Honoring Family Memories

Honoring Family Memories

Honoring family memories is a lost art sometimes. It is important to save your most important mementos and memorabilia as you are honoring family memories. Sometimes we do not know what we have until it is gone. It’s an unfortunate fact of life that we all have to pass away at some point. Whether it is old or a tragedy, death comes for us all. Simply because someone is gone, doesn’t mean they need to be forgotten. Adult urns can act as a beautiful memorial to a part of your household that you’ve lost, no matter what the circumstances. What are some options that you have when choosing an urn that’s appropriate for your loved one?

Color

There is a wide variety of colors that may be used on adult urns, whеthеr thеу аrе mаdе frоm сеrаmіс glаss оr mеtаl. You may choose from vibrant colors that highlight how bold and bright your loved ones was during life, or you may select a more muted palette for a more subdued character. From silver metallic to bright red ceramic, the options are plentiful.

Style

The styling you select for your loved one’s urn depends on what you believe they would have loved best. Adult urns come in a wide variety of shapes and styles, from abstract forms to concrete items that reflect their passions in life. Take the time to think about what your loved one would have wanted a memorial and make that decision.

Маtеrіаl

Тhеrе аrе sеvеrаl mаtеrіаls tо сhооsе frоm whеn lооkіng аt аdult urns. Glass, ceramic, metal and wood are the four main choices, but resin and stone are available also. Each different material type creates a very different looking urn in the other materials, and you need to select a material that reflects your loved one’s character. For an urn that’s a bold and beautiful memorial, pick a glass urn. If you would like something subtle and natural, pick a wooden urn. If you desire, you can even have a custom urn created using a combination of materials.

Size

While adult urns are the popular choice for most families, there are several other alternatives. Keepsake urns and companion urns are smaller and bigger options, respectively. Keepsake urns only hold a small amount of your loved one’s cremains, allowing everyone in the household to have their own small, unique memorial to their family member. Companion urns are designed to hold the remains of two individuals. Whether for spouses or child and mother, these urns are a unique way to reunite two individuals after death.

Biodegradable

If your loved one chosen for cremation, odds are, they’re already eco-friendly, to begin with, such adult urns that are biodegradable are a great way to bury your loved one’s cremains and be sure that you’ll do no damage to the world around you.

Make a Family Time Capsule

Honoring family memories is something that has been done different ways for years. A very heartfelt, enduring, and unique way of honoring family memories is to make a family time capsule. You can use the any occasion DIY time capsule seen here to put your own scrapbook type background and photos on the outside and decorate it however you want. It is a very personalized gift. Honoring family memories is easy with a family time capsule, because you can save the most important mementos and memorabilia in the Time Capsule that you cannot fit in a scrapbook. Plus there is the added excitement that you will not see what is in the Time Capsule until a date of your choosing decades in the future. So gather friends and family at your next family reunions and have them fill out the message to the Future stationery letters included with the any occasion DIY time capsule and make your own family time capsule. Then she is a do not open until date to put on the lid. It will be one of the best parties you will ever have as a family when the family time capsule is finally opened and you all reminisce about what life was like when you filled the family time capsule. It is a must-have gift.

What are some of your ways of honoring family memories? Comment below.

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