Planning A Beautiful Service

• Researching Your Family Genealogy? Don't Overlook Family Graveyards And Community Cemetaries

  31 July 2016

  Gravestones and cemetery records can offer you a wealth of information about your family tree that may not be available anywhere else. If you're starting the genealogical research into your family, learn why making a few trips to small family graveyards and rural community cemeteries could be well worth your time. You can get rid of basic gaps in your records. There are a lot of details about families that never made it into official records—births and deaths often occurred at home, with the only "

• How You Can Turn Your Loved One's Ashes Into A Masterpiece

  31 July 2016

  Honoring and remembering the life of a deceased loved one can be one of the best ways to heal your grief. For many people, however, it is hard to honor and remember their loved while standing over a grave in a cemetery because all there is to remind them is a grave marker and an engraved name. A cemetery brings to mind coldness, fear and the memory of your loved one's casket being lowered into the ground.

• Dust To Dust: 4 Special Ways To Care For Your Loved One's Ashes

  19 July 2016

  If your loved one has recently passed away and they wanted to be cremated, you might be left wondering how to honor their memory. It's nice to know that there are many beautiful and unique ways to preserve ashes in a dignified and loving manner. If you don't want to scatter your loved one's ashes, you don't have to. Here are several special ways you can honor your loved one and hold on to their ashes.

• Benefits Of Pre-Planning Your Funeral

  5 July 2016

  Pre-planning your own funeral is something that's being talked about more and more often. There are a few major benefits to taking your funeral arrangements into your own hands.  Relieve Your Grieving Family of the Burden Pre-planning your funeral may bring up some uncomfortable emotions, but it helps to alleviate the discomfort of your family in the long run. Planning a funeral while mourning a death can be heart-wrenching; by planning your funeral ahead of time, you can save your family this burden and allow them to focus on grieving.

• Helpful Tips for Saving Money When You Are Arranging a Funeral

  5 July 2016

  If you are getting ready to start arranging a funeral, you might find that you are starting to wonder what everything is going to cost and if it will be affordable with the budget that you have. To help save money, you need to take a look at the following tips. Limit the Number of Viewing Days While it would be nice to have as many days of viewing as possible, you will want to remember that you have to pay for each day you reserve one of the rooms in the funeral home for the viewing.