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Photo Ketubah Anyone?

Misa125Misa125
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Since FI isn't Jewish, I really am trying to stay away from the traditional Jewish themes of most Ketubahs. I know through my browsing that a lot of the sites offer photo Ketubahs where you can have a photo of you on there instead of the traditional symbols. Has anyone gone this route and if so, how did you like it?
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Re: Photo Ketubah Anyone?

  • alinaandjaredalinaandjared
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    edited December 2011
    This is a great question but I have actually never heard of anyone doing this (or a company that does, sounds pretty cool). you may have luck contacting an artist directly. I think one reason why you haven't gotten responses yet is that I *think* and may be wrong, but that you are not *supposed to* again, may be totally wrong, have depictions of people on Ketubot. I know ours has like a stickfigure/cartoonish and the rabbi said thats more than fine, but not detailed faces.
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  • slbriz34slbriz34
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    edited December 2011
    If you scroll down the post, two folks discuss this very thing.  Title of post is "Your Photo Ketubah" and there is a suggestion for a website that offers this and it would seem to suggest that one of the two gals has tried it (though it's hard to tell). I think you can find lots of lovely, artistic pieces that have no real suggestion of "Jewishness" except for the Hebrew - and you can have an all-English text, so that's not an issue.  There are a lot of places online, or you can come up with an idea and have an artist work with you to create a ketubah that you both will love for years to come.
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  • pwr2sparkypwr2sparky
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    edited December 2011
    We designed our ketubah based on a picture of the lake where we got engaged. We did it in Photoshop. Altered the pic to look like a oil painting and then had a text box with Hebrew and English. We had it printed from a place online as a gliclee print which is how they make high quality replicas of art work. It was printed on archival quality paper and looks great. I highly recommend doing this if you want a unique personalized ketubah.
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