Funerals and memorials
Our loved ones deserve a send-off that befits their personality and the life they led. Let’s celebrate them.
As a Celebrant, I will work alongside your Funeral Director to deliver the ceremony you best feel reflects your loved one.
Funeral Directors will guide you through the entire process of understanding what steps to take after your loved one has died. A Funeral Director may either recommend me as a Celebrant, or you can independently choose to work with me. Either way, I will work closely alongside your Funeral Director throughout.
For me, funerals and memorials have a really important role to play in helping families and friends cope with the death of a person they loved. I believe that they play an essential role in enabling the grieving process, but have the potential to make us feel uplifted, even joyful, and grateful for the moments we shared with the person who has died.
A funeral or memorial is an ancient rite of passage. But that doesn’t mean you can’t explore a non-traditional take on a goodbye.
Did you know you don’t have to have a funeral in a crematorium or religious building? This is something that people often don’t know. While you might choose to have your ceremony at a more traditional location, there are plenty of other options.
You could choose your favourite hotel, a rural barn venue or even at your home. If you want your loved one’s coffin present, the Funeral Director you work with can make these arrangements to support your choice.
You don’t have to have your loved one’s body present if you don’t want to and in this case, we can plan a beautiful memorial. Especially with the rise in direct cremation services, more people are wanting to have a memorial to honour the deceased, while also respecting their wishes of not having a funeral.
You might even want an intimate funeral with close family and friends separate to a larger memorial, maybe event with a totally different feel for both events. We can explore so many options.
Funeral or memorial?
Knowing your options
I’ll either be contacted by you directly, or via your Funeral Director. We will arrange a convenient time for me to come and meet you.
When we meet, I’ll listen to you talk about your loved one. I’ll gently ask some guiding questions to help you explore what elements of a ceremony you want to include, as well as allowing me to put together a ceremony script which will reflect their life story.
You might want to include readings, music and photographic elements. I can help make suggestions using my library of resources, or collate all the elements you already know you’d like to include.
I will craft a eulogy which paints a vivid picture of their life story. I’ll also put together the full ceremony script from start to finish which speaks to their personality and the tone you want to set. This will all be approved by you ahead of the ceremony.
It’s completely up to you who else participates in the ceremony and family and friends and more than welcome to deliver any elements. I will support them with their role throughout.
On the day, I will deliver the ceremony and we will make sure that your loved one has a goodbye worthy of them.