Ketubah styles
Quiet, restrained designs that let the text breathe.
Minimalist ketubahs let the text breathe. A single botanical line, a thin arch, a wash of one color: the restraint is the point. They suit modern homes and couples who want the wording, not the ornament, to lead.
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.
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 Kingdom
Adriana Saipe works under the studio name Ink With Intent, creating modern, minimalist ketubahs in watercolor, ink, and digital art. Her designs are calm and contemporary, with plenty of open space and gentle color.
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
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.
Jerusalem, Israel
Jamie Shear is a Torah scribe and artist who has lived in Jerusalem since 2005 and has written twelve Torah scrolls for communities around the world. Through his Ktavtam studio he writes ketubot to halachic standards and decorates them with micrography, forming ornament out of the letters themselves.
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.
London, United Kingdom
Mordechai Pinchas, also known as Marc Michaels, is a London sofer STaM who writes and repairs Torah scrolls, tefillin and mezuzot, and holds a Cambridge doctorate in Jewish manuscripts. He conducts his scribal work according to Orthodox halacha and writes ketubot on paper or parchment, plain or illustrated, for communities across the spectrum.
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.
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
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.
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.
Toronto, Canada
Love Letters Ketubahs is a Toronto studio working almost entirely in the minimalist register: fine rules, generous white space and typography doing the heavy lifting. Interfaith and Reform texts are standard options.
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.
Our guide walks through modern vs traditional, papercut vs painted, and how to match the art to your text.
How to choose a ketubah