A Bounty of Wildflowers in the Catskills ~ custom papercut ketubah & client photos

"When we received our ketubah we just sat and stared at it. Absolutely thrilled doesn’t even begin to cover it!"

Ariel and Michael are nature enthusiasts who spent years hiking the Hudson Valley, Catskill Mountains, and Adirondacks of Upstate New York. They commissioned me to create a special ketubah that celebrates the untamed beauty of those places.

Custom artwork commissions are a journey for both the clients and the artist. And this is how artwork is also personal for the artist: At the time in my life I got bad news, and I remember thinking I needed to draw something happy, something cathartic - an explosion of wildflowers - and then came Ariel and she was into it! Talk about right time, right place.

Ariel had a pretty good idea of the design brief but left the flowers pretty much up to me. I researched the flora that grows in the Catskills and what flower varieties symbolize health, happiness, fidelity, and more... and I poured all of it into this papercut!

Ariel knew she wanted a color scheme of ivory and silver. I wanted to add a lot of color to the ketubah so I proceeded with a skill I recently started honing, that of carefully puzzling together colorful layers for each petal and leaf. It's painstaking crafting on a different level and this design took hours to complete but the result is so worth it. We ended up going with a silver background which made it incredibly hard to photograph, but the finished ketubah is a masterpiece of vibrant colors!

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When we received our ketubah we just sat and stared at it. Absolutely thrilled doesn’t even begin to cover it!

We love the design and feel like it embodies our story! 

Thank you for making our vision a reality. It is beyond perfect! 

If you’d like an artisan ketubah for your wedding ceremony or celebration,
please get in touch with me here.

For more photos of this Ketubah
GO HERE.

For photos of past client weddings
GO HERE.

| photographer @cristinagphoto
| wedding planner @chivintagewed
| florist @persephonefloral