Funeral Ceremonies


Posted on August 1, 2013 by Judy | Filed under: Funerals


It’s not easy, marketing your services as a Funeral Celebrant.     Ensuring the bereaved know about my services means that I need to get to know the Funeral Directors (FD)  in my region, and more importantly that they get to know me, so that when they need a Celebrant, it is my name that comes to mind.  It’s a sensitive process, and Funeral Directors are – quite rightly – wary of using celebrants whose work they don’t know.  Quite right too, I say

I’ve just had some postcards printed to send out to FDs in my area of the Midlands   (You may be receiving your copies through the post soon!).

I chose a very poignant verse for these cards, that I thought I would share with you.  Feel free to pass it along….

“Say not in grief that she is no more, but say in thankfulness that she was.  A death is not the extinguishing of a light, but the putting out of the lamp because the dawn has come”.

Rabindranath TagoreDawn has come