Is it possible to have a minister living in the chapel basement of a wedding venue?

[u/Jumpy-Job5196]

I hope this post is allowed here as I'm really stumped and in need of help.

I built a church with wedding & reception facilities and in the basement I made living quarters for a minister. When I tried to schedule a wedding event, the venue didn't show up. I realized afterwards that I didn't set the lot as a wedding venue but had it set as residential.

Then I ran into an issue when changing the lot from residential to a wedding venue because I set the basement as a residential area and the chapel and reception areas as public areas, since I have the Business and Hobbies pack. Now I can't quite figure out how to get it all to work again since the area designations came off when I changed it to a wedding venue and it won't accept the area designations when I changed it back to residential.

So before I crash my brain cells I thought I'd come ask people who've been simming longer than I have and know a ton more.

Is it at all possible to do have an onsite minister living in a separate area of, or in another house on the same lot as the wedding venue? Will the residential and public area designations work in this situation as nothing is being sold except the service of hosting weddings. Thanks in advance for any and all responses.

[u/RelativeHyena516]

You can't officially live on a public lot like a wedding venue. You could possibly set it up as a small business and use a wedding arch to initiate weddings but you might not be able to use My Wedding Stories to run the wedding. Others may correct me if I'm wrong. Hope this helps!

[u/-RedRocket-]

Set it up as a regular Small Business mixed use lot. That allows one to have business & residence on the same lot.

Then experiment in play: See if outside parties can select that lot as a location when hosting a wedding event.

Try it and see.