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Totality of the heart: Dozens of couples participate in mass wedding ceremony during eclipse

Totality of the heart: Dozens of couples participate in mass wedding ceremony during eclipse
CHAMPIONSHIP MATCHUP CHARLIE CLIFFORD WLWT NEWS FIVE SPORTS CHARLIE THANK YOU SO MUCH. LOVE AND COSMOS INTERTWINED TODAY IN TRENTON HERE IN THE AREA AND BUTLER COUNTY AS MANY COUPLES SAID THEIR I DOS. YEAH. THE MASS WEDDING WAS HELD UNDER THE VANISHING SUN AT THE TRENTON COMMUNITY PARK AND OUR WLWT NEWS FOUR’S KARIN JOHNSON WAS THERE TO WITNESS IT ALL. SHE’S LIVE NOW. KARIN BOY. A PRETTY SPECIAL MOMENT FOR THOSE COUPLE. YEAH. YOU KNOW, SHERRY, IT WAS. AND I’M GOING TO LET YOU IN ON MY SOFT SIDE HERE. I THINK I ENJOYED TALKING TO THEM AND HEARING THEIR LOVE STORIES. AS MUCH AS I ENJOYED THE ECLIPSE OF TRENTON’S MAYOR, BRIAN PERRY. HE’S THE ONE WHO OFFICIATED THE WEDDING. THE COUPLE SAID THEIR I DOS AND THEN THEY TURNED AROUND. THEY LOOKED UP, THEY PUT ON THEIR GLASSES, THEN LOOKED UP AND THEY GOT TO ENJOY THAT. SPECIAL MOMENT TOGETHER. THAT WAS FOLLOWED BY A FIRST DANCE AND NOT WHAT YOU’RE THINKING. TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART. BUT BUT THE SONG DANCING IN THE MOONLIGHT. I HAVE TO TELL YOU, WE WERE OUT HERE MEETING AND TALKING TO SO MANY PEOPLE. WE MET A FOUR SIBLINGS ORIGINALLY FROM TRENTON AND ALSO THEIR SIGNIFICANT OTHERS. THEY DECIDED TO COME BACK HERE TO RENEW THEIR VOWS TOGETHER. ANOTHER COUPLE FROM CINCINNATI’S WEST SIDE HAS BEEN TOGETHER, NOT MARRIED, BUT TOGETHER FOR 32 YEARS. THEY HEARD ABOUT THE EVENT AND THEY SAID, YOU KNOW WHAT, 32 YEARS, LET’S JUST GET MARRIED AND WE MET A COUPLE WHO ARE BUILDING A HOME HERE IN TRENTON WHO WAS CELEBRATING SECOND CHANCES AND SAID IF THIS WAS GOING TO BE THEIR HOME, WHY NOT JUST GET MARRIED HERE? ALSO? AND THEN OF COURSE, THERE’S SAMANTHA AND GERALD, TWO OF MY FAVORITES WHO JUST MOVED TO TRENTON FROM DETROIT. AND I GOT TO SAY, JUST GOT GOT TO LOVE THEIR HONESTY. THE LOVELY TOWN OF TREND DECIDED TO PAY FOR OUR VENUE. THEY PAID FOR THE PHOTOGRAPHERS AND AND I MEAN, WE DIDN’T HAVE TO DO ANY PLANNING FOR IT, SO WE DECIDED TO DO IT FRIDAY MORNING. AND YOU SAID NO FAMILY DRAMA. YES. THERE’S NO FAMILY DRAMA. YOU DON’T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT PEOPLE NOT WANTING TO BE. PEOPLE WANT TO BE HERE. EVERYBODY HERE WANTS TO BE HERE. AND IT’S REALLY NICE TO BE AROUND EVERYONE AND I GOT TO SAY, TRENTON REALLY DID IT RIGHT. NOT ONLY DID THEY HAVE THE AWESOME PLAYLIST, THEY HAD THE PHOTOGRAPHERS OUT HERE, BUT AFTER THE CEREMONY AND AFTER PEOPLE GOT TO EXPERIENCE THE ECLIPSE, THEY HAD THE CUTTING OF THE CAKE AND A CHAMPAGNE TOAST. YOU REALLY FELT LIKE YOU WERE CELEBRATING DOZENS OF COUPLES WEDDINGS. REPORTING LIVE IN TRENTO
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Totality of the heart: Dozens of couples participate in mass wedding ceremony during eclipse
Some couples made Monday's extraordinary event even more special, as they said "I do," to spending the totality of their lives together as the eclipse reaches totality.Trenton's Mayor Ryan Perry officiated the weddings.Couple's said their "I do's" and then put on their glasses and got to experience the once-in-a-lifetime event.That was followed by a first dance, not total eclipse of the heart, but dancing in the moonlight.We met 4 siblings, originally from Trenton and their significant others who gathered here to renew their vows.Another couple from Cincinnati's west side has been together but not married for 32 years, heard about the event and said lets do it.And we met a couple building a home here in Trenton, who was celebrating second chances and said if this is going to be home, why get married here also. The ceremony was followed by cutting of the cake and of course a champagne toast.

Some couples made Monday's extraordinary event even more special, as they said "I do," to spending the totality of their lives together as the eclipse reaches totality.

Trenton's Mayor Ryan Perry officiated the weddings.

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Couple's said their "I do's" and then put on their glasses and got to experience the once-in-a-lifetime event.

That was followed by a first dance, not total eclipse of the heart, but dancing in the moonlight.

We met 4 siblings, originally from Trenton and their significant others who gathered here to renew their vows.

Another couple from Cincinnati's west side has been together but not married for 32 years, heard about the event and said lets do it.

And we met a couple building a home here in Trenton, who was celebrating second chances and said if this is going to be home, why get married here also.

The ceremony was followed by cutting of the cake and of course a champagne toast.