4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Please join us for a cocktail party at the Fechin House garden hosted by Sherry and Arjang Abedi. We will begin the weekend with a Persian ceremony, which will include a traditional reading in Farsi, and conclude with an acknowledgment of vows around the Sofreh Aghd table. Designed and built by renowned painter Nicolai Fechin between 1927-1933, the Fechin House is an architectural masterpiece that is on the National Registry of Historic American Homes and the State of NM Registered Cultural Properties.
2:00 pm
San Francisco de Asis is an 18th century adobe National Historic Landmark. Constructed of mud and straw sun-dried adobe bricks, this church still stands as one of the few original buildings in Taos. It was a favorite artistic subject of Georgia O'Keefe and Ansel Adams.
3:00 pm
Dinner and dancing to follow ceremony. The event will be held both inside and outside. It could get chilly as the sun goes down. Perched atop Outlaw Hill, the Stakeout overlooks the Rio Grande Gorge and Taos, New Mexico with sweeping views of the same mesas and Sangre de Cristo Mountains that captured the heart and imagination of Georgia O’Keeffe.