Editing Bedding (section)

==Recent Events==
===''A Storm of Swords''===
The forced wedding between [[Tyrion Lannister]] and [[Sansa Stark]] was to be followed by a bedding ceremony. Though the tradition had seemed wicked and exciting to her growing up, when faced with the actual bedding with a husband she did not choose, Sansa felt only dread. Tyrion chose not to proceed with the traditional ceremony, despite his nephew King [[Joffrey Baratheon]]'s protestations. When the pair were alone, he could not go through with consummating the union against her will.{{Ref|ASOS|28}}

The feast of wedding the between [[Edmure Tully]] and [[Roslin Frey]] was followed by a bedding ceremony. [[Catelyn Tully]] mistakenly presumes the bride's strange and fearful mood was in anticipation of the bedding. After the new husband and wife depart, Roslin's Frey kin butcher their [[House Stark|Stark]] guests{{Ref|ASOS|51}} in a crime that came to be known as the [[Red Wedding]].{{Ref|ASOS|54}}

When King Joffrey Baratheon was [[Purple Wedding|wed]] to Margaery Tyrell, nobody was permitted to leave the feast before the bedding ceremony. No such bedding would take place, for Joffrey was murdered and choked to death during the feast.{{Ref|ASOS|60}}

===''A Feast for Crows''===
A bedding ceremony followed the wedding of [[Renly Baratheon]] and [[Margaery Tyrell]]. According to [[Taena of Myr|Taena Merryweather]], who helped disrobe the groom for the bedding, Renly was well-made and lusty. She recalled Margaery's brother [[Loras Tyrell]] carrying her up the steps. Taena alleged to Queen [[Cersei Lannister]] that, contrary to claims that Renly was too intoxicated to perform, Margaery was surely no longer a maiden.{{Ref|AFFC|28}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
At [[Daenerys Targaryen]]'s request to hear more about her father, King [[Aerys II Targaryen]], both good and bad, Ser [[Barristan Selmy]] recounted with some consternation what occurred between Aerys and Lady Joanna Lannister at her wedding to Tywin Lannister.{{Ref|ADWD|43}}