The Sims 4: My Wedding Stories wants you to cry

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The Sims has always been about customization. The number of expansions and content packs for The Sims 4 is proof enough of that. It seems as though there are endless ways to create Sims, place them into an extremely malleable world, and play around with them as they go about their daily lives. As a lifelong fan of other creativity-promoting simulation games like Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley, I should love The Sims. Despite their similarities, I’ve never been able to get into the series … with one exception.

I’ve been playing MySims, a 2007 series spin-off, on and off for almost 15 years now. While its initial reviews were mixed, with a lot of people writing it off as a simplified Sims for kids, I fell in love with the creative opportunities afforded by its furniture-building mechanic. I like that it has a little more structure than main series Sims titles and that I didn’t have to micromanage every moment of my Sims’ lives.

I recently got back into MySims after a long absence, and it got me interested in trying a main series Sims game again. My Wedding Stories, the newest content pack for The Sims 4, might just be what wheels me back in. The reason? One of the designers’ goals was to give players deep, meaningful moments with their Sims alongside all the new outfits, interactions, and events that the pack brings. At an EA digital preview event, I got to see just how the team is putting those goals into action.

My Wedding Stories allows players to design not only the weddings of their Sims’ dreams but everything that comes before and after. Sims can participate in engagement parties, “bach” parties (the game’s version of bachelor and bachelorette parties), rehearsal dinners, and family-oriented cultural traditions