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

Find out more about our range of Funeral Plans