James Also tells Stephen that Gordon is new in town and that Stephen can kiss the ladies goodbye. He asks his friend James who he is and James says he is the best man of the groom, Damien Girard. Stephen then joins the buffet and notices someone new, Gordon Fetching. Stephen rushes over to the wedding at A Little Salmon Wedding Chapel and apologizes to his cousin Celeste. When Julianne leaves, Stephen's best friend James Briggs shows up to tell him that he is late for Celeste Girard's wedding.
Then, his boss Julianne Charlot shows up to grant him the honor of preparing the food for the Midnight Masquerade. The story starts with Stephen cooking his first meal in his new house. Little does Stephen know that his life is about to get turned upside down. It starts when Stephen Loyal, an accomplished SimCity chef, who leads a quiet and ordered life in the desert suburb of Mesa Flats has been lately unusually busy getting ready for his cousin's wedding and helping his employer Julianne cater the annual Mesa Flats Midnight Masquerade ball.
Midnight Masquerade is a guided game in The Sims Pet Stories.