Who said that every Funeral had to have the whole room crying, sobbing, screaming? In fact who actually wrote funerals at the beginning and said that everyone attended had to be miserable. The fact is, religion started it all. Its amazing how funerals have evolved over the centries, they all started with some mourning process and thats fine, no one want to loose the person they love, but the rest is basically man made, all by a church or a religion as it was a way of connecting society with church.

We are in the new century and our world has changed. We all want to be remembered, its part of being bought into this world, and its part of leaving it. Our loved ones want to say goodbye and we want our send off in a way that we would like.

There is nothing wrong with a huge funeral, a religous or non religious but surelly we can consider that not everyone needs the same package, the same format and the same way its been done for years.

Over the past ten years i am consitantly being told by friends that they dont want a boring funeral, they dont want the men in suits or the shady lady with the hat that obivously has been shared between the staff. They want a way to say goodbye in their own way. They want there music, there pictures, there dress code and most of all not to miss out on the party.

So when i considerded all of these things, I personally went, sure it can be done, hey why can’t it?

Funerals are a special day for the living, but also a way of the dead to share their world. The time they had here on earth, and their way of saying hey bastards Ive left the building.

So when I sit with the family, these are the questions that I always ask.

Who were they?

What did they like?

What would be their story?

How do they want to be remembered?

and from those questions we then have a conversation about where to start, what to create and how this is not going to be just any ordinary package wedding.