Customize your Own Funeral
Funeral directors are now “heading in the direction of event planners. Forward-thinking funeral directors are bringing in hospitality like food.” So says Ron Hast, publisher of the trade journals Mortuary Management and Funeral Monitor in a story about this new trend in today’s New York Times.
July 21st, 2006 at 12:30 pm
wow, if your loved ones have to pay for an event planner to do your funeral reception, you’re a NOBODY.
Having spent most of my adult life in the South, I can tell you that Southern church ladies pull out all stops on the post-funeral reception–even if they barely know you or the deceased.
In the South, every one goes out in a wake of pimento cheese and crackers, sausage balls, cucumber sandwiches, fruit platters, deviled eggs, ham biscuits, and cream cheese and mint jelly.
July 21st, 2006 at 7:23 pm
Wow, Southerners really know how to throw a party! In my own experience, being Jewish, I can tell you that the meals that follow the funeral services can be pretty plentiful and elaborate.