What Is a Cremation Ceremony?

A Cremation Ceremony is Aura’s simple take on a traditional funeral. It allows families to give their loved one a memorable goodbye with personal touches and carefully thought-out detail.

It is a forty-five-minute ceremony which may include music, readings, poems and visual tributes. Taking place at a crematorium of your choice, the service is led by a religious minister or a celebrant with the family in full control of how the service should run, and the number of guests that can be invited is limited only by the crematorium’s maximum capacity – which is often over 100 people.

What happens at a Cremation Ceremony?

Aura’s Cremation Ceremony gives families the opportunity to create a service for their loved one, that is a befitting tribute to remember them by.  It can be a send-off that is as simple or as special as you want it to be.

Working closely with the celebrant or religious minister and our dedicated team of Aura Angels, the family chooses how they would like the service to run. There is no funeral director present to influence proceedings, which means that the ceremony is intimate, special and personal, and it is fully led by the religious minister or celebrant, with full guidance from the family.

Friends and family can share photos, video clips, sing and listen to eulogies, poems, songs or readings. There is no set formula to follow, which is the beauty of a Cremation Ceremony with Aura.

With no formal procession, hearses or limousines, the person who has died will be taken privately to the crematorium before the service, and will be resting in the chapel when the guests arrive.

How much does a Cremation Ceremony cost

A Cremation Ceremony with Aura costs a total of £1,895 which includes the cremation fees, a simple coffin, administration and paperwork support and the hand-delivery of your loved one’s ashes to your chosen address.

The cost also includes full Aura Angel support in preparing everything for the ceremony, including uploading your chosen music to the crematorium’s system and helping the family to prepare readings, poems, visual tributes and a eulogy – if that’s what the family would like.

There may be additional costs depending on the circumstances surrounding a death, such as urgent collection fees and oversized or bariatric coffin fees, but our expert Aura Angel support team will guide you through these if they are required.

We’ll hand-deliver the ashes back to you within 21 days of the cremation, so you can scatter or store them however you’d like to.

What’s the difference between a Cremation Ceremony and a direct cremation?

A Cremation Ceremony includes all of the services of a direct cremation, including bringing the person who has died into our care at our state-of-the-art facilities in Birmingham, a simple coffin, cremation fees and returning the ashes of the person who has died to the family within 21 days of the cremation.

With a direct cremation, there are no attendees or service to attend, and the family do not have a choice of where the cremation can take place.

A Cremation Ceremony, on the other hand, includes the option for an unlimited number of guests to gather at a crematorium of the family’s choosing. A Cremation Ceremony with Aura also includes a forty-five minute service, remembering the person who has died in a special and deeply personal service.

Cremation Ceremony with Aura

Here at Aura, we help families to focus on celebrating the life of someone they love, in a way that feels right to them.

But we also understand that those first stages of grief after we lose a loved one can bring some of the most difficult days that a person can face. That’s why we have a dedicated, professional team of Aura Angels to guide you through the process from start to finish.

Our Aura Angels will talk to you, listen to you, celebrate life with you, and mourn with you. They will take you by the hand and help you through the process step-by-step, or step back and let you lead the way. In whatever way you need them, whenever you need them, our Aura Angels will be there.

Whether you would like to arrange a simple direct cremation so that you can celebrate your loved one’s life when the time feels right, or a fully attended ceremony to bring the most treasured people together for one final goodbye, Aura is with you.

Choose to celebrate and remember a life in the way that feels personal.

To find out more about Aura Funerals or to speak to a member of our Aura Angel team, please call 0333 242 1088.