Virtual Memorial Service

Honour the life of your loved one in a meaningful way with a carefully created Virtual Memorial Service.

Designed to support an unattended funeral, this personalised service allows you to reflect and watch your loved one’s final journey at your own pace.

Just like an attended service, the Virtual Memorial Service can give closure to those left behind, offering another way to say goodbye.

To book a Virtual Memorial Service, please speak to your funeral arranger.

What’s included

Take a moment to reflect as your loved one takes their final journey through the beautiful grounds of the crematorium and into the chapel, where you will see the final committal take place.

The service can be made all the more meaningful by incorporating your chosen music, personal photos and a poetry reading from our library. We can also add a Music Tribute as an optional way to pay homage to their life story. This personalised virtual tribute ensures a meaningful and lasting commemoration of your loved one's life.

Cherish the moment with music

Choose any song and our expert music team will source the best version to be included in your service.

View Music Library

Reflect with their image

Choose a photo to be featured as a focal point for reflection throughout the Service.

Witness the committal

Watch the ceremony as your loved one is committed into the crematorium and witness the curtain closure.

Honour them with a poem

Take a look through our optional poetry choices for a poignant moment of reflection during the committal.

Follow their final journey

See their final journey through the serene grounds and surrounding countryside of the crematorium.

Commemorate their memory with a Music Tribute

Personalise the service further by including up to 25 photos, timed perfectly to a song of your choice.

Optional

Please note that the Music Tribute is not included in the standard Virtual Memorial Service offering, please request this to be added on to your service.

How you receive the
Virtual Memorial Service 

It’s only natural that you may want to treasure the memory of the service, or even look back on it. We make it easy with our elegantly presented Keepsakes.

Your Keepsake can include an edited video of the Virtual Memorial service either on DVD, USB, Video Book, or within a Memory Box with printed personal photos to accompany the footage. Speak to your Funeral Arranger or visit our Keepsakes page to see the options.

Our in-house team carefully edit your chosen features to create your tasteful, personal Virtual Memorial Service. You will then receive this through an easy-access link, where you can watch it and download a copy.

Within three working days of the unattended service, the Virtual Memorial Service will be ready to download through a secure, unique link sent to your email of choice. You can then download and watch the Virtual Memorial Service in your own time and setting.

Cherish the moment with a Keepsake 

Witness their final journey

Commemorate your loved one with a meaningful and lasting Virtual Memorial Service.

Talk to your Funeral Arranger to book a Virtual Memorial Service.

Poetry options

Choose a poem that reflects your loved one from our ten pre-recorded options. Your chosen poem will be recited during the Virtual Memorial Service.

  • If by Rudyard Kipling

  • When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be by John Keats

  • Crossing The Bar by Lord Alfred Tennyson

  • A Meeting by Edith Wharton

  • Death Is Nothing At All by Henry Scott-Holland

  • Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas

  • Alive by Winifred Mary Letts

    Alive by Winifred Mary Letts

  • Desridata by Max Ehrmann

  • I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud by William Wordsworth

  • The Reverend Eli Jenkins Prayer by Dylan Thomas

 Frequently Asked Questions

  • A Virtual Memorial Service is a personalised video that includes footage from the arrival, committal and curtain closed of a loved one, tastefully edited to include personal photos, music and poetry.

    This downloadable media gives families and friends the opportunity to see their loved one’s last journey and watch again in their own time.

  • The Music Tribute add-on gives you the ability to include up to 25 photos of your loved one carefully timed to a music track of your choice, alongside a separate music track at the beginning of the Virtual Memorial. See the top of this webpage to view an example.

  • Virtual Memorial Services are available as an addition to direct cremation services. Please speak with your funeral home to confirm which option you want to book, and they will guide you through the process.

  • As our teams carefully edit the footage and chosen media, this usually takes around three working days after the direct cremation to complete. It’s then sent through a secure link to an email address of your choice for you to download.

  • The Committal is the rite of passage that honours the physical parting of a deceased person by either burial or cremation. In this case it means that you are ‘committing’ the body to be cremated.

    Please bear in mind that attendants may not be in full uniform like at an attended funeral, and a bier may be used if less than six attendants are available to carry your loved one into the chapel.

  • A catafalque is a raised platform that is used to support the coffin during a memorial service.

  • Virtual Memorial Services are a new offering, so at the moment we have ten classic poetry recitals to choose from.

    The poems have been selected carefully to give families a balanced collection of poignant and thoughtful prose to choose for commemoration of their loved one.

    Please choose from the featured poems above for your Virtual Memorial Service, and speak to your funeral arranger if you are looking for further levels of personalisation.