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While many ketubah* designs can be heavy on the outdated floral elements, JKraftArt.com offers colorful works of art based on nature, architecture and spiritual symbols. JKraftArt.com features ketubot with original designs custom-tailored to your taste, using your images, photos, favorite artists and styles. Check out the gallery.

I especially appreciate that the artist, Jessica Kraft, notes that prices are negotiable depending on the couple's budget. She also does ketubah designs for same-sex couples, which I only recently realized is sorta rare.

*Quick cultural lesson for the gentiles in the house: a ketubah is a Jewish marriage contract.

Some of you may remember my last post about Lara Swanson wedding photography in Washington, DC. Well, she's baaaaack, and this time they've got some amazing photos from a recent wedding in DC, with a bad ass couple named Sarah & Michael.

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The Etsy Wedding blog has done it again, sniffing out gorgeous custom letterpress invitations from Etsy seller Pistachio Press. Nope, they're not cheap. But man, they're inspiring.

Some of you are already familiar with the work of Seattle wedding photographer Jenny Jiménez — she shot the infamous Pixel wedding. But oh, she's done so much more than that, including placing in the PDN Top Knots wedding photography contest.

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Who wants to look like a froofy princess on their wedding day? Seattle wedding photographer Winifred Westergard seems to really get it that not all of us do. Her gallery of wedding photos is filled with refreshingly honest portraits — including this one here, and an awesome shot of a groom who appears to be wearing a pair of delicate white wings — but isn't. Seattle brides, if you're on the hunt for your wedding photographer, definitely take a look at Westergard Photo and see what you think.