Celebrating a Life: Guide to Creating

Offers the ideas, inspiration, and how-to advice needed for creating a meaningful memorial service. This guide covers: checklists and questionnaires designed to help readers think about their preferences and articulate their wishes; advice on selecting venues, music and food; and, creative ideas for sharing family stories and memorabilia.

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"Celebrating a Life" provides the ideas, inspiration, and how-to advice needed for creating a meaningful memorial service. Light-hearted but sensitive, this thoughtful guide covers it all: checklists and questionnaires designed to help readers think about their preferences and articulate their wishes; advice on selecting venues, music and food; creative ideas for sharing family stories, photographs, and memorabilia; an invaluable list of memorial service dos and don'ts; and, even guidance from Peggy Post on modern-day funeral etiquette and respectfully straying from tradition. Author Faith Moore, a prominent Boston-based event planner, offers readers a fresh perspective. Her message is clear: memorial services ought to be more about celebrating a life and less about grieving a death. Whether the ceremony is elaborate or simple, religious or secular, the combination of Moore's creativity and professional insight will undoubtedly help her readers find the perfect way to pay their last respects.