Custom Urns: Shadow Box Cremation Urn
This elegant custom cremation urn was created exclusively for an Une Belle Vie client who wanted a fitting memorial display to celebrate their loved one.
Custom Urns: Blown Glass Memory Globes
With custom cremation urns, there’s virtually nothing that can’t be achieved. These beautiful glass globes allow a loved one’s ashes to be blown into the glass for an everlasting memory.
Custom Urns: A Seaside Sea Lion
Every now and then, we’ve mentioned that we do custom cremation urns for our clients looking for something special. Today, we wanted to share with you some of our latest projects that we’ve completed
Strange But True: The Latest in Odd News
Don’t miss the odd news article about iPods and laser light shows at a Singapore columbarium (a resting place for cremated remains)! Some odd news snippets from around the globe.
Pre-Need Planning: Celebrations on Your Terms
We want you to know how what we do compliments the pre-need planning process and helps decipher the “how to plan a funeral” quandary. Some fun (yes, fun!) questions to ask your friends and family to help select an urn that helps your family remember the essence of you.
Green Cremation: Une Belle Vie Applauds New Bio-Cremation Alternatives
While many don’t know this, cremation is not an environmentally-friendly practice. That’s one of the reasons why we’re such advocates of the new bio-cremation or “green cremation” alternatives being presented.
Personal Keepsake Urns to Celebrate Life
Cremation keepsake urns are perfect ways for families and friends to celebrate the enduring memory of a loved one or pet. See some of the diverse and beautiful keepsake urns available. Finding the ideal celebration of your loved one’s unique personality is easier than you might think!
Death Traditions Across Cultures: A Brief World View
What types of death traditions span the many cultures that make up this wonderful world? It’s a question we’re faced with here at Une Belle Vie each day as we review potential new artists, new pieces for our collection and the people who would find our selected pieces suitable memorials for their loved ones.
Glass Cremation Urns: An Artistic Alternative
When you think of a cremation urn, it’s likely you’re thinking of a typical metal or ceramic vessel of a very traditional shape. But glass? Indeed! Cremation urns come in a wide variety of materials to suit any personality and celebrate any left. Glass is among the more creative materials available for a cremation urn.
Strange But True: Government Subsidies for Death
Are cremation costs subsidized by state governments? Read more and contribute your own strange but true story at Une Belle Vie’s website. Celebrate a beautiful life with unique cremation urns.
Ashes to the Wind: A Guide to Scattering Ashes
Scattering the cremains of a loved one can be a traditional and moving way to say farewell, but is not as simple and clean as the phrase “scattering ashes,” implies. In fact, thanks partially to inaccurate portrayals in the media, most people don’t really understand what it takes to dispose of cremated remains. If done incorrectly, rather than a moving farewell ceremony, scattering the ashes (which aren’t even really ashes) of your loved one can be an emotionally draining and unpleasant experience. To ensure that the ceremony goes well, instead of merely choosing a spot and attempting to throw the ashes to the wind, cast them carefully downwind, pour them or place the scattering urn into a trench, rake them into loose soil (as at a scattering garden), or release them from a boat or plane. Plan ahead for your ceremony and be sure to check with local authorities, such as park rangers, to make sure that it is legal to scatter ashes in the location you’ve chosen, as cremation and scattering laws vary from state to state and municipality to municipality.
