Ketubah styles
Clean, contemporary designs with plenty of open space.
Modern ketubahs strip the form back to what matters: clean type, generous space, and a considered palette. They suit couples who want something that reads as contemporary art on the wall, and they pair beautifully with a Reform, egalitarian or interfaith text. Because many modern designs begin as digital art, they are often the most affordable way to get a polished, personal result.
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.
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
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.
Jerusalem, Israel
David Fisher is a Jerusalem-born graphic designer and papercut artist who uses precision laser cutting to keep traditional papercutting in a clean, modern register. The ketubot are usually round, layered over watercolor, and often finished with 24K gold leaf.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
Our guide walks through modern vs traditional, papercut vs painted, and how to match the art to your text.
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