Sim Marriage

[applejackkxo]

If this is something that has already been addressed, I'm sorry for reposting. I skilled all the thread titles best I could, but might have missed it.

This is something most people wouldn't care about, but it bugs me some I'm wondering if there's a way around it. I usually start my games with a girl sim then marry someone around town. It always bugs me that instead of my girl sim getting the guy sims last name, he gets her last name instead.

Is there a way to ask a sim to move in with you, like in the Sims 2, so that I could then trigger the marriage through the guy sim? I know that using testingcheatsenabled you can shift click and make the sim part of the active household, but using that route, unless I'm wrong, I don't get the guy sims former money (teehee). So is there any way around this that anyone knows of?

Thanks

[LivvieLove]

Become good friends with the guy, then when you are talking to him, try clicking different things that will get the other Sim to think (your sims name here) is being Friendly, usually there is an option for "Ask to Move In".
There you go, you now know how to move someone in.

[applejackkxo]

Ahh, thank you so much. For some reason I was only looking under romantic. *Face-palm*. Thanks

[Pam]

Right, it's not a romantic interaction.  You have have anyone who is good enough friends move in with your Sim this way.  You can also use Edit Town to split and merge households to get the fellow into your household.  Barring all of that, you can go to City Hall and change their names after they get married.

[SimMe]

Wow! Somebody else who starts like I do. I never could get that interaction and got impatient so my girl ended up asking him to marry her.

[LivvieLove]

Yes, take it from Pam and I, I know Pam loves starting with little girls (from much reading through lots of her posts) and I just love little girls too, except when it comes down to marriage... Then we had to either have the girl just give in and propose of learn other ways to get the guy in part of the household!

[RunAmokSims]

The things you learn here!

I have never had the move in option show up and I was wondering why. After a certain point I never used the friendly interaction!

[Saltypaws]

Also, you have to use the friendly interaction a few times, I think on mine, it was like 4 or 5 times, before "move in" came up.  What I was doing was switching back and forth between romantic and friendly and it would not give me "move in", until I quit using romantic and just kept using friendly and of course I read that here.  It doesn't take long, but like Pam said, it is easy to change their name at city hall, but for some reason, the meaning is not the same, but my own trait is hopeless romantic, so I always want the guy to do the asking and have some romance in the mix.  lol

Go figure.

[RunAmokSims]

Does that mean if you already have the romantic interest title that the "move in" won't come up?

[Saltypaws]

No, just keep up with the friendly interactions and do not use any romantic interactions in between and the move in should show up.

[sydney511]

...or you can marry the guy, he moves in, and change both of the names at City Hall.

[Saltypaws]

Yep, or do that to.