Sympathy gifts
5 guides on Sympathy gifts, from choosing flowers to getting them placed.
Choosing flowers
Flowers for a Child's Grave: Gentle Choices and Keeping the Dates
A child's grave is tended differently, and for longer. What parents place, what friends can send, the dates that matter, and how to keep them when the cemetery is far away.
Cemetery know-how
Jewish Grave Customs: Why Stones Instead of Flowers, and What Is Appropriate to Send
Jewish cemeteries have their own traditions: stones on the grave, the unveiling, yahrzeit, and a general preference against flowers. What visitors and friends should know before sending anything.
How it works
Sending Flowers to a Grave for a Friend: When Their Loved One's Grave Is Far From You Both
How to send flowers to the grave of a friend's parent, spouse or child, what information you need, what to write, and why the delivery photo should go to your friend.
Occasions
Flowers on the Anniversary of a Death: What to Send and How to Mark the Day
The anniversary of a death is a hard date. Here is what families place at the grave, what to say to someone who is grieving it, and how to make the day easier to face.
How it works
A Sympathy Gift After the Funeral: What to Send When the Flowers Have Stopped
The hardest weeks of grief come after the funeral, when the support fades. Thoughtful sympathy gifts for a month, three months or a year later, including flowers placed at the grave.