Memorial Service Ideas

Discount Cremation Urns for Sale

December 19, 2012 urngarden.com

If you are shopping for the product that NO ONE wants to buy, you’ve come to the right place to find affordable cremation urns for ashes. Whether you plan a burial in the cemetery or scatter or spread the ashes you should be able to find an affordable memorial urn here. Many of the heavier metal styles are attractive enough to display in the home.

cheap urns for ashes

We’ve marked down many of our cremation urns in an answer to families who are searching for “cheap urns”. These urns are cheap only in price compared to the funeral home or other online retailers. These are secure, quality urns that are either overstocked, discontinued, or sales samples.

Popular styles are the brass mother of pearl and the golden engraved urn. These urns are the same styles that are sold in the funeral homes but are older styles that are being phased out.

mother of pearl discount cremation urn

We have several pages of discount urns and urns on sale, including our metal cremation urns with secure threaded lids, as well as the popular biodegradable tubes designed for scattering ashes.

Any questions? Please call for personal service.

Purple Urns for Ashes

December 15, 2012 urngarden.com

We try not to be slaves to our own tastes, but purple is one of our favorite colors. Evidently the families we serve think so too. Purple can be a complete contradiction, elegant and a little crazy. Maybe that’s why so many love this complex color. It’s definitely the reason why we curated a collection of purple urns.

The purple heart is a new design and comes in red and white as well. Metal with rich enamel and studded with sparkling crystal, the hearts are free standing sculpture that also safely store the cremated ashes. Purple Passion is a gradient or ombre effect of lavender fading to a deep plum. Both of these can be engraved.

Regarding funeral service, the color is changing. From darkness to light.

In the urn world, we noticed that the ladies love shades of purple. So we offered a line of purple urns and are one of the few distributors to do so. When we expanded our line of pet urns, we wanted to offer stylish urns in blue and purple, so we manufactured an exclusive line, our True Blue and Violet Inspiration and the families have responded.

The color purple. Brought to you by the Murex Mollusk snail.

murex shell

Purple was said to be Cleopatra’s favorite color. The ancients created the unique color from the mollusk shell, and the expense was so great that only royals could afford to wear it. You can imagine the process involved, collecting the snails and then extracting the dye. Very tedious.

We’ve covered the power of purple in earlier posts. Purple has a special, almost sacred place in nature: lavender, orchid, lilac, and violet flowers are often delicate and considered precious. Because purple is derived from the mixing of a strong warm and strong cool color it has both warm and cool properties. A purple room can boost a child’s imagination or an artist’s creativity.

Warm reds and cool blues combine to make this complex hue. We’ve tried to capture the spirit of purple in our exclusive cremation urn collection that ranges from heavy cut crystal and metals to fine blown glass. Years ago, funeral urns only came in one style. Ugly. Now, there’s so many options. Modern twists on old designs. Lots of color and now, instead of a bronze vase, you can commission a sculpture that contains storage for the ashes.

Morning Glory is a family favorite, deep dark purple with hand tooled pewter accents.

Blown glass in variegated shades of lavender doubles as an art piece.

More metal styles ranging from dark eggplant to royal violet that can be personalized with laser engraving.

Visit us to see more of our purple urn collection.

National Children’s Memorial Day

December 9, 2012 urngarden.com

“It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that is happens all the time, we never see it.” — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

One of the more unspoken facts of life is the death of a child. For generations, when children passed away — no matter the age or cause — it was wrong to talk about or even grieve the young one. But the fact is children die every day from all causes, and they are mourned just as much as a wife who loses her husband or a daughter who loses her dad.

However, it’s only been in the last few decades that it has become socially acceptable to mourn the loss of a child. No longer are parents told that they can have other children or that it’s best to not talk about the deceased.

Today, those young lives are honored, celebrated and most importantly, remembered on National Children’s Memorial Day. Held the second Sunday in December, this proclamation, signed by President William J. Clinton in 1998, validates the grief and despair felt by bereaved families each day. It also allows them to gather and share their loved ones with those who truly understand their pain and anguish.

If you lost a child or know someone who has, take time today to remember that precious life. At 7 p.m. local time, light a candle. Supporters all over the world are doing the same, creating a 24-hour wave of light that encircles the world.

Burl Wood Urn: Solution for Box of Ashes in the Closet

November 28, 2012 urngarden.com

It’s not uncommon for families to buy an urn years later after the cremation has occurred. They always apologize and say they should have done it sooner.

There’s no need to be embarrassed or ashamed if you’ve been storing the ashes in the plastic box that you got from the funeral home for a while. Solutions are available and sometimes it takes time to make such an important decision. You’ll know when the time is right and when you are ready to shop for an urn.

If you have the plastic container that you picked up from the funeral home and are ready to transfer the ashes, your funeral director can help. It’s not an unusual request. There may be a fee to do the transfer.

Urns are available that will accommodate the temporary container and all you have to do is slip the box of ashes inside the container without disturbing the cremains. Often these urns are wooden and can double as a memorial chest. Engraving can be added if you want the name and dates of your loved one identified.

Here are three styles of urns that use burl wood and will accept the plastic box. Burl can be difficult to work with in it’s original form as it’s gnarled and rough (just like some humans!). But after the wood has been sanded, the ring patterns that are created are a work of art.

The Blonde Burl Wood urn is sleek highly polished vessel that will contain the temporary container. It has a hinged lid and opens from the top, allowing easy access.

Burl Wood Cremation Urn Box

This locking memorial box uses burl as a trim for the lid and has a lift out tray for storing mementos.

Another choice would be a memorial chest without the tray. This urn travels well if you need to have the ashes shipped from the funeral home. For someone who might be scattering ashes and want a small memorial chest to store papers and other valuables after the ceremony, this style might also be a good choice.

Any three of these urns would make an affordable memorial and can be purchased for less than $300.00

Autumn Season Blown Glass Urn

November 19, 2012 urngarden.com

The seasons of life are so beautifully reflected in the Autumn Blown Glass Urn. The artist that creates this line of decorative urns has an style to represent each season of the year. This urn is rich with dark chocolate, earthy coppers and gold that glow in the light. The ancient art of heating up ashes and sand to a molten level and then blowing the glass into a luminous work of art is still timeless today.

Customers that love and appreciate the art of glass sometimes worry about security of the sealing the urn. In keeping with the organic style of glass, wax can be used to seal an urn and can be purchased at an art supply store. Many of our customers in California like to use a little “quake wax” to seal the urn.