Ketubah styles
Soft, luminous washes and hand-painted color.
Watercolor ketubahs are soft, luminous and personal. Washes of color, painted florals and gentle gradients give each piece a handmade warmth that prints alone cannot match. Many artists offer both fine-art prints and fully hand-painted originals.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Jerusalem, Israel
Judaica Man Weddings paints ketubot in watercolor from Jerusalem, often finished with 24K gold leaf. Subjects run from the seven species and stained-glass panels to a painted moment of smashing the glass.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Our guide walks through modern vs traditional, papercut vs painted, and how to match the art to your text.
How to choose a ketubah