What is a Celebration of Life Event?

A Celebration of Life event most resembles a memorial.  Do I dare say that it's even different than that?  Okay, I'll say it.  It resembles something like a...fun funeral!  

Why are Celebration of Life events becoming a part of the mainstream?  You can actually give the Baby Boomers credit.  Baby Boomers have never been afraid to break the mould.  Being one myself, sometimes I think we feel more uncomfortable if we don't break the mould!

My business is called Greatest of Days, and the first time I had a funeral director who wanted to talk about working with them for Celebration of Life events, I was urged to change the name of my business.  Back then, being a new business owner, I went into the "they must be right mode".  That didn't last long because the more I thought about it, the more I realized that the emphasis should be on a loved one's greatest of days!  I learned a wonderful lesson that day.  Stay true to yourself because we're not very good at being someone else.

I can tell you with that as a reminder, it has been a great help in planning Celebration of Life events.  People take comfort in knowing that we'll be focusing their loved one's greatest of days as we watch a beautiful story become one that will be experienced by those who attend this celebration.  We talk about what they enjoyed most in life, what they were known for, what were their dreams, what were their accomplishments and so much more!

"Creating and Remembering Life's Greatest of Days"

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Celebrating Your Loved One's Life As They Wished

Welcome to our Celebration of Life blog and our very first post at that!  Even though we have had a blog on planning other events and weddings for several years, it felt like Celebration of Life events really deserved their own special destination in the online world.   We were told that we should change the name of our business if we were going to do celebration of life events.  You probably know that sinking feeling you get before you listen to your gut instinct.  For a moment, we thought they were probably right.  For only a moment!!  We realized that our company had the perfect name and our entire focus would be on the greatest of days in a person's life, period end of sentence!

Greatest of Days has the honor of helping families and friends who want to celebrate the life of their loved one as he or she would have desired as if they were still here to speak their wishes.  Celebration of life events go a lot further than the standard funeral in creating the opportunity for people to share their laughter, tears and stories as one of the first steps in healing from a loss.  Over time, I'll be posting several pictures of different ideas that could inspire you to help create a Celebration of Life event to possibly reflect your loved one's wishes.

As always...

Wishing you the greatest of days!