Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Year : 2, Issue : 15
Ashley Smith and Gary Knebel have been together for 15 years and planned to get married in 2017 but their plans were put on pause when Smith’s mother passed away. Now, the eclipse will be the backdrop to their vows.
“It’s been on the back burner for a while with my mom passing and stuff. I was taking it pretty hard and now that this eclipse, I feel like my mom is, this is my mom telling me do this. It’s time. It’s ready,” Smith said.
Smith and Knebel are one of the 358 couples preparing to tie the knot at the “Elope at the Eclipse” event in Russellville, Arkansas, where a mass wedding ceremony will take place Monday afternoon, concluding just before totality darkens the skies overhead.
While Smith said she was looking most forward to the “I do,” Knebel said he looking forward to the moment of darkness.
“So we can get that spiritual feeling of unity and everybody can feel all the love at once,” he said. “Because that’s what we need in this world. We need a lot of love.”
Source: CNN
