Flowers or donations

Flowers are usually still present at funerals, with a floral spray, arrangement or tribute from the whole family being popular.

Floral tributes often take the form of words such as ‘Mum’ or ‘Dad’. More unusual requests have included flowers sculpted to represent:

Families increasingly want to take the flowers home with them now – they want arrangements that they can display in a vase or can be donated to their local hospital or their loved one’s place of work.

A pint of Guinness
A cricket bat
A car
A pigeon

However, mourners are increasingly being asked, or are choosing to make donations to a specific charity in place of floral tributes. Over half of the funerals we carry out now involve some sort of charitable giving.

The Co-operative Funeralcare offers a wide range of floral tributes.

For further information on changing funeral trends you can view or download The Ways We Say Goodbye booklet online.

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