Weddings On Main Street 2022

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The Psychology of Wedding Films By Brian Lavender Lavender Lane Media

Why do the best weddings make us cry? I believe the overwhelming convergence of significant people, powerful words, aesthetic beauty and emotions might have something to do with it. At the crossroads of my own experiences as a journalist, psychology teacher and filmmaker is the psychological principle of gestalt. Quite simply, gestalt is defined by Oxford Languages as “an organized whole that is perceived as more than the sum of its parts.” Weddings definitely match this definition.


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