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Russell Matthews

&

Aida Matthews-Montijo

Russell Matthews

&

Aida Matthews-Montijo

October 26, 2024

Princeton, New Jersey

Expedition Life

The Adventure of a Lifetime, and a Lifetime of Adventure!

We're truly blessed to have celebrated an extraordinary wedding weekend with so many close friends and family. Thank you for your unwavering encouragement, your loving support, and your prayers for our happiness! For the ceremony attendees, we hope you enjoyed our special recessional music arranged for and dedicated to guests who embarked on their own adventure to attend our wedding. What an experience, what an journey - and now on to our expedition honeymoon as we venture to Pago Pago, American Samoa, to continue our search for Pan Am's historic aircraft, the lost Samoan Clipper. [Images by Zlatko Batistitch Photography]

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Wedding Registry

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We're excited to share this celebration with you and with the community that brought us together! Rather than a traditional wedding registry, we coordinated with The Explorers Club [501(c)3] to create a dedicated investment fund that will each year provide an annual grant for ongoing exploration. In lieu of gifts, please join us in building the Matthews-Montijo Grant for Continuing Exploration. Your tax-deductible donation in any amount makes you a founding partner in this fund, and it will allow us to share our passion for exploration with others by providing a much-needed financial boost to a select expedition led by a deserving Club member.
Let's Make Exploration Happen!
It's easy! Click the View button and go to our giving page.

Snapshots of Our Life

The adventure of a lifetime, and a lifetime of adventure!
Just 24 hrs post-engagement, R&A find themselves at the iconic Diddly Squat Farm Store owned by UK's TV-host turned intrepid farmer, Jeremy Clarkson... and did most of their Christmas shopping there.
As the day's last bit of light settles on Highclere Castle, R&A feel delighted with their new engagement!
Taken at Highclere Castle's south lawn with the estate rolling behind them, about 15 minutes before Russ proposed to Aida!
This is Russ & Aida's official ECAD portrait taken by NPS's exceedingly talented Brett Seymour in the Marshall Islands.
On The Palawan. Russ and Aida pictured here diving a Japanese WWII shipwreck resting at 120ft underwater during their April 2023 research trip. The couple that expeditions together stays together.
Reaching New Heights in Love. Atop Mt. Washington, officially designated as having the worst weather in the world - but these two bring blue skys with their sunny dispositions.
What's a 'meet-cute'? It's when a 1680s Privateer meets a 1980s Private-Eye on Halloween! Russ and Aida may not always coordinate on costumes, but they always sync up on humor!
A First Portrait. Taken during The Explorers Club Annual Dinner event in NYC, April 2022, these two explorers show how classy they can be.
For all the days along the way
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