Weddings are like herding cats. A lot of people milling around, wondering what's going on and no-one really knows what they're supposed to be doing other than the bride and groom. While the bride and groom are on display being the center of attention; everyone else is just there being "present and accounted for". Do you cheer, do you sit down in the nearest chair or wait for the people responsible for assigning you a seat to tell you where to sit? Who knows, the only wedding that the Watcher has ever been to has been his own and it wasn't a big "formal" affair in a church. It was in the backyard of a friend's house and we had a barbecue at the end of it. It was small for what was considered a wedding and well...the Watcher and Mrs. Watcher are still together eighteen years later.
It was certainly a big affair. The whole family was there to see it, including the Steels who had moved to Legacy Island, lock stock and barrel from Sunset Valley because Susan wanted to be close to her biological off-spring - She and Yasunobu decided that they wouldn't have children since he was getting up there in age when they had gotten married. Evidently Blair and Chris had been popping out kids.
In the midst of all that confusion; Brianna and Tatsuyoshi were completely oblivious, eyes only for each other.
The little wedding gazebo could barely hold all of them. The Watcher was suprised it didn't collapse (but yay for Sims physics). Naturally it wasn't big enough to hold them all, so there was plenty of people still wandering around.
The wedding was a simple exchange of vows and promises to be faithful (Haruo would see to it that Tatsuyoshi was faithful to his baby girl) and the two of them blissfully gazed into each other's eyes.
...and time stood still for both Brianna and Tatsuyoshi as they kissed, completely unaware of the cheers behind them. Ah, love in its splendour.
...and then they blissfully stared at each other some more...
It took someone clearing their throats for their minds to come back to earth. Yup there was still the reception to attend to and well, that was before they could go upstairs, abandon their guests and go make blissful, marital woohoo without the everpresent wrath of Brianna's dad, which had prevented Tatsuyoshi from making any sort of pre-marital move on Brianna. Sort of an ever-present Sim Fu...birth control system. Let's just say that's a kind of a downer.
Tatsuyoshi and Brianna came in from the wedding venue back to the house to cut their wedding cake.
Brianna made the first cut in the cake to the cheers and applause of those assembled.
Brianna was the last of the Chikamori siblings to find someone and get married, but it seemed as though she got the best wedding...as most of the other's weddings were usually a hurried affair, but Braden didn't mind. He was too focused on his own Greta to really care that all that they had was a simple outdoor wedding with none of the trimmings of what Brianna got...and he was happy for his little sister. Chris got himself in the background of the shot of the wedding couple just to let everyone know that he was at the wedding...what you couldn't be bothered to dress up for the occasion?
As the bride, Brianna customarily got the first slice of wedding cake.
And with the whole Chikamori-French-Steel family assembled it was a LARGE affair. Luckily they had a big house.
...but eventually the wedding wound down and everyone headed back to their own places. And well, Brianna and Tatsuyoshi were left to their own devices.
...and Haruo and River slept content in the knowledge that their last child had "flown the nest"...and well...it was now their children's story to continue their legacy.
...and thus the hard work that Haruo and River had put into their family's fortunes and legacy would continue.
