From 25 - 31 March 1969, five days after their marriage in Gibraltar on 20th March, John and Yoko took over Room 902, the Presidential Suite on the seventh floor of the Amsterdam Hilton for the 'happening' which came to be known as the Amsterdam Bed-In for Peace. John and Yoko believed that wherever they went for their honeymoon they would be hounded by the press and therefore decided to exploit the press to their own ends and stage a demonstration for peace that would draw the attention of the world's media. Dressed in white and striped pyjamas they invited the press into their flower-filled bedroom, having rearranged the furniture to give more space, and covered the walls and windows with their hand-made posters expounding their slogans calling for love, peace and freedom. The press came in their hoards, initially in the hope that they'd witness the Lennons consummate their marriage, the couple however manipulated this intrusive voyeurism to their own ends using their private honeymoon bed as a public stage. In the words of Lennon in 1969 they had demonstrated their belief that ...Our life is our art. That's what the bed-ins were. When we got married, we knew our honeymoon was going to be public, anyway, so we decided to use it to make a statement. We sat in bed and talked to reporters for seven days..In effect, we were doing a commercial for peace...

This document is a reference to a film entitled Honeymoon which was an hour of edited highlights from the extensive fly-on-the-wall footage shot at the bed-ins by the Lennons' chosen film crew.