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Alright. Before I go any further, please know that the recommendation ONLY APPLIES IF THIS PACK IS ON SALE. Otherwise yeah, its an atrocious ripoff.
Now for context, I quite enjoy The Sims 4, despite my love for The Sims 3. I acknowledge it has its faults, but Steam reviews are often jokes or just incessant whining with no real helpful thoughts so I'm attempting to review every piece of DLC for The Sims 4. Every pack I own was bought on sale, admittedly, except for this one.
My Wedding Stories is an interesting pack. I don't think it deserves all the hate it receives--this is a very straightforward pack that just serves to flesh out weddings. Which is something I didn't think we really *needed* but what are you gonna do? No, it doesn't add a ton of side content. No careers, no new skills to my knowledge. Just a few new mechanics for weddings and the new world--which is great, I must say. Honestly without the new world this is essentially a stuff pack for double the price. But even then some of the stuff packs have added more than this did.
PROS:
- A plethora of CAS items, most of which are extremely nice. The variety of wedding dresses is staggering--I even found one that resembles my own wife's wedding dress.
- New and far more interesting steps towards marriage--Now you can have bachelor/bachelorette parties, rehearsal dinners, engagement parties, and then the wedding!
- Other people in your Sim's life now have the opportunities to be named sim of honor, flower girl, officiator, and more. This allows for deeper storytelling and a greater sense of emotional connection to the other sims in the world.
- Weddings can have specially chosen customs and goals that reflect different cultures, and best of all its all up to you.
- Venues now matter much more than they did before. If you want to have a wedding with specific goals, you must ensure the venue has the appropriate furnishings.

CONS:
- Granted, I have not played through a wedding more than once, so my experience is limited. But from what I've seen the entire process of weddings is a little buggy. Sims just don't do what theyre told, or do what theyre told once and then never do what theyre told again.
- Because of the speed at which time passes and how long it takes for sims to do literally anything, weddings easily take upwards of 12 full hours from the start of the ceremony, to the dance, to the dinner, to the cutting of the cake. This is frustrating to say the least, and will inevitably lead to every sim there peeing themselves or going hungry or passing out. The only major venue for weddings is in the new town, and only has two bathrooms. Many sims peed themselves on my sim's wedding day. Makes it difficult to maintain immersion when everyone in the background looks like they rolled around in sewage.
- Complete and utter lack of tutorilization or ANY kind of communication from the game means that once you get to the venue for the wedding, it can be difficult to get things rolling. I had selected someone as officiator, but they died close to the wedding because it was Vladislaus Straud and he soaked in a little too much sun. I selected a new officiator, but could NOT get them to officiate the wedding. My sims had to end up just exchanging vows by themselves. Did I do something wrong? Was it too late to get a new officiator? Was it a bug? Did I not do things in the correct order? WE'LL NEVER KNOW BECAUSE THE GAME DOES NOT PROPERLY COMMUNICATE WITH YOU ABOUT NEW MECHANICS!
- While the clothing options for women were great, the male selection is straight up shameful. I was hoping for different cuts on suits, or more variations of color. I like business casual so I was hoping for simple colors in suits and shirts but some ties that really contrasted and popped. But no. This packs focuses almost solely on the more feminine side of things, which is a shame because the male fashion has been lacking severely when it comes to formal settings.
- Some sims straight up refuse requests to have specific roles in your wedding. My sim had a daughter that he asked to be flower girl and she refused three times despite having high relationship with my sim and his soon-to-be wife. Why? STILL DON'T KNOW BECAUSE THE GAME WON'T TELL ME
- There is definitely a soft limit to how many sims you can invite to the wedding. There simply is not enough seating, or the rooms are too small and get cramped quickly. Plus the "do whatever" nature of non player-controlled sims means they'll constantly get out of their seat for no reason.So even if you have enough seating for the ceremony or dinner, it won't necessarily matter.

Overall, the pack IS fun, if everything works decently. I had fun with the parties leading up to the wedding, and selecting the different roles and goals for the wedding itself. Once we got there, it was a mess and didn't work as well as it should have. But I still managed to have fun. Just wish they gave the masculine side a bit more attention and communicated with the player better. Do I recommend it? I guess, yeah. But ONLY on sale! Otherwise you're better off just purchasing some other pack. Highly recommend Get Famous and Vampires