The air is still fresh; hardy foreigners can head to the beaches on the Lido (where some businesses are still closed). May is really the best month for seeing Italy, with its sunshine, comfortable temperatures and flowers (not so many of these in Venice, of course). Good points: sunshine; comfortable climate.
Weddings are a heightened example of what sociologist Erving Goffman called front stage behavior. Goffman viewed social life as something akin to a performance, where we attempt to manage the impressions we make to others.
This is made possible by means of interaction and by shared resources. Courtship, mating, and fighting reactions however, seem to be evoked by the interaction of a complex of social releasers. For it is the action and interaction of these which lie at the bottom of the mind's development. The Mind and Its Education George Herbert Betts. The simplest aspect of interaction, or its primary phase, is contact.