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Not keen on weddings meself, well actually not strictly true, do like doing them but it's all the preamble that goes with them. Hate doing consultations, hate the brides coming in on spec all the time to show Aunty Doris who's doing her flowers and expecting me to drop everything to chat! Give me a funeral any day of the week, love me funeral work I do, it's the last thing you ever do for someone and I look on that as a privilege.

Think the worst bit is the time spent on consultation then decide on one thing and colour then look at you like you have 2 heads and on it goes for another hour then no we'll go with original arghhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's why i prefer funerals. it's all done and dusted within the week. consultation...10 minutes.
When i think back to last year and look at all the notes, drafts, redrafts, quotes, emails etc it gives me a headache. I stopped taking weddings last november when i knew what i was doing and even though it's still been a rollercoaster, i hate to think how i would have coped if i'd had to deal with that lot as well.

You are lucky having a week over here for example if you pass away before 12 midnight Mon you are buried Wed provided remains can come home. The remains is kept in the family home for 2 nights and then burial most of the time we get our funerals mid morning for delivery the following morning and most of them would be deliveried at 9am as most funerals are 10am

Generally about a week, jan-feb up to 10 days due to the backlog over xmas. Gives you plenty of time to get organised. F/d over the road gets hell over it. They come in and say "we'd like it done in 2 days"....sorry..next week at the earliest, if they can fit you in. Or..we'd like it on Sunday. ok, the crem will open for you but there is a £2,000 extra charge

That's expensive our burials are every day no days closing not even xmas don't really have cremations and have never heard of any hold ups other than post mortem or waiting for family coming home from abroad

Sorry we have had 3 over the years where burial took place on the same day as the death

Nothing much happens over xmas so they are stacked up and then it all starts in the new year, hence jan is very very busy funeral wise. To get the crem open on a sunday means getting all the staff in etc and i suppose paying everyone double time for the whole day, plus turning on the oven. we still get a lot of short notice work as people find out about the funeral, but generally the main tributes give plenty of notice. It's handy for getting white double open and as much as i carry a lot of frames, there's usually something i have to get hold of.

Yes they always want the one you haven't got I find our funeral work is a little more expensive and the time scale is the deciding factor there as flowers are usually very fresh and not had time to really open up given the short notice we have

That can be a big problem. i've seen longi lily sprays with green heads, no color whatsoever..it just doesn't look right. Bit like weddings, it's just got to look right on the day.