The day of the Funeral

As well as the choices above, there are more options available for a church service.

• You may wish that the coffin is received into church before the service starts so that when you arrive it is similar to how you would start a normal Sunday service.
• After a church service, you may not want to go to the crematorium for the committal. We can liaise with the minister and perhaps arrange for the service and committal to take place in church. This alleviates the necessity of attending the crematorium leaving you at the church to meet the people who have attended the service. Sometimes we can arrange to leave the flowers at the church too.
• You may want to attend the committal as a small private family unit and have a large thanksgiving service to follow. This can be achieved by arranging a back-to-front funeral when a private committal service takes place before the thanksgiving service. This leaves you far more flexibility to arrange a convenient time for the thanksgiving service at the church with the minister.
• There are many options and we would be pleased to advise in other circumstances.

• Our limousines will return the family to the home address, or if previously advised, another local address afterwards.

Dress varies according to the style of an individual funeral, today more variation is allowed without being considered disrespectful. Most people show comfortable respect in their dress at funerals. Our own staff wear morning suits.

• Family members and friends usually get together after a funeral.
• This may be at their house, a village or church hall, a hotel or sometimes a club or public house.
• We will be pleased to recommend venues or caterers to suit your requirements.