Artists
The United States is home to the world's largest community of ketubah artists, and the range is remarkable. You will find work from New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston and beyond. Studios here span clean modern prints, hand papercut, silk and watercolor, and fully illuminated commissions. Many ship internationally and offer both signed prints and one-of-a-kind originals, which makes the US a good place to start whatever your budget. We have gathered 26 artists below, leading with the studios whose portfolios are strongest and most distinctive.
Every artist below links out to their own website, Instagram or shop, so you can see their full range and reach them directly. We feature artists editorially, with credit; we do not take a cut of their commissions.
United States
Anna Abramzon runs a boutique studio she describes as contemporary art with a Jewish soul. Her ketubahs are painterly and modern, full of movement and warm color, and she paints custom pieces alongside a signed collection of prints for couples worldwide.
Newton, Massachusetts, United States
Mickie Caspi has been designing Judaica and ketubahs for decades, working in watercolor, gouache, pen and ink, and gold leaf. Her contracts lean traditional and finely lettered, with border ornament that echoes historic illuminated manuscripts.
United States
Stephanie Caplan blends silk painting, watercolor, collage, and calligraphy into ketubahs with a soft, luminous quality. Her work feels handmade and personal, and she collaborates closely with couples on custom color and text.
New Salem, Massachusetts, United States
Amy Fagin creates illuminated ketubahs in the manuscript tradition, using acrylic, pastel, ink, and collage. Under her studio Twentieth Century Illuminations, she treats each contract as a small illuminated painting, richly detailed and built to last.
United States
Rabbi Yonah Weinrib works in the tradition of the illuminated manuscript, combining exacting Hebrew calligraphy with layered ornament, micrography and gold. His studio, Judaica Illuminations, produces ketubot alongside illuminated volumes on the Jewish life cycle, and offers Ashkenazi and Sephardic texts as well as ketubot written on klaf.
United States
Pamela Feldman-Hill has been making ketubot and Judaic art since 1980, working in papercut, painting and print under the Pearl Editions imprint. The ketubah collection runs from finely cut papercuts to painted borders drawn from Jewish ritual objects and the landscape of Israel.
United States
Jennifer Raichman designs laser-cut papercut ketubot in circular and framed formats, layering cut paper over color. The look is graphic and contemporary, with wildflowers, lace leaves and geometry doing the work that painted borders once did.
United States
Melanie Dankowicz builds ketubot as layered papercuts, cutting multiple sheets and stacking them so the text sits inside a shallow relief of trees, vines and blossom. Colorways run from opal and silver to deep plum, and custom commissions are a large part of the studio's work.
United States
Debra Band is a Hebrew manuscript artist whose ketubot carry the same illuminated language as a long shelf of published volumes on Psalms, Song of Songs and Kabbalat Shabbat. Each one is painted with dense color, gold and papercut detail, with the couple's own imagery worked into the border.
Denver, United States
Annie Aqua paints fully custom ketubot in watercolor and hand-letters every word of Hebrew and English herself. The process starts with a video call about the couple's story, moves through sketches, and ends with a one-off painting made for their wedding date.
United States
Yelena Mirchevskaya paints the ketubot behind Studio Yarden in watercolor, with Mediterranean color and a clean, uncluttered layout. Pomegranates, eucalyptus and lemon branches recur, finished on archival paper with gold leaf detailing.
United States
Praise Hashem Art is a California studio making papercut and watercolor ketubot built around Jerusalem: the Old City skyline, the Kotel stones and circular chuppah scenes. Pieces are often finished with gold foil and mounted in plexiglass or wood.
United States
Nishima Kaplan, the artist behind This is Ketubah, works across papercut, painting, and digital design. Her catalog spans clean modern layouts and intricate cut-paper pieces, giving couples a wide range of styles from a single studio.
United States
Susan Leviton pairs delicate papercutting with soft watercolor backgrounds, often painting scenes of Jerusalem above hand-lettered Aramaic text. Her ketubahs have a quiet, devotional feel and a strong sense of place.
Chicago, United States
Judith Joseph is a painter, calligrapher and printmaker whose ketubot are built in egg tempera, india ink and watercolor on ragboard. The work takes cues from illuminated manuscripts, folklore and each couple's own story, and every text is lettered by hand.
Philadelphia, United States
Tallulah Ketubahs is a Philadelphia studio making hand-painted ketubot, wedding stationery and calligraphy. Designs are deliberately open to every kind of couple, and many ketubah patterns come with a matching parents' gift print.
United States
Tchotchke commissions original ketubah designs from illustrators and designers, then prints them to order alongside its Judaica range. Text options run from Orthodox and Conservative through Reform, egalitarian, interfaith, same-sex and non-binary wordings, or a couple's own.
United States
Maybie & Co. is run by Erica and Ben, a husband-and-wife team who design and print their ketubot in Massachusetts. The range is deliberately broad and affordable, with watercolor, minimalist and mid-century designs printed on archival paper.
United States
Micah Parker has been making fine art ketubot since the mid-1990s and was among the first to bring digital art and archival printing to the marriage contract. His Ketubah Studio collection spans mid-century modern, abstract and playful designs, with a wide set of text options.
Montclair, United States
Nava Shoham paints the artwork behind 1-800-Ketubah, working in bright, saturated color across trees of life, hamsas and floral wreaths. Designs are offered as fine art prints with a wide range of text options.
United States
Hadass Gerson runs The Painted Ketubah, treating the document as a dreamy watercolor painting rather than a bordered certificate. Her designs lean on trees, stained-glass color and soft washes, offered as originals and archival giclee prints.
New York, United States
Jessica Tamar Deutsch Studio makes boutique ketubot in a bold illustrated style, with flat color and confident line work. Lions, pansies and pomegranates turn up in designs that read more like a print than a certificate.
United States
Tobi Afran makes handmade watercolor ketubot from a Pennsylvania studio under the name Tobi Afran Designs. Commissions often work a meaningful place into the painting, from a scenic bridge to a couple's own garden palette.
United States
Cali Ketubah is a California studio painting modern ketubot in watercolor, with rings, wreaths and mosaic stars as recurring motifs. The palette is bright and the layouts leave plenty of room around the text.
New York, United States
Ketubah Maven is a New York studio producing handcrafted ketubot with an ornamental, decorative streak. Designs range from reaching garden trees to Persian carpet patterning and sunburst florals.
New York, United States
Elena Berlo designs ketubot under the name Once Upon a Paper, working in botanical wreaths, wisteria garlands and clean gold frames. Texts are set to order and printed, with rush production available for short engagements.