>> WELL, GUYS, AS OF RIGHT NOW IT’S NEARLY 400 COUPLES THAT ARE HERE IN RUSSELLVILLE ABOUT TO TIE THE KNOT. NOW TAKE A LOOK. PEOPLE ARE STILL REGISTERING TO GET MARRIED. IT’S FREE. ALL YOU NEED IS A MARRIAGE LICENSE AND LOVE. AND SOME COUPLES THAT WE JUST TALKED TO SAY THEY COULDN’T THINK OF A MORE PERFECT TIME TO SAY I DO. TAKE A LISTEN. >> IT’S A VERY SPIRITUAL THING BECAUSE IT’S THE ONLY WHEN YOU GET A TOTAL ECLIPSE, LIKE WHAT WE’RE GOING TO EXPERIENCE TODAY. THAT’S THAT’S A ONCE IN A LIFETIME EXPERIENCE, LIKE GETTING MARRIED. SO WHO BETTER TO SPEND SOMETHING LIKE THAT WITH THAN THE PERSON THAT YOU LOVE THE MOST? AND WHAT BETTER WAY TO HONOR THAT DAY THAN TO GET MARRIED AND SEE A TOTAL ECLIPSE? IT’S JUST IT’S NO MORE ROMANTIC THAN THAT FOR ME. AS FAR AS I CAN SEE. >> I AGREE WE WANTED TO BE MARRIED UNDER THE TOTAL TOTALITY. >> JUST PURE DARK AND JUST STAND THERE WITH MY BEST FRIEND AND GET MARRIED TODAY. >> BE WITH EACH OTHER FOREVER. >> NOW COUPLES FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY RIGHT NOW, THE ORGANIZER SAYS FROM AT LEAST 25 STATES ARE HERE, THE BIG EVENT GETS STARTED HERE IN JUST A LITTLE BIT. COUPLES WILL BE SAYING THEIR VOWS DURING THE PARTIAL ECLIPSE, THEN FOR THE TOTAL ECLIPSE, WE’LL HAVE THE MORE THAN FOUR MINUTES OF TOTALITY TO REMEMBER FOREVER. NOW EVERYTHING’S FREE. BRIDES ARE GETTING THEIR HAIR DONE RIGHT NOW, AND THE ORGANIZER SAYS, EVEN IF YOU DO NOT HAVE YOUR MARRIAGE LICENSE JUST YET, YOU CAN STILL PARTICIPATE AND THEN MAIL IT TO THE COUNTY CLERK’S OFFICE.
Russellville, Arkansas, to host 'Elope at the Eclipse' event
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Updated: 12:14 PM CDT Apr 8, 2024
Arkansas Eclipse Guide | Weather Forecast | Totality Zone Map | Arkansas Map & Table | Traffic Outlook | Events | Closed Schools | How You Can Help NASA | EMS Plans | Eye Safety | Share Photos & VideosHundreds of couples will get married during the total eclipse at a park in Arkansas.Russellville will host nearly 400 couples at the city's soccer complex. They're planning to say their "I Dos" as the moon blots out the sun overhead on April 8, 2024.Carlotta Cox and Matthew Holloway, a couple from Knoxville, Tennessee, who have been planning their eclipse-viewing location for two years, shared their excitement. "It just seems like the coolest wedding that you could ever have," the couple said. The couple explained their decision to choose Russellville over their original destination, Maine. "Our original destination was Maine. The totality there is like two minutes, and then we were looking for something where the totality was longer, and it was here in Arkansas, and then we started looking at private events that were going on, and this is what we found," they said. Katie Baucom, who is also getting married during the event, shared her excitement. "Yeah, I was like, hey, look, here's this an opportunity once in a lifetime type thing," Baucom said. "It's something big. We never really had anything big or major happen to either one of us."
Arkansas Eclipse Guide | Weather Forecast | Totality Zone Map | Arkansas Map & Table | Traffic Outlook | Events | Closed Schools | How You Can Help NASA | EMS Plans | Eye Safety | Share Photos & Videos
Hundreds of couples will get married during the total eclipse at a park in Arkansas.
Russellville will host nearly 400 couples at the city's soccer complex. They're planning to say their "I Dos" as the moon blots out the sun overhead on April 8, 2024.
Carlotta Cox and Matthew Holloway, a couple from Knoxville, Tennessee, who have been planning their eclipse-viewing location for two years, shared their excitement.
"It just seems like the coolest wedding that you could ever have," the couple said.
The couple explained their decision to choose Russellville over their original destination, Maine.
"Our original destination was Maine. The totality there is like two minutes, and then we were looking for something where the totality was longer, and it was here in Arkansas, and then we started looking at private events that were going on, and this is what we found," they said.
Katie Baucom, who is also getting married during the event, shared her excitement.
"Yeah, I was like, hey, look, here's this an opportunity once in a lifetime type thing," Baucom said. "It's something big. We never really had anything big or major happen to either one of us."
