“Our goal,” Ms. Ambartsumian added, “is to give our children an investment of their parents’ time, of their learning, and of their exposure to different people, places, thoughts and experiences.”

They plan to continue expanding the collection of some two dozen original works. As the family grows, Mr. Grajewski said, “It will be something that’s ours.”

ON THIS DAY

When Jan. 19, 2019

Where St. Illuminator’s Armenian Apostolic Cathedral, New York

An iPhone Courtship Within days after meeting her future husband, Ms. Ambartsumian took off with her parents for Spain. But Mr. Grajewski was never far from her mind. “The whole trip we were texting and texting,” she recalled. “I felt like a teenager.”

A Style of Her Own Pushing aside the church call for modesty, the bride shed her cape before she sailed down the aisle, revealing a gown that plunged in the back.

Moving Moment Forsaking the traditional “Canon in D” wedding march, Solange Merdinian, a mezzo-soprano, brought many of the guests to tears with a solo rendition of “Ave Maria.”

Crowned Heads Toward the end of the ceremony, the Rev. Mesrob Lakissian placed gilded coronets on the heads of the bride and groom, an Armenian tradition anointing the couple as the rulers of their domestic kingdom.

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