" The two were wed in August 1561, during a weeklong bacchanal that included a jousting tournament and a public bedding (a charming custom in which bride and groom were conveyed to their chamber by jovial wedding guests, dumped into bed amid much ribald joking, and left to consummate the marriage while folks sniggered outside the door). "

― Linda Rodríguez McRobbie , Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History—Without the Fairy-Tale Endings