Category Archives for "Coping With Loss"
January 11, 2021
- in Coping With Loss , Funerals
A Ceremony to Remember
I had the honour of conducting a service for a gentleman who had been a very big part of many people’s lives. He was the owner and head chef of a Thai restaurant. His family wanted a ceremony that would include his Buddhist belief system and be accessible to the rest of his family, including […]
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September 25, 2020
- in Coping With Loss , Funerals
Say it with Hops
Say it with Flowers is perhaps an overused phrase nowadays; in the funeral world flowers really do speak words. I read (in Creative Review) that the Say it with Flowers slogan was created in the US back in 1917 by the Florists’ Telegraph Delivery Association (FTD). “As the FTD went global (the UK equivalent, Interflora, […]
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