Hundreds Flock to Arkansas Field for Mass Wedding During Solar Eclipse

Hundreds of couples have flocked to Arkansas to say “I do” just before daytime turns to darkness during Monday afternoon’s total solar eclipse—a “once-in-a-lifetime experience” that’ll be held in the middle of a rural field.

The event, Total Eclipse of the Heart, promised on its website to offer “astro-loving” couples a chance to wed—for free—just before the sun fully slides behind the moon and creates approximately four minutes of total darkness there.

The lovebirds have convened on Russellville, Arkansas, for the unique eloping—a town of 30,000 between Fayetteville and Little Rock that’s squarely in the middle of the eclipse’s totality zone.

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