If you would like Mickie to fill in your ketubah, please call us or fill in our form online by clicking the personalization link on the left. If your rabbi, cantor or officiant is filling in your ketubah as a contract, we recommend using a black, medium ball point pen. If you are using your own calligrapher to fill in the ketubah, please note that your calligrapher must take full responsibility for any damage done to the ketubah.
To the calligrapher: Among other pens, we have used a Rotring Art Pen with Black Ink Cartridge and a matching nib (depending on the text, we use 1 of 5 different size nibs). If you pencil in guidelines first, please note that erasing pencil marks will remove the coating on the paper and can damage the pre-printed text and art. Erasing is very, very tricky – try not to erase on the pre-printed text at all, as little as possible in general, and as lightly as possible when necessary. We use Hi-Polymer erasers such as Pentel or Staedtler-Mars. You can experiment on the edges of the paper in order to get a feel for how your ink and pen work on the paper.
We strongly recommend that you have us complete the ketubah personalization for you.