Once the final services for your loved one are complete with funeral homes in Westmont, PA, you may have flowers to consider. While there may be too many arrangements for you to preserve them all, there are certain options that you might want to keep because they are so special. Here are some options for preserving the flowers that people sent to the funeral home.

Press Flowers

One option is to press certain flowers and the process is simple. You can place the flowers in wax paper and press them in the pages of a heavy book. Leave them that way for a few days and they will be nice and flat and ready for another process soon.

Frame Them

Once the flowers are pressed, you can think about what you want to do with them. Some people will frame them and put that picture up on the wall. You can place it with a photo of your loved one or even place them around a picture in one frame to make a memorial for them extra special.

Make Bookmarks

Flowers can make beautiful bookmarks. Place a flower on a piece of cardboard and use packaging tape to secure it. Every time you have the bookmark in your book, you think about your loved one and the beautiful flowers that were present at their services.

Dry Flowers

Another thing you can do with flowers after the funeral service is to dry them out. Select the flowers you want and hang them upside down in your home so they can dry out and preserve their colors at the same time instead of wilting up and dying.

Place The Arrangement Safely

Once the flowers are dried out, you can arrange them in a vase or another area and keep them in a lovely arrangement to remember your loved one. Place the vase on the mantel, perhaps, next to a picture of your loved one so you can remember them with that photo and some flowers from their funeral at the same time.

Donate The Rest

You likely are going to get too many flowers to be able to preserve them all. And if you did press or dry them all out, you would have to figure out what to do with all of them. Decide what you want to keep and the rest, you can donate. You might have the funeral home take them to a local hospital or nursing home. There are also organizations that take floral donations, re-arrange them, and then donate them to local hospitals to bring cheer to those who need it.

When you are thinking about what you should do with your loved one’s flower arrangements after their services at funeral homes in Westmont, PA, consulting the professionals at Simple Alternatives Funeral Home & Crematory can only help. We have dealt with flowers before and we have lots of ideas and options that can help you move in the right direction to memorialize at least some of the beautiful flowers you used.