Tyrion – The oldest friend

For some reason, Tyrion believes that his status as the bride’s “oldest friend” makes him special somehow. Untouchable. Infallible, even. And so he keeps dishing out advice where it isn’t wanted, and acting like his is the most important opinion, and dropping in little anecdotes about his relationship with Dany whenever and wherever he can. He also has a nasty habit of derailing events to suit his own motives: if Tyrion wants to do a PowerPoint presentation, it’s happening. If he wants everyone to contribute an extra £50 to cover the bride’s expenses, best dig out your wallets. And if he wants “Bran the Broken” to be King of Westeros, then there is literally nothing you can do about this. Bafflingly, he will even somehow make everyone else think this is a good idea. And for that we’re sorry.

All we can advise is that you smile beatifically and let him make all the speeches he desires. It’ll all be over before you know it.

Gilly – The pregnant friend

Gilly is pregnant. You may not have noticed in all the excitement (there’s been a LOT going on, after all), but she is. How does this affect you? Well, she wants to know if she can pay less towards the communal food and drinks budget “because I won’t be drinking and it isn’t really fair”.

She’s right, obviously. She’s more than right. But it’ll be hard to remember that when your easy post-dinner plan of “split the bill nine ways” becomes “everyone working out exactly what they had to eat and drink, plus tip on top”. Especially as it’s pretty much guaranteed someone in the group (looking at you, Bronn) will “forget” to include the tip in their calculations.

The Game of Thrones characters you’re guaranteed to meet at every hen party