What You Need to Know Before Choosing the Perfect Cremation Urn

What You Need to Know Before Choosing the Perfect Cremation Urn

With such a wide range of cremation urns for ashes to choose from, it can be hard to know where to begin. This page offers some practical advice to guide you in the right direction. 

How will the urn be used?

Apart from the obvious, you need to ask yourself what you will do with the urn once it’s filled with your loved one’s ashes. Here are some options and why what you choose to do makes a difference when choosing. 

Keeping the urn at home: Perhaps you will opt to display the urn in your home to honour your loved one. Urns that are used for this can be made of a wide range of materials from resin to stone, marble, wood or even biodegradable materials.

Scattering ashes: You might choose a scattering urn with a top opening to allow you to scatter the ashes more easily. After scattering, you or your family may collect special keepsakes within the urn.

A water or natural burial: Biodegradable urns that are made from recycled materials are designed specifically to break down naturally. If you choose a water burial, perhaps you want to take a look at cremation urns in NZ that are water soluble.  If a land burial is more what you’re looking for, you can choose a biodegradable urn that could be buried or displayed.

What size?

Now that you know what type of urn you need, you need to work out what size you need. In general, for an adult urn, you will need approximately one cubic inch of space for every pound of body weight for the deceased. If in doubt, it’s best to go with a larger one. The size of an urn is up to personal preference. There is no such thing as an urn that is too big. It’s more important that the urn you purchase is large enough unless you’re planning to keep it in a place that is especially resorted in size.

If you have any extra questions or would like to take a look at our selection of cremation urns for ashes, please get in touch.

Why Choose Bay Cremation Care

At Bay Cremation Care, we are dedicated to providing everyone with options for planning an affordable yet meaningful funeral service at our funeral home in Tauranga.
We are passionate about doing everything we can to give your loved one a beautiful, respectful, memorable farewell and alleviating your pain in this challenging time.
We believe that a funeral plays a vital role in offering closure and catharsis after a loss. That is why we will go out of our way to provide you with caring, attentive service.

Based in the Bay of Plenty, Bay Cremation Care has been offering the people of Tauranga and its surrounding areas compassionate care and support in their most challenging times.
The company is run by Alistair Black, a fully qualified Funeral Director, Embalmer and member of the Funeral Directors Association of New Zealand (FDANZ) and NZ Embalmers Association.

From the moment we contacted Alistair at Bay Cremation Care we felt fully confident we had chosen the perfect person to help us plan the funeral. Alistair was compassionate, caring and knowledgeable and took us through every step of the way. He gave us time to make important decisions and gave us guidance as we needed it. He has our highest recommendation and thanks for making a very difficult situation a little easier.
Tracey
Alistair was very helpful, respectful and professional, and guided us through everything we needed. He was a great help during a difficult time, and helped ensure a smooth and easy process for us. The venue we were at was lovely, and he was happy to arrange anything extra we needed such as flowers, catering, a celebrant etc, but there was no pressure. Would absolutely recommend Bay Cremation Care.
Jonne P
From the quick and helpful correspondence at just the enquiry stage, to the unexpected urgency in need for their services and all the supportive and informative communication from the beginning to end the experience and care was outstanding. At such a vulnerable and emotional time the care from Alistair and the team at Bay Cremation Care made the experience such a positive and easy one. Thank you.
Tiana Telfer
Alistair handled our needs sensitively and efficiently. He was helpful, flexible and made a difficult task easy for our family. Recommended.
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Jenny Jenkins
If you are looking for a caring and compassionate person who is going to look after your loved one with dignity and respect then Alistair is the one. With the death of our mother, Alistair was highly professional knowledgeable, patient and considerate. We felt like we were meeting with a friend who had known our family for years.
When the time comes I can only hope I have somebody like him looking after me my brother has already booked him
Would highly recommend.
Maree Cooper

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