Sympathy gifts
6 guides on Sympathy gifts, from choosing flowers to getting them placed.
What to Put on a Grave
What to Write on the Card With Flowers for a Grave
Short, specific and in your own voice. Messages for a parent, a spouse, a child, a friend's loved one, a birthday, an anniversary and the holidays, with examples you can use as they are or change.
What to Put on a Grave
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.
What to Put on a Grave
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.
Remembering From Afar
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.
Holidays & Occasions
Flowers on the Anniversary of a Death: What to Send and How to Mark the Day
The best flowers for a death anniversary, from the first year on: which kinds and colors families choose, what to place at the grave, and how to mark the day.
Remembering From Afar
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.