Show Your Support With Artificial Sympathy Flowers
Show Your Support With Artificial Sympathy Flowers
By Rosie P Richards
Trends in funeral and memorial services are continually changing - they have become shorter, and viewing of the casket almost reduced to zero. This is not for us to judge and what we need is to make a gift of flowers to show that the family has our support in its hour of grief. Artificial sympathy flowers would easily suit this purpose and a careful and thoughtful selection of the arrangement could go a long way in assuring the bereaved family of your genuine concern and support.
Sympathy arrangements can be in the shape of wreaths, which is a circular arrangement that symbolises eternal life. Such arrangements look best on stands. Sprays can be viewed from one side and need to be placed on an easel. You can opt for a floral arrangement in baskets or vases. A casket spray can be placed on the casket, but generally this is ordered by the family and you would be amiss if you offered these. You may opt for a small inside piece to be placed within the casket, but this would have to have the approval of the family concerned. The sympathy flowers you choose should be just an indication of the support you want to give to the bereaved family. While choosing the type of flowers that you want in your sympathy flower arrangement make sure that they are appropriate to the occasion. Red roses would of course be totally uncalled for. Flowers that are white, yellow or pink are more suited to being used as sympathy flowers.
You can opt to place your sympathy flowers on the grave of the deceased, but this would require you to find out the rules that are prevalent in that particular cemetery. A number of cemeteries do not allow artificial flowers as clearing them remains a big task, because artificial flowers, unlike natural flowers do not fade and die. It is best to take the advice of the florist near the cemetery if you cannot get the information otherwise.
Artificial sympathy flowers are meant to show respect to the deceased and also indicate to the bereaved family that they have your support in this hour of grief. One of the biggest advantages with artificial sympathy flowers is that they contain no pollen and are therefore hypoallergenic. They will last quite a long time, and will be a sort of semi permanent reminder to the family of your concern for them. Artificial sympathy flowers can also be obtained to suit almost any budget, and can be just simple sprays to more elaborate arrangements depending on the budget you have in mind.
Because such artificial sympathy flowers are not delicate, they can easily be transported home after the funeral in case the family desires to extend the sense of comfort that these flowers have brought them. In case it is decided that these flowers are too much of a reminder of the sad event, there are charitable organisations that will come and take away these artificial sympathy flowers and recycle them for some other purpose.
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