Idaho natives Scott Busch and Kendra Kisling never expected that after meeting on the dating app Tinder, they would get engaged under the total solar eclipse in Oregon.

But on Monday at Tetherow Crossing on the Deschutes River in Redmond, that's exactly what happened.

The newly engaged couple, who are visiting family in Redmond, were met with cheers and congratulations from strangers amid the 100-plus people gathered at the park to witness the eclipse. The pair have been dating for about three years.

"I was putting my glasses on, and I hear behind me, 'Kendra, I have a very important question to ask you,'" Kisling, 27, said. "And I slowly turn around and saw him on one knee."

Busch said he had been planning to propose during the eclipse for about three months.

"I asked for permission from her parents, and we figured this would be the perfect time to do it when we had some time off and the whole family converged here," Busch, 29, said.

The couple plans to return to their hometown of Coeur D'Alene on Tuesday, and they said their eclipse experience is one they'll cherish forever.

"Of course the engagement was wonderful," Kisling said. "But it being our first solar eclipse, that minute of totality where we were, it was amazing. The view and the darkness and the coldness and the aura that was there, it was spellbinding. It was truly once in a lifetime."

--Olivia Dimmer

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