Home Sweet Home

After our honeymoon we came to what we can call for ourselves "home sweet home"; our apartment! We spent the next few weeks organizing our gifts, writing thank you cards, and setting our new home.

We hope that you will come and visit us as our door is open to all our friends and family.

HONEYMOON

Exactly one week after the wedding day, Nahid and I went on a four day honeymoon. Since we were unable to leave the country due to Nahid's permanent residency application process, we chose the beautiful and romantic city of Quebec as our relaxing getaway destination.

Nahid quickly fell in love with the old city of Quebec as it reminded her of the small town in France where she lived for almost a year.

We stayed in a very nice and cozy hotel right on the downtown strip where all the little cafe's and restaurants were located. Some of the exciting things we did were; we went on a tour of the entire city, went to a revolving restaurant which gave us a beautiful panoramic view of the city, enjoyed a romantic dinner cruise on the St. Lawrence River, etc.










On the way back we stopped in Montreal, where I took Nahid up to Mont Royal and showed her the gorgeous view of the city. I also took her to the Shrine (Maxwell Home) where Ruhiyyih Khanum lived and Abdul'Baha stayed.

We look forward to the many great adventures to come.

MARRIED!!

"We will all, verily, abide by the Will of God."

On Friday July 20, 2007 Nahid Naraghi and Naysan Hariri finally said their vows. It was a beautiful sunny day. We had 250 guests, some of them coming from different corners of the globe including Sweden, Israel, Germany, Australia, Bolivia, USA and Canada.

The bride and groom surprised their guests dancing a fast paced tango right after their first dance.



Click on Our Photos link to view some pictures from our Wedding day.

Pre-Wedding FUN!

Roughly two weeks before the wedding we began to focus and take care of all the little details which are involved in the planning of a wedding. There great team dynamics starting with the help of Nahid's sister Leila and Naysan's aunt Dory, who were the first to arrive. Overtime, the rest of our family members joined and contributed greatly in making our wedding such a memorable one.









Eventhough everyone knew each other from before, after spending more time together it was as if they all grew up together on the same roof as one big family. There was lots of laughter, long nights, and non-stop dancing. We can still here the music in the back of our ears, especially the Persian expression hollered out at weddings and sounds something like "Li-Li-Li-Li-Li-Li-Li-Li".

A HUGE thank you to all of those who helped, we love you very much!

CANADA DAY!

July 1, 2007 was Canada Day a national holiday and together with the family we packed some food and headed out to Niagara Falls. To drive out there would generally take an hour and a half, however due to the holiday it turned out to be a four hour drive!


We first went to Stanley Park, which sits on the border of the USA. In 1912 'Abdu'l-Baha visited this park and afterwards for many years the Baha'is would picnic there. We walked around and sat and listened to a jazz performance before heading out to the falls.

This was Nahid's second time to Niagara Falls. Her first was 5 years ago when she was in Toronto for her cousin's wedding and the first time we met. The day was gorgeous and we enjoyed walking up through Clifton Hills and playing some Air Hockey.









The next time we'll be out there will be for our honeymoon in July.

FAREWELL TO IMAN FERDOWSI

On Saturday June 30, Nahid and I said farewell to one of my closest friends Iman Ferdowsi. He is on his way to serve for at least 2.5 years at the Baha'i World Centre in the department of Information Systems.











We wish him all the best and will definitely miss him, especially at our wedding.

We spent quality time together playing our favorite video game, Mario Kart on SNES.

After the farewell, we went out and spent some quality time with Naysan's parents in a Persian coffee shop.

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On Saturday June 23, during the day we went up north to cottage country for a family friends birthday party. It was full of people of all ages and backgrounds. There were lots of Baha'is and non-Baha'is, which turned out to be a great teaching event.


On Saturday evening we went to the Toronto Baha'i Centre for a talk by Siamak Hariri, the architect of the last continental Baha'i House of Worship located in Chile. He spoke about the process of the creation of the design of the temple as well as what stages they stand at at this present time. The different area's of art concepts and technology such as the idea of perfection from classical art pieces, symmetry and asymmetry, and fractural geometry to the use of highly advanced software programs such as Maya were incorporated for a unique design. It was fascinating to see how a creative mind works.

On Wednesday June 27 we went to Edwards Gardens, which is a major Toronto park that runs throughout the city and took our engagement photos with our photographer. The weather turned out to be perfect eventhough all weather stations forecasted severe thunderstorms.


On Monday July 2 we went for our second photo shooting with the photographer. This time we took Bayan (Naysan's brother) with us to take some pictures as well. The place we chose was right in downtown Toronto. There you find a combination of modern architechture as well as classical style, we used the clasical one which is now part of the University of Toronto. The day was beautiful and the light really helped for the shots.


Please check out the different photos in Our Photos link!