reception - grand entrance

Time for us to enter the reception! We came in through a back entrance and I was SO excited! One of our voiceover talents recorded a little something special to introduce everyone over the tune of "I got a feeling" by Black Eyed Peas. Our wedding party put their own special spin on walking in.

Jonathan & Ashley started us off - and funnily enough, they have the exact same wedding anniversary (married to different people of course! and Ryan was a groomsman for Jonathan and I was a bridesmaid for Ashley).

Danny & Lindsay

Matt & Meg

Jon with Beckie bringing some sass

Lauren reeling in Russell the flying fish

Matt & Holly


But of course, no one could really match the sheer joy we had at being introduced as Mr. & Mrs. Ryan Duckworth:

the wedding par-tay

Here's Ryan & I by our lonesomes:


Here are some of our favorite pictures of the whole wedding party. After the ceremony:
Before the ceremony in the neat box pews:
In front of the big red door:

let's make a deal

Another task I completed last weekend was the gift buying & wrapping for my side of the wedding party. I love buying gifts for people! Shopping for these gifts was so much fun. So just because I love games & teasing...let's play Guess-What-the-Presents-Are!! If this were really Survivor, you could think of this as a Reward Challenge! I can't wait to reveal what they are after the wedding!

Hint #1: These boxes are for the bridesmaids, and they are all identical except for Holly's. They were handcrafted by a coworker.

Hint #2: These gifts are identical, and they are going to our parents. Wrapping paper from Hallmark (love that store!)

Hint #3: The green bags are gifts for my reception hosts, and the pink bags are gifts for the bridesmaids. They are all the same gift, just the hosts have reversed color scheme from the bridesmaids. Also not pictured are 2 smaller pink bags with the flowergirls gifts, which are different from all the gifts I've already mentioned. Confused yet?

Here is the monogrammed stationery I'm using to write all my final notes as a Navarro. A very good friend from college, Erika, gave this stationery to me as a gift our freshman year from a super cute gift store in Baxley. I've only used the stationery a couple times through the years, and I rediscovered it when I was putting the gifts together. It's perfect and I'll be sad when I've used it all up!

website updated & prayer request

So, a lot of exciting wedding events went down last weekend in Augusta. I will try my very best to have a post uploaded about that in the next day or so :) (the problem is that I have 2 laptops and I get caught in a lot of back & forth between the two). To tide you over til then though, our wedding website has been updated, specifically the wedding party page. If you visited when our site first went live, you may have noticed that only my wedding party had pictures. Apparently boys don't keep track of pictures as well as girls do, so it took Ryan a while to get me pics of his wedding party, hehe ;) But they are all there now, with the exception of Matt Ward, Jaden West and our flowergirls, Emily & Catherine.

In other news, I have a prayer request. My Uncle Bub is in the hospital tonight. He couldn't breathe and has been concerned about a lump in his chest. So, he'll be there overnight and getting a CAT scan as well...just pray that everything will be alright! This has been a very trying year for both our families, it seems amazing if we make it to the altar at all. Who knew we would have to take the "survivor" theme so seriously. But, we are going to survive this, and we'll continue to trust God every step of the way. He's not going to let us down!

engagement party

This post is way overdue...my parents threw an Engagement Party for us back in March. It was a great time with family & friends and deeeelicious Filipino food. Mmm. My family decorated with pink & green lanterns and a huge arrangement of pink & white flowers for one of the tables. I will always remember the night because it absolutely downpoured all the way up to and through the party! I hope a deluge at the engagement party is good luck. Anyway, enjoy some pictures that Aunt Debbie took...

Holly (maid of honor) and Aunt Debbie

Holly & Shane

Mom, Dad & me

Ashley (bridesmaid) and her husband Chris

Jon (groomsman) & Ashley, also the back of Danny's head (another groomsman)

Meg (bridesmaid) & her husband Kyle, with a good friend of both Ryan & I, Tricia

the buffet - we had chicken adobo, lumpia (eggrolls), chicken pansit (kinda like stirfried angel hair noodles, veggies etc), barbeque pork on a stick, and rice. The catering was done by Ingrid & Myra of I & M Catering. They did an amazing job and were so easy to work with.

The cake! I love the rubber duckies topper - since I'm going to be a Duckworth in just 3 months! In the background is a frame with some of our favorite engagement pictures, and also pans full of the cutest pink & green sugar cookies, iced with all different patterns and cut into C's and R's. Holly is a very great baker!

I also really loved the lumpia. This is me going back after dessert.

I REALLY enjoyed the mango crepes. I think I had about 6 of them.