How to Lay Flowers at a Headstone

To lose someone you love is always difficult. Celebrate their life and their memory by placing some of their favorite flowers at their headstone after death. Whether you go once a week or once a month, adding flowers to their grave is something easy that will give you peace. To add flowers to a grave helps cope with losing someone and will brighten up the headstone.

Things You'll Need

• Flowers

Instructions

1. Retain information about the graveyard where the headstone is located. Each cemetery has different policies for accepting flower arrangements and displays.

2. Decide which type of flower you will use for your headstone. Some flowers have different messages, but typically the best flower to chose is one that was a favorite of the lost.

3. Place your flowers at the headstone. Certain headstones have granite or bronze vases, making placement easier.

4. Following placement, reflect on your life and positive memories with the individual.

Tips & Warnings

• Purchase flowers that will last longer (ask your local florist) or dry your flowers beforehand.

References

• Sympathy - Sympathy Etiquette
• Cemetery Headstones: Rules and Regulations
• Sympathy Flowers