How to Buy a Gravestone

Video Transcript

"Our topic today is how to purchase a gravestone, or how to purchase a tombstone, or a cemetery marker, or a monument. Which are all basic synonymous terms for how to purchase a gravestone. When it comes time or you feel like it's time for you to purchase a gravestone, you would need to contact a monument company, or in some instances the cemetery, where you have maybe purchased a cemetery space. They also sell monuments or gravestones. The best way for you to determine which is best for you is to talk to the cemetery, to the owner or the office of the cemetery to see what type stones are allowed in the cemetery where you will be buried. Once you find that information, you will find that there are a large variety of choices when it comes to a gravestone. Many of us feel, or are familiar with the old gray granite tombstone and you can purchase those in the basic shape and form. But, that's not the limit of what you can purchase. You can purchase those in that gray granite form, or you can buy black granite, or brown granite, or there's all types of exotic types of granite or stone that you can purchase stone in, or a monument in. You can purchase all shapes and sizes, and what is so neat about this part of the industry today, is that there is so many different varieties of what you can do with the stone. You can take a picture of the individual and it can be laminated or placed on top of the stone, or there are cases where you can carry a picture of your deceased or a picture of his favorite car, or his favorite farmhouse and all of this can be engraved into the stone permanently. To set a memory or a visual memory for those who come back to the grave later on. So just contact your cemetery to find out what stones are allowed in that cemetery and then contact a monument dealer somewhere that is close to you and find out the different options that are available and the price ranges that are available for your gravestone, or tombstone, or monument, whichever one you would like to refer to it."