Golden Leaves took care of all the arrangements, while we could reflect on happy memories.

Funeral Planning Checklist
Planning or arranging a funeral can be a difficult process, with a variety of decisions to be made; from the choice between a cremation or burial, the type of coffin or the music to be played and also things to organise, dates, invites, flowers, a wake and much more. In a stressful time, with financial decisions to be made things can seem overwhelming and complicated.
Golden Leaves has over 30 years experience of planning and organising funerals and we have compiled a simple checklist of things to consider,
Pre-Arrangements
Choosing a Golden Leaves funeral plan will help you with all of the pre-planning and pre-arrangements required, to ensure you get the funeral that you’d like:
- Choose a Golden Leaves Funeral plan to cover the costs and deliver your funeral service
- The location for the service
- Clergy or officiator
- Observation of religious mourning period or event
- Burial or cremation
- The type of casket or coffin
- The type of service
- Hearse and number of funeral cars
- Notification list of family, friends, groups, organisations or clubs of the funeral
- Memorial Cards and / or Acknowledgement cards
- Memorial Register
- Flower arrangements
- Photos to be displayed
- Funeral Music, hymns and solos
- What the deceased will wear
- Pallbearers
- The Scripture and who will read it
- The eulogy and who will read it
- Any other readings, prayers or poems
- Choose a cemetery, burial plot or vault, or a cremation urn
- Headstone and stone mason
- Memorial inscriptions
When you purchase a Golden Leaves funeral plan we will help you with the pre-planning and pre-arrangements to make sure you get the funeral that you’d like at a fixed price. When death occurs Golden Leaves will take on the burden of the arrangements leaving your family with less to organise and removing some of the financial worry at a time when they are least able to cope