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sorry i can't help much, our ketubah is one thing we decided to splurge on. we decided that it's a piece of art that we'll be keeping on our wall forever so i was very picky. this is the one we got, it's paper cut. i think it was $250, and then you have to frame it which costs pretty much the same as the ketubah.
We ordered a text-only ketubah for about $80, and then commissioned an artist to make a mat for it. In the end it wasn't really budget friendly (I think it was about $350!) but it was exactly what we wanted, and we could spread the cost out over a couple of months.
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They have some gorgeous ketubah's on this site. I hope to order ours from here!
We did the same thing -- ordered a plain-text ketubah from ketubah.com (they go on sale for as little as $50 sometimes), then got an artist to decorate the border. We went with papercutsbyjoe (he advertises on etsy and has a web site at http://papercutsbyjoe.com/), and he's making us a border with his "branches" design. Again it's not that cheap in total (Joe's work is $200), but it's a little cheaper than the newketubah site, and you can get exactly what you want.
We are having ours custom made by http://www.etsy.com/shop/jenniferraichman similar to the dogwood+lovebirds. $100 total. We wanted simple and elegant - most commercial ketubot are pretty fancy.
We had lots of luck at Ketubahstore.com. They seem to always have sales on certain designs, and have a HUGE selection. Plus they're very helpful there if you have any specific questions, plus they have a lot of different translations.
We're actually having my fiance's brother buy it for us as our wedding gift, so that helped save us in our budget. I hear that's a common tradition.
Ours was also not budget. However, if you check eBay, there are always a lot of them for sale for about $50. We would have gotten one of those except for the fact that as a same-sex couple, we needed completely customized text.
This was ours, the "Embrace" ketubah from 20th Century Illuminations:
I actually painted ours myself. We're doing a low-budget, DIY kind of affair, and FI loved the idea that it would always have special significance.
Ours was well over our budget ($2500) but was a commissioned piece of art. Well worth it- we met with the deisgner, she designed it, we met several times again to finalize the deisng, and then she amde it. Seven layers of hand-painted silk with paper cut-outs over it signifying specials thing sin our life.
Wow @perk, I'd love to see yours. It sounds amazing! We too are looking for a unique piece of art, but something a little more affordable (~$300)
@lairdea: To give you an idea of our ketubah...
I attached two pics. :) It really doesn't give it justice.
It's six layers of hand-painted silk and hand-done paper-cout-outs.
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We also got ours from Ketubah.com ~ We can't wait for it to come in! Here's the border of it:
I've actually asked my sister, who is a sort of artist (not professional, but been doing it for 18 years), to make ours based on some pictures I've found online. I would love any of the ones I found, but the cost is prohibative ($250+? Ouch!) and I want to make some simple design changes that seem difficult on some of the sites. Have you tried etsy? Maybe someone there can make you one for less, but still with beautiful artwork?
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I searched and searched for one, and ended up designing ours in the end, although we were going with a much more secular version anyway so we decided to do it all in English. We're having it printed by a local printshop.
However, if it had been in our budget, we would have gone with Jennifer Raichman, whose work is gorgeous (and available on Etsy). We'd picked her out early since she's a local artist in our city, but unfortunately for us (and fortunately for her!) her ketubahs were shown at a San Francisco museum and then picked up by several large museums last year, and the prices shot up. :( Ah, well. (That said, her work is still very reasonably priced as ketubahs go.)
@Perk---I grew up in your town...small world! :)
We decided to splurge a little, as we think of it as a piece of art. We went with http://www.newketubah.com , and I have to say that Tsilli was amazing to work with. We got exactly what we hoped for, and she was so friendly, too!
New Ketubah has a free template and some rad design ideas if you want to go the DIY route : http://www.newketubah.com/diy/
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hi everybody! just wondering where you have been able to find a pretty and affordable ketubah for your jewish wedding. i LOVE the ones on newketubah.com, but they seem so expensive. i need some new ideas :o).