Ketubah styles
Flowers, leaves and gardens rendered by hand.
Floral and botanical ketubahs bring the garden indoors. Whether it is the seven species of Israel, a loose watercolor bouquet, or a precise botanical border, flowers remain the most beloved motif in ketubah art, full of symbolism about growth and flourishing.
Melbourne, Australia
Nikki Green hand-scripts and paints each ketubah in gouache, watercolor, ink, and 23kt gold or silver leaf on heavy Fabriano paper. Her contemporary designs blend the visual language of ancient manuscripts with motifs drawn from the Australian landscape, making every contract a one-of-a-kind commission.
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.
Israel
Avigail Sapir designs modern ketubahs shaped by nature, geometry, and a spare, contemporary sensibility. Her layouts are clean and balanced, favoring calm palettes and precise composition over heavy ornament.
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.
Tel Aviv, Israel
Naomi Shiek cuts ketubot by hand in a Tel Aviv studio under the name Woodland Papercuts. The designs are dense and narrative, built from willows, cherry trees and succulents, and on request from whatever the couple's own story asks for.
Israel
Ketubata was founded in 2016 by Dalia Ben-Moshe, a Central Saint Martins graduate, and has grown into one of the busier contemporary ketubah studios. The collection leans on laser-cut lace, mosaic and mandala patterning, with Orthodox, Reform and interfaith texts all available.
Israel
Brit Colors combines watercolor painting with hand embroidery stitched straight through the paper, then finishes pieces with pure gold leaf. The result is a ketubah with real surface texture, in color ranges from royal azure to rainbow.
Toronto, Canada
Bluth's Ritual Studio in Toronto makes scribed contemporary ketubot, pairing hand calligraphy with collage, pressed flowers and architectural motifs. Moroccan doorways and Italian pomegranate collage sit alongside plain hand-scribed pieces.
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.
Israel
Rachelle Tchiprout paints hand-finished watercolor ketubahs from her studio in Israel under the name The Delicate Brush. Her designs are gentle and floral, available both as fine-art prints and fully hand-painted originals.
Toronto, Canada
Rosette Sund is a Toronto-based artist who paints custom ketubahs alongside her broader fine-art practice. Her commissioned contracts are personal and painterly, developed in close conversation with each couple.
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.
Hasmonaim, Israel
Noa Attias makes handmade papercut ketubot in Hasmonaim, finishing many of them with 24K gold leaf. The wider Judaica range runs well beyond the ketubah, and the same cut-paper vocabulary carries through all of it.
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.
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.
Haifa, Israel
KetubaLove is a family studio in Haifa built around veteran Judaica artist Orly Lauffer and her two daughters. Designs run from floral and succulent borders to minimalist silver rings, and can be set with Orthodox, Conservative, Reform or interfaith text.
Jerusalem, Israel
Ayala Ophir cuts papercut ketubot and personalized Judaica in Jerusalem, working in a traditional idiom of symmetrical florals and fine cut lace. Most pieces are hand-painted after cutting.
Jerusalem, Israel
The Ketubah Collection is a Jerusalem studio producing modern printable ketubot, including text-only and minimalist layouts for couples who want the words to carry the design. Files are personalized and delivered digitally.
Hod HaSharon, Israel
Tomasio Art makes contemporary Judaica and ketubot from Hod HaSharon, working in gold-accented florals and tree-of-life compositions. Designs are set to order with the couple's names and date.
Israel
Rena paints ketubot and Judaica in Israel, offering the same designs as originals or prints. Jerusalem blossom and hamsa motifs recur, and fully custom commissions built around a couple's story are a regular part of the work.
Toronto, Canada
Ketubah Garden is a Toronto studio making ketubah prints and custom wedding artwork. Designs are quiet and pared back, built around chuppahs, intertwined trees and rooted-love motifs.
Canada
Aviel Barclay is a Canadian soferet, the first woman to be traditionally trained and certified as a Jewish scribe. Her ketubot are hand-written and hand-decorated, often on parchment, with painted borders drawn from historic manuscript traditions.
Manchester, United Kingdom
SHB Ketubahs is a Manchester studio making hand-painted and printed ketubot and Judaica. Botanical borders and tree-of-life designs are finished with gold detailing, and bespoke commissions are taken for individual couples.
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.
Giv'at Ada, Israel
Shiri Lanzer hand-paints ketubot and letters the calligraphy by hand, working from a studio in Giv'at Ada. Pieces are made on parchment as well as paper, and the designs favor bright, layered color over restraint.
Israel
Micol Bayer designs papercut ketubot and Judaica under the name Micol Designs, working through a guided process from semi-custom to fully bespoke. Magen David geometry and almond buds run through the collection.
Toronto, Canada
Toronto artist Diane Sidenberg has painted Judaica since the mid-1980s, and her custom ketubahs are known for bright, vivid color. She often works in the language of stained glass, collage, and mosaic, giving her contracts a jewel-like glow.
South Africa
Born and raised in South Africa, Angela Munitz draws her ketubah designs from nature observed and painted directly. Her work is soft and botanical, built on close attention to flowers, leaves, and light.
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