightfall, all the guests have left and Ione and Evan are, finally, alone.

Naturally, they have their own plans for their wedding night.

A real honeymoon at the beach or in the Far East is just not on the cards for them but a night at The Vista hotel in Exeter is just as good. Honeymoons aren't really for sightseeing anyway.

When they are finally ready to check out the next morning (or afternoon, by the time they roll out of bed and get dressed), they order far too many waffles for two people from room service and head home with full bellies.

Not long after their very brief honeymoon, Evan and Ione learn they're expecting a baby! From her estimated due date, the baby was most likely conceived on their wedding night. It definitely wasn't planned but they're both thrilled at the idea of becoming parents anyway.

Extras - because I just can't restrain myself!

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Of course she did. Sigh. Does birth control work for any of my Sims any more or does it just have some vendetta against the Romillies?

I think you can really see how alike Finn and Elspeth are in profile. Once she grows up, I think we might have a pretty good idea of what Finn would look like as a woman!

Oh, those crazy 10 nice points Sims! If the personality points distribution made any sense at all in TS2, I would say that Evan and Ione's kids are going to be insanely nice. But it doesn't, so their kids will probably end up being curmudgeons anyway, despite having two Pollyannas like Evan and Ione for parents.

I went a bit crazy with the posed pics this time. I did them all at Central Park the day after the wedding, just teleporting people in as I needed them. Anyway, there are an absurd amount. What I'm showing you here are only my favourites - this isn't even the half of it.

The happy couple.

The entire bridal party. Can I just say how geekily thrilled I was to find a girls' formal dress in the exact colour as the bridesmaids' dresses? It's even a similar texture!

Just the girls.

Just the boys.

The groom's parentals.

And the bride's.

Notes:

• This wedding was a complete pain in the ass! They got married the first time and I got through half of the reception and then it crashed. So I had to do it all over again. :\ The crash should not have surprised me but it kind of did anyway. I had a lot of Sims on the lot! I had 26 on the lot the second time around but I had over 30 the first time!
• So now all of Maria's children are married, which is just as it should be, at least in her opinion. This new baby will be her 12th grandchild!
• LOL at Luc and Amelia. I've been giggling about that since yesterday. All her clothes are a little boobier on her since she gained weight.
• I totally need maternity formal wear that's enabled for young adults! I saw a dress I wanted for Victoria while I was dressing one of the other women and then it wasn't in the YA catalog. Red isn't really her colour. I like green for her.
• Baby Moretti is due in Winter 2021, so he/she will be 6 months younger than Finn and Victoria's baby (and so far, it's just one baby!) Ione has the want for a baby but I was planning on them waiting a little while. Their house is very small and cramped and they don't really have the money to buy another one. So I guess they might be going into debt sooner or later!