Amusing point J.M. Pescado and thanks. 

And Inge, I don't care if your a cow, a swine, or a full blown jackass.  Your a creator!  That's more than most of us barn animals can claim.

The real problem is this is just for one person, not a public upload.  I know how hard it is to trust someone not to reupload someone else's work after changing it.  I've told my friend to get in here and help me explain her idea lol , as for Marhis, I haven't seen his name in anything recent anywhere so far.  It's a cute idea, it's just finding someone to either start a whole new mod, or tweak a mod that has most of the wanted functions already attached has become harder to come by, short of learning it all yourself.  Everyday it seems the way to go is to grab all those programs and tutorials and hope you can rap your head around the new info to make your own mods.

Thank you for the information, I am always reluctant to bother creators.  Especially those with a decent reputation.  Pm's are well personal lol, I feel bad leaving messages that are only half baked to begin with.  I was merely looking for the information that I recieved from Rufio and I appreciate you going that extra mile to ask Inge already.
sheesh.   

I didn't want to necro that thread, nobodies touched it in awhile.  And yes I would have ratherred pm'd personally but I wanted maybe a more open discussion of whether this is even worth suggesting to Inge or anyone else interested in an idea without using the wedding arch.

Someone I know is  interested in Marhis/Inges modded wedding arch.  Basicly they were looking for a way to 'promise' their children at an early age for marriage to another.  Not neccessarily getting marriend until their of age.  Her exact wording was
*(" What I'm kinda looking for: - Parent/guardian A 'proposes' a bethrothal to parent/guardian B between their 2 tots/children/teens/young adults.  And then when the children 'come of age' they will get married.  The children don't need to know or like each other...they just get married per the parents command.  This in turn, could give plus or negative (+/-) effects based on their personalities, relationship and interest and stuff.  It also could effect (+/-) the relationship with child and parent/guardian.
 I was kinda hoping for the interaction between the parent/guardians and the (+/-) between the parent and the child!

Arranged marriages for her medieval hood.  I thought something like a generic custom content item like a peice of old timee parchment would represent the promised arranged marriage, but she's looking for something a little deeper than that.  I'm not sure on the policy of letting other modders tweak or play with Inge's things so I wanted to run the idea by of the lot of you first.

O my sweet Mary Yaguchi!    I beg all of you my forgiveness lmao, morriganrant you were right I placed the crack in the wrong spot  inside my mansion and gardens, I should have known it was me and not the pc (one of those unwritten pc rules) it belonged in the tsdata.  How utterly ignorant of me.  
But I am grateful for the harassments and help, it got me thru the loneliness of not knowing where to look next.  Arrg this half pint stealer will stay offline as always during my gameplay so don't judge me too harshly there.  And my husband will also thank you for sparing him the expense of buying new copies.
Especially after splurging me with a new pc, did I mention its pink. lol maybe the pink is blocking my basic thought process. (can you tell I'm bursting with fruit flavors just seeing the load screen) thanks again morriganrant for making me slow down and look at what i've done already, I owe you one.

Regards Happythoughts

I said 'usually' steals...I don't make a habit of it. lol  thanks for all directx help, but I'm almost positive it has nothing to do with directx, because again like I said, after installing my original sims2, I launched the game to make sure it was compatible before taking the time to add all the ep's and sp's. The original loaded without a problem, it wasn't until I added all the other's that I recieved the error, and upon seeing it load the play game screen thru the original exe for mansion and gardens without an error brings me back to believing its my no cd crack thats junk.

my no cd crack was named Sims2mansionandgardenstuffv1.0NoDVDFixedexe, put it in the programs folder ea/sims2 mansionandgarden overwrote the original sent to desktop like I always do.  I'm fimiliar with using cd cracks, I'm hard on cd's and don't like risking scratches or overrunning them to the point I have to repurchase copy.  As for the reinstall, I was lieing I was hungry and had a taco. busted.
reason #2 why I think its the crack is, if i click on the original exe for mansion and gardens in my start/allprograms/ea/mansionandgardens directory it will launch the play game header without any error. thus promptly telling me to insert my game disk that I do not have.  Insinuating that my crack is faulty not my directx or graphics card.

