Wedding photography gear #1: A mid to high-end DSLR. I cringe to write that a Canon Rebel or Nikon D3100 would not be suitable for a wedding. I know perfectly well that I could shoot a wedding with those cameras without any problem.
While other types of Lunar Eclipses can be viewed in wide regions of the earth the part of the eclipse that is Total is viewable is a much smaller region. The same can be said for the duration of the Eclipse.
Solar eclipses occur only at a new moon, when the moon passes between the earth and the sun: the moon is entirely backlit and so it's visible only as a shadow. (You can actually see it a very little bit due to earthshine, the light reflected by the earth, onto the moon, and then back.)