hestiaIdeas for a farewell
Being outdoors
A graveside only, with nothing indoors at all. A gathering in a garden, a park, a field they walked in. Weather is the usual worry, and a borrowed gazebo solves most of it.
How it can look
- Graveside only, fifteen minutes, nothing else.
- A natural burial ground, where the grave is marked by what grows there.
- Indoors for the service, outdoors for the gathering afterwards.
Words you can use with a funeral director
We would like to be outdoors for this. What would that involve on your side, and is there anywhere you have worked with before?
This sits with
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