Memorial Keepsake

For some individuals, they need a memento of their loved ones who already passed away. These objects are known to help them in the grieving phase. In addition to that, it is also something that can provide solace and comfort since they commemorate the loved one who already passed away. Some have cremation urns while others have memorial jewelry. Normally, those who have the ashes of their loved ones use either cremation urns or memorial jewelry to store the ashes. But aside from ashes, memorial jewelry can also store locks of hair. Nowadays, the numbers of those who use memorial jewelry over cremation urns are significantly increasing. What makes memorial jewelry appealing is that a person can wear it like ordinary jewelry. Hence, a person can always memorialize a loved one just by wearing the jewelry. For this reason, there is now a wider array of memorial jewelry that you can choose from.

Memorial jewelry varies in terms of size, shape, metals used, and finish. But let us just go over two popular kinds of memorial jewelry. These are cremation jewelry and photo engraved symptoms. Let us go over each of these kinds one by one.

Cremation Jewelry: pendants and bracelets

For those who have cremated the remains of their loved ones, cremation jewelry is the memorial to get. In cremation jewelry, there are two kinds: cremation necklaces and cremation bracelets. These cremation necklaces and cremation bracelets are fashioned in a way that there are tiny compartments that serve as storage space for the ashes of the loved one. There are different finishes available for this kind of memorial jewelry and custom cremation keepsakes are also available. Depending on your budget, you can get cremation jewelry in 14 karat gold, sterling silver, and titanium. To make the cremation jewelry more personal, you can have the name of the loved one engraved on it.

Photo and Name Engraved Pendants

As its name suggests, photo engraved pendants are pendants that have the image of the loved one engraved on its surface. This is done through laser technology. All you have to do is provide the store that sells the photo engraved pendants with a high resolution photograph of your loved one. These photo engraved pendants are either in 14k gold or sterling silver. They can be more personalized by engraving the name of the loved one whose image also appears on the pendant.

When you have cremation jewelry or photo and name engraved pendants, you get the opportunity to memorialize your loved anywhere you go.

Engraved Urns

These days, custom urns are becoming more and more popular receptacles for storing the ashes of a loved one who passed away.  With the growing practice of cremation, the places the dead are supposed to be are no longer limited to cemeteries and mausoleums.  Their remains can stay with their loved ones, put in urns at a place of honor in their homes.

Custom urns are, by far, a very wise choice to make for a family who wants to honor their deceased loved ones.  In selecting an engraved urn or something that personalizes the urn, the bereaved ones are given the opportunity to find something that will conform to what the deceased would have liked to have.  It will also help them express the uniqueness of the person and the life that the deceased once led.  More importantly, custom urns can be seen as a final expression of a family’s love for the deceased.

Custom Urns as a Way of Remembering

In wakes, memorial services and funerals, family members and friends often exchange anecdotes and little bits of memories about the one who passed away.  They would fondly recall how he loved to play basketball, how she adored the color green, how he saw life as an adventure, that she was a brilliant artist, and so on.

Basketball Urn

Would it not be nice if you could gather all those fond memories together and summarize them visually with custom urns?  If she was a brilliant artist who loved the color green, you can let her ashes rest in a delicately crafted ceramic urn with varying shades of green.  If he was an adventurous man who loved to play basketball, you can allow that to show by selecting an urn that depicts him soaring upward with a basketball in hand, as if to do a lay-up at the hoop.

Custom Urns as a Way of Expressing

If custom urns are a great way of remembering the person who died, they are also a great way of capturing the essence of the person that he or she was while the deceased was still alive.  After all, when someone that we love has died, it is always best to remember how they were when they were alive.  Most of all, with beautifully made custom urns and memorial jewelry, you would always be proud to display them in a place of honor in your home, should you choose to keep them at home.  They will become part of your house’s décor, and you will always be able to remember your deceased loved one with fond happiness.