Promo Code for You:  FAF10

As part of our introduction of our newest line of cremation urns, keepsakes and pet urns, we want to give you our Friends and Family 10% discount with Coupon Code FAF10.

These cremation urns and funeral memorials have a very special effect: when placed in a sunny location, these urns will reflect a fantastic starscape of lights throughout the room ... this becomes a daily and uplifting effect that occurs at the same time each day when the sunlight pours through the window and reflects off the mosaic surface of the urn.

Starlight Flat Top Urn from the Reflections Series

The Reflections Collection is made up of funeral urns for adults in two sizes (Large for a person up to 200 lbs, and Medium for up to 175 lbs), spherical child or infant urns in three sizes, and spheres in three different sizes for pet urns for cats and dogs.

The large and medium adult urns are hand crafted in art glass, with a silver plated ring at the rim, and a choice of sphere top or flat top, depending on height availability in the urn's intended location. Included with the urn is a plastic liner bag, instructions for transfer of ashes, and permanent sealant.

Rainbow Sphere Memorial Urn

The spheres, also hand made in art glass, sit upon a solid brass stand and have a solid brass Closure, which provides an area for engraving name, dates, and a few thoughtful words.  Included with each sphere is a plastic liner bag, instructions for ashes transfer, a velvet pouch and a small ziplock bag for containing mementos separately from the ashes.

Use our Friends and Family promo code FAF10 for 10% off your entire purchase of any items in our web store, and free shipping - simply enter the code during checkout. The benefits of our new line of hand made cremation urns are not only their uplifting and inspiring reflective nature, but also their affordability. If you've been waiting to find the perfect cremation urn or memorial, now is the time to visit our web store at http://www.cremationurnsbylegacy.ca to see our full collection of funeral urns, cremation jewellery, keepsakes and pet urns. 

Affordable Cremation Urns

How Can I Find Affordable Cremation Urns? 

It's a good question.  We all want to find the perfect urn for our loved one, but often the urn that best fits their style and spirit is a little (or a lot) out of our price range.  So how do we find discount cremation urns?  Here is our page with deeply discounted urns and keepsakes:  http://www.cremation-urns-legacy.com/Discount-Cremation-Urns-s/1899.htm

Blue Heaven Cremation Urn

At Cremation Urns by Legacy, we consider it our mission to offer inspiring, uplifting urns and keepsakes to everyone, in every price bracket.  All of our funeral urns and keepsake memorials, however, are hand made, making it difficult to compete with machine manufactured pieces.  That said, it's also the very hand crafted nature of our products that brings the quality of inspiration to them -- many of the techniques required to make our urns are simply not achievable in manufactured pieces.

Our Discount Cremation Urns page features various pieces with deep discounts.  Due to the hand crafting process, some urns have a very tiny flaw, which is shown in a close-up photo (we wouldn't sell an urn with a flaw that was any more than tiny).  

Amber Mini Urn Keepsake

Other urns are more petite than the standard urn size.  The standard size being 200 cubic inches, which is the volume needed for an adult up to 200 pounds.  Some of our discounted funeral urns are smaller than the standard, and one of these small urns would be perfect for someone who weighed up to 145 pounds.  We also have a very slender purple urn that will contain the ashes from one whose healthy weight was only up to 80 pounds.  And one of our keepsake mini urns is available in limited quantity, the Amber Mini Urn Keepsake, which holds only a very small amount of ashes, 1 cubic inch.

We have another helpful function within our web store that allows you to search for urns or keepsakes by the weight of the person:  http://www.cremation-urns-legacy.com/What-Size-Cremation-Urn-Is-Needed-s/1877.htm , and our discounted urns will also appear within your weight search. 

We hope to help you find the perfect urn or keepsake that reflects your loved one's beautiful spirit, from among our cremation urns on sale.  But in case our Discount Cremation Urns page doesn't have what you are looking for, please use this Coupon Code, LOVE20.  Also known as a promo code or discount code, enter LOVE20 during checkout, for 20% off your entire order, with Free Shipping (to anywhere in continental North America). 

All best wishes for finding the most perfect, yet affordable cremation urn.

What Size Are Cremation Urns?

What Size Are Cremation Urns?  If you would prefer to watch our YouTube video on this subject, with visuals that help explain the various size factors for funeral urns and keepsakes, please click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqTDuDHVQmw&t=25s . 

Everyone at some time will face the death of a loved one.  

