I created this ketubah last summer for a couple in California who wanted a special custom made ketubah with real Italian gold leaf applied. They contacted me two months before their wedding and were happy to pay the price that comes with a custom ketubah. I've started scanning a lot of my artwork because I often get e-mails such as "I love the Spanish Ketubah on your website, we're getting married in two weeks, can it be done by then? Also I see it costs $1,050...if you make it a little smaller could you do it for $300?" Or even people who realize the impossibility of that request just don't want to spend so much on their ketubah when weddings are already so costly.
I have two printing houses I work with, one in New York and one in Jerusalem and they do amazing jobs reproducing my artwork and making the originals into giclee prints. They're so good, you really can't even tell the difference between the original and the print. So a week ago I received an e-mail from a man getting married in two weeks and he was interested in the Spanish Gold Leaf Ketubah. Once I received the information from him regarding the actual ketubah text my printers had it ready the next day. I love modern technology! Here is a picture of his ketubah:
The only thing I added by hand was the border text which is the first line of Eishet Chayil and a beautiful poem by Yehuda Halevy:
דרשתי קירבתך
בכל ליבי קראתיך
ובצאתי לקראתך
לקראתי מצאתיך
ובפלאי גבורתיך
קדש חזיתיך
Part of this poem appears on my ketubah as well! So now when I get phone calls or e-mails asking if can have a ketubah ready by next week for a couple of hundred dollars I can happily say, "Yes!"
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