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Claire: We actually met through a dating app! For our first date we went to a local brewery, I was 30 minutes late because I lost my car keys, but luckily she waited for me! Although we only had one beer each, we sat outside talking until they closed. That whole spring and summer was filled with camping, hiking, swimming, picnicking, reading each other's favorite books, sharing playlists, and finding as many different wildflowers as we could.

Delaney: On our first date, after talking for hours about who we were and what excites us, I realized I couldn't stop thinking about how perfect she was, I felt like I had just met my best friend. I remember it was the second date though, when we were having a picnic on the creek, that I knew. It was a messy picnic and so were we, the honey festival we had just come from left us sticky, our beer was warm, and our watermelon had rolled into the creek. I remember at that date, we were both in the creek, her eyes sparkling with the water in the sun, I knew one day I would be asking her to be my wife. Claire: I first knew Delaney was the one when I drove to her house to pick her up for our second date. She was waiting for me in a wooden kitchen chair in the middle of her front yard reading my favorite book (we had talked about our literary tattoos on our first date) and wearing overalls. Embarrassingly, I too had decided to wear overalls for the date. I remember the way she looked up from the book and smiled. I got out of the car and asked her if she had a band aid for a minuscule, undeserving of medical attention cut on my finger. She made fun of me but still lovingly and gently applied a bandaid to my finger. Later on that date she said “I’m so excited about you” and I couldn’t have agreed more.

Delaney said she was taking me on a date and as we often surprise each other with planned excursions, I wasn’t suspecting anything. She had planned for us to go hiking at our favorite spot in Auburn. We set up our picnic blanket on the sandy banks of the river. She pulled out all the food for the picnic that she had sneakily packed, with all the foods we ate on our second date (including a watermelon that we somehow managed to drop and roll into the water again - exactly what we did at our first creekside picnic). She asked if she could read a poem she wrote and I was like “yeah sure, okay” but once I realized how nervous she was, I knew something was up. She read the poem off a folded up piece of paper in her pocket and then got down on one knee! We fake propose all the time so I said “Are you serious this time?!” And I knew she was when she pulled out the ring, tied to my favorite handkerchief from my mom. The picnic blanket she used was the one my mom made as favors for my sister Abbey’s wedding and she had brought the quartz crystal that was the favor from my sister Hannah’s wedding, both items we say had soaked up so much love from those days. She wanted me to feel surrounded by the love of my family. We both cried a lot and then went swimming in the river. She did so good! The day was perfect, filled with everything we love and all the things that led us to fall in love, and the ring is amazing. It’s my favorite color blue; the color of water in rivers and the ocean, and the color of her eyes (I told her her eyes were my favorite shade of blue on our first date). I love it and I can’t wait to marry my favorite person.

It felt right for both of us to combine our last names for a new name, rather than taking one or the other's last name. First we started by making a list of different names that were a combination of the letters from both of our last names. The OR come from Roth and the ION come from Adkison. Orion stuck out to us because it is also the constellation that is tied to our astrological star sign. Our birthdays are just a day apart, making us both scorpios, and Orion and the Scorpion are part of the same astrological story!