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Wooden Cremation Urn Video

You’ve come to the right place to create a beautiful memorial!

Best Reasons to Buy a Wooden Cremation Urn

  •     Natural Beauty
  •     Many Wood Urns Can be Customized with Engraving
  •     Great Selection of Wooden Urns Made in USA

Wooden cremation urns are an excellent choice for a memorial and prized for natural beauty and warmth.

Hardwood urns like Oak, Cherry, Walnut and Burl wood urns are available in our wood urn collection.

Wooden urns for ashes range from a simple pine boxes to elegant carved memorial chest urns or flag display case for military veterans.

Whether your loved one was a biker, crazy about golf, or an American patriot, there’s probably a wood cremation urn to match the personality. Most of the wood urns at Urn Garden can be personalized with engraving to create a custom cremation urn for your loved one.

wooden creamation urns

Urns for Ashes Video

Shopping for urns for ashes is probably the last thing you want to be doing right now, or ever. When trying to make a decision about which urn for ashes to get, it helps to know where the final resting place will be. Are you going to keep it in the home, bury, or scatter the ashes? You may decide that a bronze urn that can be kept in the home and moved to the cemetery later might be a good choice. Brass urns are an affordable option and provide secure storage of the ashes and can also be buried. Biodegradable urns are available for ash scattering ceremonies or an earth friendly green funeral.

Feel free to call Urn Garden for personal service if you need assistance making your selection.

Urns for Ashes

 

Pat’s Place Christmas Eve 2011

Part of our holiday ritual is the Christmas Eve open house at the in-laws. Friends and family gather and over the years people come and go. One of the regular guests was widowed in September and was working through her first Christmas without her husband. She’s back to work and some days are better than others. Her son escorted her to the party and although his mother came every year, it was his first appearance and he navigated the waters of a house full of semi strangers.

When the widow married her husband 13 years ago, she moved into the home that he bought new back in the ’70s. Style wise, nothing has changed since he bought the place, except for replacing the dishwasher.  The carpet?  40 years old. Paint?  Never.  He was a heavy smoker. It was his stuff, his place.

She’s decided it’s time for an update. She hasn’t touched a thing since he died.  His toothbrush is in the bathroom.  His clothes are hanging in the closet. She’s ready to start culling his collection and freshen things up. She knows it will take time to go through the house, room by room and she didn’t seem too overwhelmed at the prospect. She plans to start with the rugs, start from the ground up.   Seems logical.

We talked about traditions and routines.  He always surprised her with a nice piece of jewelry for at Christmas and she loved his choices.  She said she’d miss that.  What about a ring or bracelet with his birthstone  as a memorial to her husband?  She loved the idea.   Maybe next year. We’re just trying to get through today.

Winter Season Blown Glass Urn

One of the most elegant styles of cremation urns is the Winter Season blown glass urn. This urn is designed for discriminating families that want a work of art to hold the ashes of their loved one.

glass urn for ashes
Winter Season Blown Glass Urn

The art of glass blowing dates back to before Christ to the Middle East using the ancient technique of heating limestone, sand, and soda ash to a molten state and then blowing and shaping the glass into vases and urns.

The Winter Season glass urn has rich shades of copper and chocolate that reflect gold light and result in one-of-a-kind color patterns and details. That’s why blown glass and crystal remain the choice for artistic funerary urns.

blown glass cremastion urn