Press and Recognition
Designs by Mitra received the WeddingWire Couples’ Choice Award in 2020 and 2022.
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The New York Times interviewed founder Mitra Ghahramani as an expert on Persian Sofreh Aghd ceremonies. Her interview and biography appeared online and in the Sunday print edition on July 23, 2023, in the newspaper’s first dedicated feature on this Persian wedding tradition.
Our work has also appeared in Washingtonian and Philadelphia Magazine.
The feature explored the symbolism and evolving traditions of the Sofreh Aghd.
BBC Persian interviewed Mitra about Designs by Mitra’s Nowruz Haft-Seen décor at the U.S. Capitol.
On March 24, 2025, Rep. Yassamin Ansari thanked Mitra Ghahramani and Parisa Bahadoran of Designs by Mitra by name on the House floor for helping create the Nowruz Haft-Seen table. Their contribution is noted in the Congressional Record.
We also celebrated Nowruz at the World Bank in Washington, DC.
Mitra attended a White House Nowruz celebration as a guest at the invitation of Michelle Obama.
She also attended the White House Nowruz Open House on March 23, 2024, as a guest at the invitation of President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden.
Read the New York Times feature
Watch the BBC Persian feature shared by Designs by Mitra
Read the March 24, 2025 Congressional Record
Watch Rep. Ansari’s Nowruz remarks
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