Information on cremation urns, including sizes, options, standards, and more to help you find the right funeral urn to fit your need. Topics include, Urns That You Can Bury, Personalized Urns, 100 of the World’s Most Beautiful Cremation Urns, and What size urn do you need? These articles will help you find the answer.
Additionally, we often will showcase some of our most popular urns with in-depth photos and videos. This gives you an inside look at the quality and craftsmanship of our products, providing you with assurance that the memorial of your choice is the right one for you and your family. We also include helpful information about what options are available for sizing, wood type/colors, and how to use and fill the urns.
Not sure where to start? Try these articles:
A Beginner’s Guide to Cremation Urns
8 Things You Need to Know About Cremation Urns
Cremation urns for couples are designed to hold the ashes of two people. Also known as “companion urns,” these containers hold an industry-standard capacity of about 400 cubic inches.
Alternatively, you can get two standard adult size urns that match or complement each other to create an urn set.
Let’s learn what you need to know about cremation urns for couples.
Continue reading Cremation Urns for Couples to Be “Together Forever”
Inurnment is simply the placing of cremated remains into a container to store or bury them. Cremated remains or “ashes” are typically inurned in a plastic or cardboard container and given to the family. The family can then purchase a permanent cremation urn and transfer the remains into the new urn.
In this fairly typical scenario, inurnment happened twice. Both times the ashes were put into a container (first into the temporary urn, then into the permanent urn), the ashes were inurned.
That’s the simple, easy answer. But if you are like most people, this is the first time you’ve dealt with body disposition and you probably have many more questions about the process.
Continue reading Inurnment Definition & Everything Else You Need to Know
Cremation urns for humans are designed to hold the cremated remains of an individual adult. The standard or typical size for a human cremation urn is 200 cubic inches, and will hold the ashes of a person who weighed up to about 200 lbs or so.
Continue reading 24 Beautiful Cremation Urns for Humans
Blue urns are the ideal final resting place for someone who truly loved the color blue. There are many blue cremation urns on the market today; these are 10 of the best. Combining top quality with beauty, elegance, unique designs, premium craftsmanship, and affordability, our list of the top 10 blue cremation urns is intended to help you find the perfect memorial for your loved one.
Continue reading Blue Urns: The Top 10 Blue Cremation Urns
If you are searching for the perfect fish urn to honor your beloved fishing enthusiast, we’ve done all the hard work for you. Not only are these the very best made-in-the-USA wood urns with fishing themes from our online cremation urn store, we’ve searched the web high and low to find all of the best fish urns for ashes to serve as the memorial urn for your fisherman. Continue reading Fish Urns for Ashes: 21 Gone Fishing Cremation Urns
When choosing the cremation urn that will serve as your loved one’s final resting place, it is worth the time and effort to find the best quality at a respectable price.
While there are many types of urns out there, perhaps there is no greater disparity in quality among wooden cremation urns. While the photos you see online may look similar, don’t be deceived. There is an unbelievable difference between genuine solid wood cremation urns and the cheap knockoffs that use veneers and particle board.
You want the real deal. You want solid wood cremation urns, made in the USA. Continue reading Solid Wood Cremation Urns, Made in the USA: The Real Deal
In today’s reader mailbag, we have a series of questions about the use of scattering urns for holding the ashes, airline travel, scattering, and eventual display as a memorial. Continue reading Mailbag: Questions about Scattering & Scattering Urns
Tealight cremation urns provide a way to subtly display your loved one’s remains in a way that truly honors their memory. Each time you light the candle, you can visualize the way they brought so much beautiful light into your life. Continue reading 19 Tealight Cremation Urns to Light a Candle in Memory
Green is a beautiful color for a cremation urn. Symbolic of thriving life, renewal, energy, and nature, green-colored memorials are ideal to honor a wide variety of personalities and interests.
Continue reading 29 Gorgeously Green Cremation Urns for Humans & Pets
From our Reader Mailbag, a question about our Memorial Tree Urns. These are cremation urns that hold a small amount of cremated remains (a.k.a. “ashes). The urn is then “planted” in the ground, and a tree grows from the included seeds, incorporating the remains into the tree.
The proprietary composition of the urn helps the ashes actually aid in the growth of the tree. This keen reader had a question about the use of the cremated remains themselves, and whether or not they expire. Continue reading Mailbag: How long after death can ashes be used to grow a tree?
