Ketubahs
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The
ketubah, or marriage contract, is one of the defining ritual components
of a
Jewish wedding.
I will work closely with you (and your rabbi) to create a custom ketubah
design that incorporates your desired text, colors, and other personal themes.
(I am also available to do hand-lettering,
using permanent archival ink,
of your custom ketubah text onto a print you have purchased
elsewhere.)
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Mira & James (11" x 14" horizontal)
With some general thematic and color preferences as a starting point,
I found this couple a suitable photograph and stylized it in Photoshop
for a "painted" effect. I then lettered the text by hand onto a
digital print. The English text is in a Celtic-style roundhand script.
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Jen & Jeff (11" x 14" horizontal)
I wanted to give this couple something clean and modern, and since
they mentioned green as a color they liked, I thought a botanical
theme would work well. As the wedding fell just after Shavuot (the
spring harvest holiday), we ended up building a design around this
emblematic sheaf of wheat.
Version 1 (draft):
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Version 2 (final):
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Sherry & Len (English with decorative Hebrew text only; 11" x 14" vertical)
The Hebrew at top and bottom reads, Od yishama
b'arei Yehudah u-v'chutzot Yerushalayim, Kol sason v'kol simcha,
kol chatan v'kol callah. "Again will be heard in the cities
of Judah and the squares of Jerusalem, The voice of joy and of
gladness, the voice of bridegroom and bride."
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Rachel & Jacob (11" x 14" vertical)
Given this couple's first names, we had a clear starting
point for our theme. As it happened, the bride
had some artwork drawn by her mother for her bat
mitzvah invitation -- on the theme of Rachel at the well.
I adapted these drawings for their ketubah and found some
Bible verses to incorporate the story of Rachel and Jacob,
for a very personal and meaningful custom design.
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Natasha & Alex (English with decorative Hebrew text only; 11" x 14" horizontal)
My college friend Aleksey and his bride found a painting they loved
and got permission from the artist,
Jim Warren,
to use a digital version of it in their ketubah. I set the type for them
and produced a high-resolution PDF, which they downloaded and took to their
printer in Australia. This happy ending was brought to you entirely by
the magic of the Internet!
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Johanna & Eric (16" x 16")
This couple had in mind an Art Deco theme, to be executed in
their favorite color: deep purple. The center was reserved for
a photo from their wedding, to be added after the fact.
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Lisa & Jay (interfaith text, English and Hebrew)
This couple had ordered a blank
print
from ketubahworks.com and needed
their customized text applied to it. This document is a mocked-up layout
of the text, which I then calligraphed by hand onto their print.
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Christine & Lyn (8.5" x 11" vertical)
I typeset the English and Hebrew text, and one of the brides
added her own artwork to the printed copy afterwards.
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