How Game of Thrones Designed Joffrey’s Wedding

 
  

Joffrey’s royal wedding needed to embody everything tacky and expensive about the boy king, and for Sunday’s episode, “The Lion and the Rose,” written by George R.R. Martin himself, the show’s producers went for even more ostentatiousness than was in the book source material. And it was an especially tricky — and secretive! — production: The reception was shot in 100-degree heat in Croatia over five days (longest wedding ever), and most of the meticulously handmade props and set pieces were created and shipped in from Belfast. As with most weddings, it all went off gorgeously, except for that one thing that happened.  

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How Game of Thrones Designed Joffrey’s Wedding -- Vulture