About Ketubah Arts
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About Ketubah Arts *
This really is as good as it looks
Your ketubah will be beautiful, meaningful, and last as an heirloom for future generations
Each ketubah is source of pride and celebration of the future.
Curious about my background?
Read more about me here.
Ginny Reel Freirich
the artist behind Ketubah Arts
I founded Ketubah Arts because I couldn’t find a ketubah I liked. The ones I saw in stores felt generic: mass-produced posters on glossy paper, stamped with foil, filled in by hand, and marketed to someone’s aunt to hang over a plastic-covered couch.
They felt like compromise and defeat, an obligation assigned by someone else for a tradition and future that didn’t feel like my future and my family.
They didn’t speak to who I was. They didn’t speak to my marriage. They didn’t encompass the joy and beauty I saw in the Jewish world.
So I made one. And then I made more.
Art rooted in tradition made for real people
Since 1996, I’ve created hundreds of ketubot for couples across every background
Each ketubah I design is grounded in:
Deep respect for Jewish history and visual culture
A belief that ritual deserves beauty and integrity and that these qualities are important to meaning, connection, and celebration.
A commitment to inclusivity without compromise - I have been making same sex ketubot as a standard option from the beginning, because why wouldn’t I?
Welcoming Interfaith Partners: Our diversity as a Jewish community is not just a strength, it’s a joy and a wonder. I bring in design motifs from other cultures to welcome those we love into our beloved traditions because they bring value and joy into our lives as Jews.
Over the past thirty years, I’ve created ketubot for Orthodox couples, same-sex weddings, interfaith families, non-binary clients, and people who weren’t sure if a ketubah was for them at all. They all wanted something that felt real — grounded in tradition, personal, and made with care.
My work is rooted in Jewish visual history and everything else: ancient manuscripts, 18th-century ketubot, sacred geometry, and modern art. I don’t do placeholders. I don’t do clip art. Every design, whether it is art by me or a text only ketubah meant to be decorated by someone else is made to last, to mean something, and to feel like it belongs on your wall because life should be shaped by beauty and integrity. I don’t design art for weddings, I design art for Jewish life.
A 30-year journey of designing meaningful ketubot
My work has been featured in the revised edition of The Jewish Wedding Now by Anita Diamant and has helped shape the landscape of contemporary ketubah design.
But the best recognition is this: people keep ordering. Not because they need a ketubah — but because they want one that feels like theirs.
Distinctive.
Personal.
Built to last
This Business is all about Love
Extending respect to people of different backgrounds, knowledge levels, and experiences is at the core of everything I make. This includes, but is not limited to: couples who may be interfaith, interracial, same sex, or non-traditional genders, as well as the "getting married in the synagogue with a rabbi" traditional Jewish bride and groom with generations of tradition backing their choices.