a one on one sit down is what I need to hash this out.  My online info for contacting me is open for anyone willing to personally help with this, stalkers are welcome I love a long ignore list.  Seriously tho, It's difficult to keep up with all the failed solutions I've been trying, and I'm getting nervous about all these downloaded installers sitting here waiting to be tested.  I think what my next step should be uninstalling all of the sims2 and starting from scratch, I know for a fact the game started after installing the original dvd with the disc in.
I've only had this new pc in my house for 2 days and I shouldn't expect a new os and new everything else to be easy to understand.  But again this game was the ONLY reason I wanted a new pc.  This is why I'm so fustrated, it's pricey buying all the packs and I give much respect for those having committed to buying them despite the costs. anywayz continue giving me ideas while I take an hour or two reinstalling.

LOL I have enough sense not to touch any folders that belong in WINDOWS, hence why I was asking about it.  If the obvious no clue of what I'm doing but am trying to do it anyway personality hasn't been made apparent in my previous posts now you know.  I could not find the wndows updater for directx it keeps trying to give me security updates instead.  Another issue I have to look up.  I did find the dxsetup file in the redistrib running that now.

sorry for my poor writing structure, I tried to fix that just now.  yes I read about how directx11 is supposed include all functions from previous releases too.  My husband plays delta force black hawk down on his new pc, which in essence is the same machine and it works without a problem.  I will check your links as soon as I come back from the store.
 Also I would still like to know where the directx files need to be placed.  I was told once they are located in window/system32/dirx but my windows doesnt have a dirx folder, but I did a search and found some of them in a different folder in system32/winsx or something to that nature, I'll update as soon as I return and check.  
 I looked for an automatic updater for directx on my pc and came up empty but the two links you gave me were a good start for a possible solution...and LOL at the pirated os, its paid for I'm not one who usually 'steals' anything.   Also I've never played the game online, this is completely for my private enjoyment.

**bodyshop loads just fine, this is why I believe it may have something to do with my no cd crack.

same story different day right.  I buy a new pc from cyberpower, research hearing wonderful things about windows 7.  I think great now my newer games will have a decent os to play on, BUT the only game that I ever play on a more constant basis, is my sims2 no offense to the sims3.  As good as the new options and such are, I cannot get past the unrealistic looking characters I keep seeing in videos and trailers for the game.  
Moving on to my real issue.  I have the original dvd for the sims2, and my ep's and sp's are all downloaded from torrent that ran fine on the xp but my pc just couldn't handle the graphics and memory to play at 'my' expectations so I bought a new pc.  
Again getting to my issue, everything installed fine to my knowledge, using daemon tools I installed all my hacked ep's and sp's without a hitch.  I launched with my cracked no cd and recieved a "no directx9 adapter compatible try updating this and your drivers".....so i went and got the directx 9c and directx11feb2010redist and updated my ati 5450.  
The directx did not give me a destination path to place the exctracted files so I am unsure where to really place those, and the update for graphics card did not fix the problem.  I also ran the crack under xp mode and administrater just to be sure I wasnt overlooking the obvious noob related delays of gameplaying fun.
 If anyone knows where I need to place the directx files, this will help me in that regard, BUT I am also thinking the no cd crack may be the problem and if their are newer ones for mansions and gardens, i have dl'd a few from diff sites and I receive the same errors as before.
 My system specs are not the issue here of that I am positive, my ram is 6gb, my processor is 17 930 2.8 ghz , with an asus p6t se x58 crossfire tripl chanl ddr3.
**also I updated my windows7, and spent many days looking for solutions and looking at posts of others with this same error message.  Any help even if it means the obvious, buy them legally replies are welcome just throw me a rope of any kind.