Visitation

Inspiration to help you understand and plan a funeral visitation to help loved ones have a chance to say goodbye.

The visitation, also known as a wake or viewing, gives family members a chance to say goodbye before burial or cremation. Some religious practices may have certain guidelines and traditions about how this particular event occurs. But you you’d like to mix things up a bit.

Location and time? The visitation usually takes place before a funeral service and it’s often held in the church or funeral home where the funeral service will take place.

Who is invited? Most times the visitation is open to anyone who had some connection to the person for whom the funeral service is being help, but it can also be a private event for close family.

Other details? Besides photos and personal objects, video and a playlist of music are more and more commonplace.

Open or closed-casket during visitation? If you will be buried in a casket, you can choose whether you would like your body to be viewed (open-casket) or not (closed-casket) during the visitation.

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