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Visual Funeral Tributes – Funeral Slideshows
You’re putting together a very special ceremony - the funeral service for a loved one. You are not really sure what’s out there but you know you want a really personal sendoff. How about ordering a visual tribute of photos or funeral slideshow to be shown during the...
Celebration of Life Funerals at Chichester Yacht Club
Here we are at Chichester yacht club and we're just getting ready to have a celebration of life for a funeral service I've just conducted at Chichester crematorium. The venue is ideal for funeral wakes and celebration of life ceremonies and is an absolutely beautiful...
Do You Believe in Fate?
I am not a religious person and would describe myself as agnostic; for when I think about the origin of our beautiful world and all its abundant flora and fauna, I can’t help but feel it can’t be here by chance. I am, however, inclined towards believing that things...
6 Tips to help you to give a funeral reading confidently
Do you sometimes wonder how to speak at a funeral…If you could read aloud at the funeral service of someone you loved; without mumbling but with confidence and respect? When we lose someone truly important, all sorts of feelings and emotions engulf us and it’s easy to...
A Real-Life Celebration of Life Ceremony Story
Hi everyone, I want to share with you a real-life celebration of life ceremony story. When somebody dies, it's often the case that people simply go to the nearest funeral director that they’ve seen or one that has registered with them at some stage and thinks yes, ‘I...
Funeral Celebrant Review
I recently received this lovely review for a funeral service I led in January. I hope it will give you a better idea of what it is like to have a Celebrant write and lead a funeral service that is as special as your loved one. I just wanted to do a review for Caroline...
Writing a Eulogy, Celebration of Life Ceremony or Funeral Service
Writing a eulogy is a unique challenge. What can we do when we have so much to say and so little time? We all know the expression, time flies or should I say ‘tempus fugit’! So when people invite me to create funeral services, ceremonies or eulogies for them, I wait...
Reflections on Unusual Funeral Venues
Recently I had the privilege of taking a service in a slightly different and unusual funeral venue. It was in a chapel, a stand-alone little chapel, very ancient in the corner of an old cemetery and I created and led the service there. I’ve had a really busy time of...
Officiating a funeral for a deaf audience
Working with diversity as a celebrant; are there still new experiences to be had? Today I'm sharing my experience of officiating a funeral for a deaf audience. It is certainly not news but simply nature that all human beings are destined to die at some stage, sadly...
Funeral Readings and Poems
What sort of poems or funeral readings can you have? Do you like something sad and melancholic or would you prefer a humorous and uplifting theme? The answer is, you can have whatever you choose! As an experienced funeral event planner, I meet people with all sorts of...