Dear Louise, We just wanted to write to express our sincerest thanks for the wonderful service you gave for our mum E on the 17^th. So many friends and family came up to us at the gathering afterwards to say how lovely and moving they had found it. They and we all felt it captured and reflected mum’s life and personality so well. We also wanted to say just how much we appreciated your gentle kindness when you visited us to discuss the service. This helped ease our apprehension and stress over trying to get the service right. You do a very meaningful thing and we cannot thank you enough. Our best wishes to you and your family.

On behalf of the family, I would like to express our sincere gratitude for such a lovely and dignified ceremony. In particular it was very pleasing to be able to include the grandchildren’s tributes. The ceremony captured the essence of Mum’s life in a very fitting manner – We all believe that it is just what Mum would have wanted.

Just wanted to say thank you so much for the beautiful words and the time you took for dad’s ceremony it was truly a great reflection of him. Everyone said how lovely it was xxx

Thank you so much, I really mean that, everyone spoke very highly of you today – many people assumed you knew D before he died, just shows how well you described him and how right the tone of your ceremony was. I can’t imagine how you do this for people, but I’m so very glad you do.

I just wanted to thank you for today it was just right. It was lovely for everyone to hear the story of F’s life and to celebrate it. Everyone I spoke to really enjoyed it and I think F would have too. Thank you again.

Dear Louise, Thank you so much for Wednesday. You really felt like one of us and the service was just beautiful. Can’t thank you enough for your gentle kindness and lovely words.

Thank you so much for making my father’s service so perfect last Wednesday. We will always be incredibly grateful for getting his send off so right and so ‘him’. Delighted is the wrong verb choice – but mum was as delighted as you can be about a funeral. On a personal note, thank you for being a very calming influence throughout the process. You made us all feel very comfortable in a difficult situation. So grateful, a thousand thank yous

So many people commented on the service and on you especially. They all said it was so personal, emotional and so X. Thanks again

I just wanted to thank you again for the wonderful job you did on Tuesday. It cannot be easy to enter a family’s life history and sum up a person vivid and dear to them. Many people complimented us on the service. You orchestrated it so well and led us through the process so calmly.

Dear Louise, I wanted to write to you to thank you for the ceremony you conducted for Dad on Thursday. You had the most wonderful, calm manner and spoke about Dad with such sensitivity and gentleness. It was hugely appreciated. Thank you also for the copies of the script. They are much appreciated and a lovely reminder of the day.

Myself and the whole family would like to thank you very much for a lovely service yesterday. J I’m sure would have loved it.

Dear Louise, Just to say a huge thank you for the lovely service you gave for our dad on Tuesday. It was beautifully done and I have recommended you to the funeral directors. You spoke with such grace and compassion and we will always remember your kindness and sincerity.

Hi Louise, Thank you so much for the wonderful service for L.  I lost count of how many people commented on what a beautiful service it was, and their first Humanist experience.  We were amazed at how many people were there.

Dear Louise, I would like to thank you for all you did to help commemorate L’s life. I felt that your ‘presentation’ at the funeral ceremony was lovely and it seemed that you were yourself somehow engaged in the event and not just reading it. Also I expect that you got good marks at school for ‘Composition!’

Speaking to some people afterwards it was clear that your service really mattered to them – and that is what we wanted to happen. Thank you.

Thank you for writing and presenting such a wonderful commemoration – everyone mentioned how impressed they were, some saying it was the best funeral they’ve been to!

Thanks again, and best wishes J

I wanted to write to thank you for conducting B’s funeral so well yesterday.  Everyone we spoke to afterwards responded very positively to the style and contents of the service and the way you conducted it, even those people who consider themselves to have religious beliefs.  More than anything people liked the complete focus on B and his life …Yours most gratefully, S