How to Personalise a Funeral

The life of your loved one was totally unique. It was made up of moments and experiences that only you could have shared with them. So when they’re gone, how are you supposed to capture these particular memories appropriately?

By placing you at the centre of the decision-making process a respectful funeral hire service will be guided by you, and your memories, rather than choosing to control the arrangement of the funeral themselves. In this blog, we’ll explain just some of the ways that you can represent your best memories during the funeral ceremony.

Choice of Venue

Mourners will sometimes pick a location for the service that reminds them of the deceased like a favourite garden or community centre, but perhaps a beach would be just as fitting if you envision this as the site for you. The venue can be unrelated completely to the burial site but it is one of the main ways you can instantly feel physically connected to a place of remembrance for the deceased.

Personalised Order of Service

When planning funeral arrangements, it’s not the case that one order of service has to be followed. No one person’s life follows a certain order and the service that honours them should reflect that. When creating the funeral program then, you may consider whether you’d like to begin with the procession of the casket for example, or conduct speeches beforehand. Either decision is entirely yours to make, with each flexible entirely in length.

Customised Themes

Following the sequence of events themselves, your service can also be tailored visually and sonically to the tastes of your loved ones. This is an immersive way to add sentimentality to the funeral’s arrangement and often lets loved ones share the deceased’s favourite music, styles and uniting family heritage. This bonding experience can later be shared with the entire service through specific song choices or inscriptions and images on the funeral program.

Funeral Transport

Callum Robertson offers three types of hearse hire: motorcycle, horse-drawn and traditional motor hearses. The hearse itself should navigate the practical and sentimental aspects of a funeral service, although that isn’t to say that a particularly extravagant motorcycle procession can’t be arranged if this would be your preferred choice of hearse for hire. It’s worth knowing too that the placement of a coffin in the motorbike’s sidecar additionally makes it more visible (if expensive), whereas it would be hidden when using the horse-drawn or motor options.

Callum Roberts: Funeral Providers That Listen

You will be heard, reassured and consulted before a single step of your funeral’s arrangement begins. You are in full creative control of the full order of process during funeral planning with Callum Roberts: from the entire venue of choice to the colour of the program.

There are countless ways in which you can customise your service if you feel you would like more options, and we are able to discuss any specific queries with you by getting in touch at either our Leslie, Kirkcaldy or Dunfermline branches today.