[jazz music]
I'm Louise Wadsworth. - And I'm Will Wadsworth.
We're very interested in
creating events around the eclipse.
and so we decided to the Lunar Ball to celebrate everything Celestial.
Will does weddings and events all the time
but this is the first time we've done one for the community
on this scale.
It's taken two weeks to get everything
ready from a cold field to a tent that's ready for this party tonight
and we're very excited.
We were thrilled to see how many people signed up to come
and pay to come have fun.
So get dressed up,
I mean, obviously, we're wearing some black tie and
there's so many great dresses and people are wearing - women are wearing crowns.
and it's just really fun.
People came out to have a nice time and we're really thrilled about that.
The invitation said dress celestial, formal and celestial
so I think people really did that.
[jazz music fades]
[drum beats]
[band playing “The Middle” by Jimmy Eat World]
We live in New Jersey and we drove up six hours to be here.
I mean, the estate is beautiful.
It's, it's a beautiful night to celebrate
and it looks like a beautiful community
and I'm so happy to be here.
Looking at everyone's outfits
has been so much fun.
Like, I love all the headpieces and jewelry and stuff.
Etsy.
You already had this.
- This is Etsy.
I had this because I'm fabulous.
I got this on Amazon.
I thought anything glittery would work, right? - After the pandemic
when things - days were just blending together
it's really fun to do something memorable.
- It's just an experience that you can't
you can't create it at any other time.
It happens to you. So.
[band playing “Night Fever” by Bee Gees]
[crowd cheering and clapping]
[cheering and music fades]
[playful music fades in]
Okay,
today we’re having the
the lead up to the solar eclipse, of course, and we’ve probably all studied it
a little bit and understand what's going to happen.
We opened up the property
in hopes that people would come and just enjoy some time together.
I think it’s a supposedly a very cool thing to experience with other people.
A lot of local people have come over here from the - from the village
because they can get a clear view of the sky here.
It's just sort of nice to be able to open it up for that.
So apparently scientifically there's things that happen around a full eclipse
like this that are memorable, and I don't know what they're going to be.
So maybe “oohs” and “ahs” from the people.
Sometimes people cry.
It's such an awesome experience for it suddenly to get dark during the day
and then come back to light.
We got to meet really cool people from Baltimore.
Yeah. -Just here to check it out. Here for the eclipse.
[laughing]
Yeah,
we are a little sad that the cloud cover, but apparently we'll be able to see
a shadow come across the valley, is our understanding.
I've heard it supposed to be silent,
like with the animals, they get very still.
That's what I've heard.
So we'll see.
I guess we'll see.
Based on Charlie.
[birds chirping]
[sentimental music fades in]
It was awesome.
Wow. Hard to put to words.
It was so dark.
I didn't expect it really to get that dark.
That it was really like nighttime.
And to look out over the whole valley and see that.
It was nighttime.
The streetlights went on. - I thought I'd be disappointed
that we weren't actually going to see the eclipse.
But no, I wasn't disappointed.
Yeah. It was wonderful. Yeah. Yeah.
I'm still a little bit, uh
I don't know.
Sort of take it all in.
It's hard to believe that can happen.
- Can't imagine if we didn't know what was happening, how you would feel.
[sentimental music fades]