Most people arranging a funeral are doing it for the first time with little prior experience. The Office Of Fair Trading described it as a “distress purchase”. These helpful hints can help to save on costs and to get what you want.
- Set a budget and manage your choices.
- Consider burial choices, churchyard, municipal cemetery, woodland site and private land – yes, private land.
- You can choose from a range of coffins, pine, willow, bamboo, banana leaf, oak, cardboard and more apart from the normal veneered chipboard.
- You can hold the funeral at the graveside, in a community hall, at home, in the garden, wherever you want to, not just in a church or crematorium. We have a beautiful ceremony hall by The Dart.
- Family or friends can be involved in bearing or transporting the coffin to the funeral, decorating the coffin or ceremony space, speaking or playing music at the service and more.
- You can choose an independent celebrant to lead the ceremony who will reflect the views of the person, a religious minister, a friend or family member.
- You can choose your own content, music and words for the ceremony. Not everything needs to be funereal. It can be a celebration of a life as well as mourning a loss.
