Not once did we have a concern. The car was shining, your team dressed beautifully, cold water provided for us, directions for our guests, directions for us. Everyone commented on how amazing the day was and how incredibly your team were.
Seamless is the only word I can use. Your personal care and guidance then allowed us a more intimate farewell the following day we are so grateful for for this recommendation and possibly would have missed this special day if you had suggested it was the best idea.
Again, you and your team made us feel like you had nowhere else to be, and no one else to help. Just us. The setting was beautiful, the celebrant that you arrange and recommend is a delightful, your team make this day even more special than the last. This is something we never want to go through again but there will be so many others, that like us, have no idea where to start to look for the right funeral director for their own special day.
We learnt a lot quickly and it is again a business many do not ever consider needing but without question one of the most important businesses to select the right person and the right team. I welcome any of your future potential clients to contact me if they wish to discuss our experience with the amazing Lady Anne team.
We thank you for giving our beautiful baby the most incredible farewell that was exactly how we imagined it, you just made it happen. July 26, , by Karen Laing. Your step by step guide on what to do following the passing of a loved one, from directly after their death to following the funeral. June 22, , by Karen Laing.
June 1, , by Karen Laing. A funeral service for your departed loved one istrue. Call Us For Immediate Assistance: 74 00 February 25, , by Karen Laing. Funeral Planning. Need to talk to someone? We're available now - Call us 74 00 About us. And whoever ends up delivering the eulogy needs more love and support than you can possibly imagine. It's a massive and terrifying job — summing up an entire existence in five minutes while standing next to a dead person in a box.
Comfort food and beer and wine and memories. Strangely, it can be a very good night — like a team bonding before facing a big match the next day. There's a traditional tyranny-by-flowers in operation at many funerals. If you don't express a strong opinion and instead let the chapel sort it, you may find yourself staring at one huge urn why always an urn?
But this bit can be personal too …. At my father's funeral, we decided not to bother with flowers as he always hated them along with chewing gum, perfume, music, Dr Scholl's sandals, garlic and Nicholas Parsons. Odd bloke. Just before it was too late, we remembered that the one bloom he had time for was the forget-me-not — and, fabulously, he died bang in the middle of the pitifully short forget-me-not season.
So we ordered a massive bunch of these tiny blue blossoms, which covered the whole of the coffin — and on top of this huge bed of flowers we put the teddy bear with which he always travelled. For my sister-in-law's funeral, we filled the church with jam jars, teacups, teapots and Kilner jars bursting with multicoloured wild flowers. As soon as anyone entered the church, they knew that this girl was an amazingly free spirit and remembered that her hair was mostly dyed all the colours of the rainbow.
For my mother-in-law, who loved her garden more than she loved her children and she loved her children more than any mother I have ever met , we spent all the flower money on little pots that had been planted with white daffodils she died during a February. We used the potted plants to line both the path into the church and the length of the aisle — then we brought them back to the house after the service to decorate the house, and at the end of the wake, we gave one to each guest to take home, plant in their own garden and remember her by.
Turns out you can actually say quite a lot with flowers. I have a feeling that, for my generation, the day of the black-car procession with uniformed drivers may be over. If you've never been able to imagine yourself in a funeral car with a serious besuited driver trailing behind the hearse, then simply don't do it. When the funeral director says: "How many cars would you like to take the funeral party to the chapel", take a deep breath and say: "None. Arriving at the chapel for one of the toughest days of your life in a mode of transport you understand is far better than stepping into a huge black chauffeured car and feeling like someone you've never met.
I'm not sure if that's the official name — but you know what I mean. Something on top of the coffin is nice. Broadcaster Ned Sherrin had his ancient leather gladstone bag. My activist friend Solly Kaye had the communist flag. I asked people on Twitter if they had seen any good toppers … A friend of Dom Joly's had a bowl of his favourite food — hummus. One lady had her best hat on the coffin and the rest of her millinery collection hung at the ends of each pew lining the aisle of the church.
Note if your family chooses to have a public viewing or gathering with the body present prior to the burial or cremation, a funeral home or crematory may require embalming. The timeline of final arrangements greatly depends on where the death occurred.
If your loved one passed away while out of state, a funeral home can serve as your advisor, coordinating legal details with other professionals. Depending on the time it takes to coordinate details, this may delay services while the body is transported to the designated funeral home. In cases where the cause of death is unknown, an autopsy may need to be performed. An autopsy is a surgical procedure that consists of a thorough examination of a body. While autopsies only take two to four hours to perform, it can take up to six to eight weeks for families to receive results.
In the event an autopsy is carried out, the selected funeral home does not have to wait for the results to move forward with burial or cremation. Knowing there are many decisions to make after the death of a loved one, you too can lift the burden from your family by preplanning. Our guide explains what preplanning is, and offers insights on the financial benefits of arranging ahead of time. Topics: Leave Well.
View Obituaries. But, where no plans have been agreed, if there are scheduling difficulties or if a coroner is required to report, it can take a month and sometimes longer, to organise a funeral. The average time required to organise a personal funeral for a family member, partner or friend, in the United Kingdom was reported in parliament as around 15 days in This near two-week period is seen to give the family and friends of the deceased time to make plans while mourning, but not forcing them to live in the shadow of the funeral for too long.
The two-week average also allows sufficient time to complete the formal procedures required, including registering the death, contacting a funeral director and arranging the funeral service for an appropriate, and available, time slot. Although generally there's no time restriction for families and friends to hold funerals for the deceased in the United Kingdom, some religions do have specific time frames within which the funeral should be held.
For example, if the deceased is a practising member of the Jewish or Muslim faiths, the funeral service should be held as soon after the death as possible.
Given the scale of these occasions this seems very quick, but the plans have generally been made far in advance of the death. This generally happens when someone has died unexpectedly or due to an illness for which they were not treated by their own doctor.
An inquest can take several months; the cause of death must be determined before the appropriate death and medical certificates can be issue and the body released. Once you have contacted your funeral director, they can arrange to move the body of the deceased to the funeral home in advance of the funeral, so that it can be kept safely and correctly.
Finding a funeral director that is right for you, and nearby, can be one of the trickiest parts of organising a funeral.
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