Corey and Tanner met through a mutual friend after she took a summer mission trip to Utah. They knew each other for a few months before Corey decided to join a Spring Break trip to Utah that Tanner was helping to organize. As the trip approached, they started getting closer as friends. On the flight to Utah for this short mission trip, they managed to sit next to each other and had several hours to get acquainted. During the flight, they began to fall in love. Unfortunately, their connecting flight from Long Beach, California, had to turn around due to a snowstorm in Salt Lake City, so they landed back in California and had to wait until the weather cleared to take off again. This situation unexpectedly gave them an additional seven hours to share their stories, laugh together, and realize that they should have been connecting like this months earlier. Their first actual date occurred after Spring Break. They initially planned to get coffee, but both drove home for the last two days of the break after the trip. When they returned to campus, they decided to go out for ice cream together that night instead of waiting for their coffee date. At the ice cream shop, Corey asked the drive-thru attendant for their go-to order and decided to try the recommendation. While they were enjoying their ice cream, Corey accidentally spilled his cup all over his car. He had to go back inside to get napkins and wipes to clean up the mess. They ended up losing track of time, spending several more hours talking in the parking lot. They mistakenly read a clock in the car that had been set back an hour due to daylight saving time that week in Utah.