Look­ing for a per­son­al touch from an artist who’s al­so a writer, pho­tog­ra­ph­er, and pub­lic speak­er? Ke­tubah de­sign­er Gi­lat Ben-Dor presents orig­i­nal and unique wa­ter-col­ors and pho­tog­ra­phy-based Ke­tubot on her site Ke­tubah Spir­it. An Is­raeli cur­rent­ly based in Ari­zona, Gi­lat has cre­at­ed around 35 de­signs her­self for a range of styles for those look­ing for any­thing but the av­er­age Ketubah!

Hei­di and I loved that her site de­scribes her style as “An­cient tra­di­tion meets con­tem­po­rary flair,” and we can def­i­nite­ly see her per­son­al style shin­ning through her work! She has cre­at­ed sev­er­al Ke­tubot by plac­ing texts in the fore­ground of her pho­tog­ra­phy, in­clud­ing scenes from Is­rael such as the West­ern Wall, while oth­ers fo­cus on her use of graph­ic de­sign or wa­ter col­or paint­ings. It looks like the site is a bit on the old­er side, and a new lay­out could re­al­ly bring out the beau­ty of her style.

Ben-Dor’s Is­raeli roots def­i­nite­ly shine through her work, and we love the spunky fact that she’s al­so a Pro­fes­sion­al Mem­ber of the Na­tion­al Speak­ers As­so­ci­a­tion! Among those on the site we did­n’t see any­thing we ab­solute­ly loved, but we would have liked to see more! We Def­i­nite­ly ap­pre­ci­at­ed her flex­i­bil­i­ty on text op­tions, and it looks like she has more than we could count!

We al­so loved the fact that her busi­ness seems very open, and we would­n’t feel shy about giv­ing her a call to dis­cuss the de­tails of our Ke­tubah. We love great cus­tomer ser­vice, so we were thrilled to see it! As a strong sup­port­er of Is­rael my­self, I liked the idea of sup­port­ing an Is­raeli artist, though Hei­di most­ly loved the de­sign with hearts!