Orell the Eagle Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 Having just finished aSoS, this seems to be the book of many interesting weddings! To my count, there are FIVE weddings in this book, four of which we see.....1.) Sansa and Tyrion, 2.) Robb and Jeyne Westerling (we don't actually see), 3.) the Red Wedding (Edmure Tully and Roslin Frey), 4.) Joffrey and Margaery Tyrell, and last but not least...5.) Littlefinger and Lysa Tully. I'm just curious to know what is everyone's favorite wedding? Obviously the Red Wedding is pretty disastrous and awful...My personal favorite is Joffrey and Margaery's, not only because the sadistic little bastard king finally dies...(and I really wish he died a more horrible, gruesome death!)...but because of Tyrion's cynical, drunken reactions to the absurd extravagence of it all.Also, I just have to say, it really annoyed me that Sansa would not kneel for Tyrion at her wedding when they exchanged cloaks. Tyrion tugged at her three times! Would it have killed her to kneel? Poor Tyrion! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwoHeadedSnake Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 I don't really care for weddings (except for the one I was in) because big tough guys such as I aren't supposed to cry ;) What I do like are receptions--the wetter, the better. While I don't remember reading about anyone dancing the Chicken Dance, the best party following a wedding in this book was Joffrey's. Humiliation, royal bottom-showing, two-fisted drinking, pigeons, dog and pig show, capped off by regicide. Now THAT'S a party! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
princethomas Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 Joffrey's wedding was awesome in the books. The back and forth between Tyrion and Sansa's POVs made it fantastic. Tyrion's hatred for Joffrey and Sansa's terror, made it an incredibly tense bunch of pages.If anything in Season 3 is going to warrent an entire episode devoted entirely to it, its this. The Red Wedding is very overrated. Its just that it gets called the Red Wedding. The wedding and reception alone are pretty tame its just the devastating turn of events after that is huge.J's wedding and reception however is pretty exceptionally bizarre all the way through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktwse Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 With regards to the HBO series, it'll be interesting to see how they solve the RW, given that so far, Bolton hasn't been properly introduced. I still think it would make for some awesome scenes with all the forebodings and the tension leading up to the slaughter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaqen Hghar Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 Bolton hasn't been properly introduced.Speaking of which - shouldn't Roose Bolton's wedding to Fat Walda be added to the list in the original post? It's a wedding we don't actually see but neither did we see Robb's wedding to Jeyne as mentioned by the OP. Or are Bolton and Fat Walda merely betrothed and to be married later? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGriffonReborn Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 Joffrey's wedding was crazy, and very entertaining, but what transpires at the Red Wedding is legendary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orell the Eagle Posted August 10, 2012 Author Share Posted August 10, 2012 Speaking of which - shouldn't Roose Bolton's wedding to Fat Walda be added to the list in the original post? It's a wedding we don't actually see but neither did we see Robb's wedding to Jeyne as mentioned by the OP. Or are Bolton and Fat Walda merely betrothed and to be married later?Yes, good point...Roose Bolton did in fact marry Fat Walda. So wait, why exactly did he decide on Fat Walda, out of all the other Frey girls he had to choose from? Does he just have a thing for fat chicks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyria Targaryen Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Oh... Joffrey's wedding was my favorite. In fact, the complete and total awesomeness of Joffrey's wedding allowed me to forgive GRRM for everything I hated in the first half of the book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Euron Swagjoy Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Yes, good point...Roose Bolton did in fact marry Fat Walda. So wait, why exactly did he decide on Fat Walda, out of all the other Frey girls he had to choose from? Does he just have a thing for fat chicks?Walder Frey offered Roose his wife's weight in silver, so Roose chose the fattest Frey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaqen Hghar Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Yes, good point...Roose Bolton did in fact marry Fat Walda. So wait, why exactly did he decide on Fat Walda, out of all the other Frey girls he had to choose from? Does he just have a thing for fat chicks?As the Prince of Winterfell mentioned, Roose Bolton was offered his wife's weight in silver as dowry, and being a practical man he chose the heaviest girl available to maximise the dowry. There is even a passage where Fat Walda smugly notes that for the first time she's proved to have something her competitor Fair Walda did not :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fredzanityy Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 No doubt that Robb and Jeyne was the most romantic, but I think the red wedding was the most interesting to read. Never has a book raised my pulse the way RW chapter did it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alisa Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 Well I hated the Red Wedding for obvious reasons. It was fantastically written, shocking and disturbing but I can't list it as my favourite.Joffrey's wedding was probably my favourite just because it ended with his death and Sansa's escape. Plus, the change from Sansa's POV to Tyrion's was very well done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starkey Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 The funniest wedding for me was Littlefinger and Lysa... well their wedding night anyway (screams).The best wedding was Joffrey's just because I had been waiting so long for him to die.The most disturbing wedding... the Red Wedding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viserys's Queen Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 The Red Wedding! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quentyn Baratheon Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 The Purple Wedding of course. Pumpous and fastuous, just like a Lannister-Tyrell mariage should be, and of course, Joffrey's death is icing on the cake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParadiseSeeker Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 Joffrey and Margaery's of course. Because of Tyrion being funny, because of that tremendous prick finally being dead (can't even wait to see that in the TV show) and... well, as Jaime said it, a wedding like no other King's Landing has every seen - 77 courses and a kingslaying. (Or something like that.) I loved it. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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