Modern Ketubah is proud to now offer interfaith couples three new texts written specifically for them. I have written these new texts to honor how an interfaith marriage represents the coming together of two traditions, a merging of two different families into one new, stronger one. Here are a sample of what each new Interfaith text says:
- Interfaith 1: “Our lives are now forever intertwined. Our similarities will bind us, our differences will enrich us, and our love will define us.”
- Interfaith 2: “We approach this ketubah as two individuals with different backgrounds and individual lives, but shall leave it as one couple, one family, joined in love and commitment to each other.”
- Interfaith 3: “We will create a home built on the foundations of our traditions, and nurtured by the values of our families.”
Learn about all of the options you have available for your interfaith ketubah. To read these new texts, visit my page on text options for your ketubah and choose Interfaith 1, Interfaith 2, or Interfaith 3 from the menu for English texts.
Modern Ketubah is proud to now offer interfaith couples new choices to better customize their ketubahs. Each of my ketubah features a large poetic verse incorporated into the design. These verses usually come from Jewish tradition, such as “Ani l’dodi v’dod li” (I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine), which a very popular phrase for Jewish weddings which comes from the Song of Solomon.
To help interfaith couples make their ketubah more inclusive of both of their traditions, I have added a number of new poetic verses from a variety of non-traditional and non-religous sources, including Aristotle, Thoreau, and Ghandi. Through these words, any couple should be able to find a sentiment that best expresses what their ketubah means for them:
- Love must be as much a light as it is a flame (Henry Thoreau)
- Life is the flower for which love is the honey (Victor Hugo)
- To live without loving is not really to live (Moliere)
- Where there is love there is life (Gandhi)
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies (Aristotle)
These verses can be added to any of my designs. To see all of the verses available for your ketubah, visit my page on options for your ketubah. If you have a suggestion for another verse, please let me know.
Nicole and Jonathan sent me these beautiful photos of their ketubah signing, saying “We want you to know that the Ketubah was a huge hit — everyone loved it! Thank you for creating such a special Ketubah for us. It’s a beautiful piece of artwork in our home!”
Nicole and Jonathan’s ketubah is ‘Petals‘, a design I created from one of my photographs of a gerbera daisy. The photographs of the signing ceremony were done by Emile Marino.
If you’d like to share photos of your own ketubah signing, I’d be honored to show them. Just let me know.
One of my clients, Jill, wrote something that made me laugh:
Your designs are not all “Chagall and primary colors and Judaica” art. That is not our style. So when I saw your photos, I thought, “Thanks heavens, someone with good design sense is making a ketubah!”.
Thank you Jill, I really appreciate hearing that. I work hard to instill a good sense of design in my ketubahs. I was a graphic designer and creative director for 15 years before starting my own business, so I am very proud of my design skills. When I started Modern Ketubah, my goal was to combine my love for design and typography with my love of nature photography. I believe that of all the art in your home, your ketubah needs to be designed well. The art needs to be balanced with the words. The text needs to be typeset carefully, and with sensitivity to the unique qualities of English and Hebrew. The ketubah needs to be printed with close attention to craft, and a full understanding of making archival art with paper and ink. The ketubah is more than something you just need to buy for your wedding — it is a part of your home, forever.
As a creative director, I worked for many companies, big and small. I even had the honor to develop the brand identity for one of the world’s most well-known companies, Yahoo!. But despite that, I have to say that it has been creating ketubahs that has given me the greatest and most fulfilling design challenge of my career.
If you are interested in my artwork, and would like to learn more about my influences and methods, check out these links. This month I was chosen to be the current Featured Artist on Area of Design, an organization that showcases established and emerging artists. I was also interviewed on Positive Focus, a nonprofit organization for “emerging photoartists” based in Brooklyn. These are both great sites, and it’s an honor to be among all of the wonderful artists that they have chosen before.