Over 50% of funerals are cremations,

so here are some critical points when buying an urn or keepsake.

1. The Weight to Volume Formula  

The Formula is: 1 lb. of healthy weight becomes 1 cubic inch of ashes.  

If your loved one weighed 180 lbs., buy an urn that’s at least 180 cubic inches. 

Most urns are 200 cubic inches. 

There are smaller sizes, as well as larger sizes.

2. Intended Location 

If you want to keep the urn at home, consider its dimensions. 

For a china cabinet or shelving unit, measure the shelf height. 

Or, if you prefer a columbarium niche, ask about height options.

3. Disposition of the Ashes 

Some families conduct a Scattering Ceremony. 

If scattering, you may choose to keep some ashes in a keepsake. 

Or, you can put mementos instead of ashes into a keepsake,

like a small photo, a lock of hair, a poem or letter.

4. Dividing the Ashes 

Another choice is dividing the ashes among family members. 

If so, use “The Formula” to add up the sizes of keepsakes to hold all the ashes:

1 lb. of healthy body weight = 1 cubic inch of ashes.  

A keepsake for each person’s home will inspire loving memories.

5. Your Loved One’s Personality 

To capture the spirit of your loved one, consider their style. 

What made them happy?  What was their favorite color? 

It may take some searching, but you’ll know the right urn when you see it.

There can be great comfort in having properly memorialized your loved one.

See all of our inspiring funeral urns & keepsakes at our Canadian web store, www.cremationurnsbylegacy.ca or in our USA web store, www.cremation-urns-legacy.com.  And please use our “Friends & Family” promo code FAF10 in either web site, for 10% off, with Free Shipping!

Unique Cremation Urn for a Meaningful Memorial

A Unique Cremation Urn for a Meaningful Memorial

I began designing cremation urns, keepsakes, jewelry and pet urns ten years ago, spurred by the loss of a loved one.  My husband had lost his mother, and the search for a funeral urn that reflected her personality was less than fulfilling.

Meadow Cremation Urn

His family had no choice but to settle for one of the available offerings, which was not as meaningful as it could have been.  Since then, I’ve dedicated myself to making urn and keepsake offerings that are able to stand as expressions of a loved one’s style and persona, and inspire loving memories.  When we bid a final farewell, it’s the beautiful aspects of a life we are celebrating – we recognize all the love, commitment, effort and integrity that person has contributed to our lives, our family, friends and community. 

As a lifelong collector of Tiffany-style art glass, I’ve been in love with the shimmering aura of iridescent glazes for decades.  The aura this kind of hand blown glass brings to an object, such as a vase or a light shade, inspired me to begin working with two world class glass blowers to create funeral offerings.  Producing uplifting pieces became my life’s work, and I’m so happy I chose this path.  Some of the testimonials I’ve received attest to the uplifting effect that has rippled through people’s lives.

Blue Heaven Cremation Urn

A unique urn or keepsake that aptly represents the spirit of our loved one makes a perfect focus at the front of the funeral gathering, and continues to engender warm and loving remembrance long after the life celebration is over.  

I know of one family that decided to conduct a scattering ceremony with their mother's ashes, after the funeral.  This ceremony became an intimate and healing family ritual, with each immediate family member saying a few words prior to the scattering.  Now they are using the spherical top of the urn to contain a few mementos, and have engraved the brass closure with her name, dates, and a brief epitaph, to make a small and unique permanent memorial.  The most wonderful use of the vessel part of her urn though, I think, is as a vase to hold flowers, and it's present during every important family gathering. 

Blue Heaven Keepsake Memorial

 

Whether the final location of the cremation memorial urn is in-home, in a columbarium niche, or elsewhere, the essence of our loved one continues to shine on, reminding us of their unique and beautiful enduring spirit.

All best wishes,
Barbara Bergen, Designer

Please see our complete collection of urns and keepsakes in one of our web stores listed below.  As a special offering to those who wish to find a unique memorial urn, please use this coupon code during checkout, MEMORIAL10, for a 10% discount, and free shipping still applies!
 
Cremation Urns by Legacy's Canadian store
Cremation Urns by Legacy's US store

New Line of Cremation Urns, Keepsakes and Pet Urns

Sunlight reflects constellation of lights throughout the room.

Use Launch Promo Code GP10

We are very excited to introduce our newest line of cremation urns, keepsakes and pet urns, called the Reflections Collection. In fact, we're so excited, we want to give you a 10% discount with Promo Code GP10.

