red wedding
Bloody marriage celebration
A red wedding is a wedding that turns into a massacre—guests slaughtered by their hosts in violation of hospitality.
The term comes from George R.R.
Martin's *A Song of Ice and Fire* series and its television adaptation *Game of Thrones*, where the Stark family is betrayed and murdered at a wedding feast.
The phrase now applies to any dramatic betrayal at a celebration: The company merger announcement turned into a red wedding when they fired half the staff.
- Game of ThronesDragons and intrigue
- feastElaborate ceremonial meal
- treasonBetraying one's nation
- betrayalBreaking of trust
- bloodBody's oxygen carrier
massacre · bloody murder · wound · plot twist · shock value · fan reaction · arrow · alliance · blood oath · ambush · backstabbing · knife · corpse · dagger · Stark · ceremony · blade · coup
- fictional customsnaming day, Festivus, trial by combat, initiation rite, manhood ritual
- color + place nameswhite room, blue room, green room, White House, blue zone
- TV catchphrasesbazinga, how you doin, pivot, yada yada, doh
red weddingdream wedding
Idealized marriage celebration
fairy tale wedding · happily ever after · white wedding · royal wedding · wedding feast
red, wedding, redden, reddish, redness, redder, reddest, wed, weds