The Gentry-Gottlieb wedding

Round 36: December 2043 (Summer)

Sophie Gottlieb is 30 and Oliver Gentry is 27. 

I wasn’t totally thrilled with the idea when Mum asked if I would wear her wedding dress but I’m happy I agreed now.

It’s a beautiful dress and was worn by my grandmother and great-grandmother, as well as Mum. That’s a pretty special tradition to continue.

And I know Grandpa was excited for me to wear it too and with him being gone now, it seems extra-important.

I didn’t have a very specific picture in my head of what I wanted my wedding to look like. I let Oliver pick the suits, I let my bridesmaids pick their dresses and for everything else, I just picked whatever I saw that I liked the most.

You wouldn’t have thought being so casual would make for such a long planning process but I’ve always been a bit of a procrastinator.

Our wedding was years in the making but I’m pretty proud of how it all came together.

Oliver and I really just wanted to get married and the details weren’t that important to us.

Well, Oliver wanted to get married. The idea hadn’t really occurred to me until he asked and then it just felt right.

And now we’re husband and wife! I know we haven’t been married for very long at all but it still feels so weird to say that.

Weird in the very best way possible, of course.

My married friends all said they didn’t get to spend much time with their husbands on their big days, so I tried to make sure that didn’t happen.

We managed to steal away from the rest of the reception a few times during the day.

It was nice to get some time alone together during the party.

No one seemed to mind, or at least, they didn’t say anything if they did.

Even with our little sneaky trips outside, we were still able to mingle a ton and talk to all of our guests.

We spent a lot of time talking with Noah and Brigit, who are getting married in April. Theirs will be the next big family wedding and probably the main topic of conversation for a while, now that our wedding is done with.

Unlike me at the same stage, Brigit is right on top of the wedding planning already. She’s like a machine!

I can’t wait to see how their wedding turns out. From the sounds of it, it’s going to be amazing.

Later on in the afternoon, Sebastian somehow got control of the music and became our wedding DJ. Even Oliver had no idea he knew how to do that but honestly, he was pretty good!

He did get everyone up and dancing, which was awesome. I wanted to make good use of having such a great dance floor at our venue.

I was hoping everyone would enjoy themselves at our reception and I think they did.

For me and for Oliver, it was the best day of our lives, so it definitely ticked all the boxes for us!

We would both love to celebrate with a honeymoon but now that we’ve bought a house and have a mortgage to pay off, it might have to wait.

A week off work to just relax and be together will have to suffice for the time being.

Oliver wants to start a family right away, while I’m not really feeling that quite yet. At the moment, I’d much rather get a puppy!

I figure we can see how we go with a canine baby and then we’ll think about adding a human one to the mix.

Posed pics:

Couple shots, which I'm super happy with, especially seeing the height difference (Oliver is 1.06 and Sophie is 0.955, for those of you who speak sim height) makes some poses look very strange. 

The couple with Oliver's parents, Jairus and Vanessa, who both look frighteningly young to have a 27-year-old son! Especially Jairus, who looks about 12!

Eddie, Louisa, Oliver and Sebastian. Good genes! And they all have a recessive red hair gene, so fingers crossed! No chance for Sophie and Oliver (she's Brown/Black) but assuming the others stay with their current partners, then maybe!

Sophie and Oliver with Sophie's parents, Wade and Amelia. This pic just reminded me how much I love Sophie's genetics. She actually looks a ton like her dad but she got Amelia's eyes, so she's got quite a different look to her siblings, who are all Wade clones!

Speaking of those Wade clones...Noah, Sophie, Emma and Michael. 

The whole bridal party! Future weddings are definitely going to be limited to three on each side (unless I go crazy again, which I might). Having four on each side was just enough to make posing that bit more annoying. The girls' dresses are hard to use with OMSPs too, because they take up the whole tile - it makes it hard to grab the OMSP to move them around. 

All the girls. Happy with the two colours with the dresses. If the right bride comes along, I might try it again. :)

And all the guys. I'd already picked out four bridesmaids for Sophie and then realised I didn't really have four groomsmen for Oliver. As a playable NPC (now upgraded - look for his profile soon), I hadn't focused much on friends for him. So I slotted in his dad and Sophie's brother Noah. I thought maybe it was weird to have your dad as a groomsman but apparently it's a thing and fathers often even serve as best men. So I guess it's not that strange after all!

Notes:

• I'm planning on putting up a few more pics on Tumblr, so keep an eye out. :)
• Oliver rolled a baby want at some point during the reception. Sophie just wants a puppy, lol. So no baby this round but we'll see what happens in Round 37. 
• The house they're living in now is the one I built for the 10 minute challenge - I did a tour a few months back. They have a $50,000 mortgage now but they are both relatively high up in their careers, so hopefully it won't be too much of a burden. Especially once I finally get Sophie set up with The Claudette.