Choosing Funeral Flower Arrangements

In most Western culture, funeral flowers are sent by friends and relatives to the bereaved family as a sign of sympathy and emotional support.  The bereaved family also usually orders from the local florist some funeral flower arrangements for the deceased while the remains are still in the funeral home’s viewing room, if viewing is opted.  Funeral flowers are usually symbols for life’s impermanence, life’s seasons and hope for an afterlife.   In cases of funerals, funeral flowers are therefore employed more for its symbolic purposes rather than for its colors’ festive effect.

            Here are some common and popular funeral flower arrangements:

1. Casket Sprays – these funeral flower sprays are usually mounted on top of the casket’s lower half.
2. Standing Sprays – this funeral flower arrangement  is ideal for positioning on both ends of the casket.  Companies, groups and organization usually order this funeral flower arrangement for a deceased member as the company name or the sympathizers’ name may be written on a sash right across the standing spray funeral flower arrangement.
3. Cross Sprays – funeral flower arrangement formed into a cross and mounted on a stand.  This is ideal for Christian funerals as crosses symbolizes the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
4. Heart Sprays – funeral flower arrangement formed into a heart and mounted on a stand.
5. Heart Flowers – funeral flower arrangement formed into a heart to be mounted on top of the lower half of the casket.
6. Casket Arrangements – funeral flower arrangement around the casket.
7. Sympathy Wreath – funeral wreaths mounted on stands to be placed on either side of the casket.  Wreaths are also common in funerals as its rounded form is symbolical for the never-ending cycle of life and death.
8. Heart wreaths – funeral heart wreaths are funeral flower arrangements mounted on a stand to symbolize eternal love.
9. Funeral Flower Basket Arrangements – these funeral flower arrangements in a basket are ideal for side tables in a funeral viewing room or placed on pedestals around the viewing room.
10. In-Casket Arrangements – funeral flower arrangements that are placed on the inside lid of the casket.   These in-casket arrangements are usually formed into hearts, rosaries, or little floral sprays pinned on the inner lining of the casket’s lid.

Here are some tips on funeral flowers on different religions/denominations.

1. Buddhists – Funeral flowers in standing sprays and garlands are usually given and appreciated among family friends in Buddhist communities in times of death.
2. Catholics and Christians – Flowers are seen as expressions of sympathy, condolence and sorrow.  Funeral flowers are commonly given and appreciated among Catholic and Christian friends in times of death.
3. Eastern Orthodox Christians – White flowers are preferred.  Funeral flowers are often sent to the funeral home a few days after the death of the person.
4. Hindus – Bright red and orange garlands and vase arrangements are often preferred to funeral flower sprays.
5. Islam – Funeral flowers may or may not be given.
6. Jews – Funeral flowers are usually sent to the bereaved family at home, after the funeral.

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