These funeral urns and memorials are so named with good reason: when placed near a sunny window, the many facets of these handmade pieces reflect a virtual constellation of lights throughout the room ... this becomes a daily and uplifting effect that occurs at the same time each day.

The Reflections Collection is comprised of funeral urns for adults in two sizes (Large for a person up to 200 lbs, and Medium for up to 175 lbs), sphere urns for a child or infant in three sizes, and spheres sized as pet urns.

The full sized urns are hand crafted in art glass, with a silver plated ring at the rim, and a choice of sphere top or flat top, depending on height availability in the urn's intended location. Included with the urn is a plastic liner bag, instructions for transfer of ashes, and permanent sealing silicone.

The spheres, also hand made in art glass, sit atop a solid brass stand and feature a solid brass Closure, which is finely threaded to the urn, and provides enough area for engraving with name, dates, and a few meaningful words of remembrance.  Included within each sphere is a plastic liner bag, instructions for ashes transfer, a velvet pouch and a small ziplock bag for containing mementos separately from the ashes.

Use our launch promo code GP10 for 10% off all items in our web store - simply enter the code during checkout. The true beauty of our new line of urns is not only their uplifting and inspiring reflective nature, but also their affordability.  And free shipping is included in every purchase. Visit our web store at http://www.cremationurnsbylegacy.ca to see the full array of funeral urns, cremation jewellery, keepsake memorials and pet urns we offer.  

Funeral Planning

Make a Funeral Plan for Your Loved Ones

(...and take 10% off with our Friends and Family promo code: FAF10)

Lately, people are considering doing something about their own funeral plans.  If you’ve chosen cremation, your loved ones most likely know that this is your choice – but unfortunately that's about all.

Meadow Cremation Urn

What happens when your time has come?  In a very distressed state of mind, your loved ones start to make choices about your funeral with the help of their funeral director. As part of the cremation arrangements, they try to choose an urn for containing the ashes.  At this point, while in a state of emotional duress, many opt for a basic box, with the intention of finding an urn later.  The box goes into the closet, with the idea of finding the right urn later, and it sometimes becomes a forgotten, unresolved intention.

Hopefully an urn is eventually purchased, and the funeral home will then transfer the ashes for you.  The urn may be placed in a cemetery, a columbarium niche at the cemetery or within your church, in a mausoleum, or within your family's home on a fireplace mantel, in a china cabinet, or on a shelf where it becomes a loving reminder of you, and part of the their everyday life. 

Starlight Cremation Urn - Medium Size

Most funeral homes sell traditional brass urns or wooden boxes that are affordable, practical, and utilitarian.  But does it express you, your taste, or your persona in any way? As a loving gesture to your family, you could save them the stress of this decision by pre-planning and finding your own urn.  You could leave them with something to inspire warm memories, an urn that reflects your style and personality.  They will appreciate that it was you who chose the urn -- and that it marks an expression of your identity.  Your urn would then be integrated into the funeral service at the front of the chapel, providing a focus for the proceedings, after which it would become part of a placement ceremony at the cemetery or columbarium, or be embraced into your loved ones’ home as a piece of art.

Poppies Cremation Urn

Having chosen your urn and made key decisions about your funeral preferences, you could let your family know where the urn and the information are.  You could even use the urn to contain your will, a letter to your family, or any mementos you may wish to pass along.  Or, you could use it as a piece of art in your own home, and a beautiful reminder to live well and fully each and every day.  Some people choose to enjoy it as a flower vase!  In any case, when it eventually passes on to your family, you’ll know that it will be an inspiring and uplifting reminder of you that represents your unique spirit.

To further provide for your loved ones, you could record all the necessary info that your family will need to access upon your passing.  We have a printable page called Funeral Planning Guide, where you can easily enter all the details they must gather, and store it in a place you will make them aware of - like, for example, inside your urn! 

You could ask your Funeral Professional to source an urn from our collection, by showing them our web store, or you may purchase from us direct at Cremation Urns by Legacy Canada using our Friends and Family Coupon Code FAF10, for 10% off your purchase during checkout, and free shipping!

Barbara Bergen is a designer and owner of Luxx Media and Cremation Urns by Legacy.  Working with top glass blowers, she has created and co-curated an array of exceptional and inspiring funeral urns, memorial keepsakes, cremation jewellery and pet urns in her Canadian online store, Cremation Urns by Legacy Canada, where free shipping is included on every item.