18" Gold Fancy Heart

Love doesn’t end when someone close to us dies. Love stays in our hearts where it is nurtured by our memories.

On Valentine’s Day it is as natural to remember and honor those who have enriched our lives but are no longer with us as it is to bring flowers and chocolates to the living.

After the death of a spouse, parent, child or close friend, remembering our departed loved ones on special holidays and on birthdays and anniversaries with a gravesite wreath or floral arrangement helps us to grieve and gradually assimilate their loss into our lives.

The Gravesite Masters offers a large selection of lovely Valentine’s Day wreaths to decorate the graves of loved ones who have passed away. Heart-shaped wreaths in a wide variety of colors and designs ensure that you’ll be able to find a fitting tribute for your departed loved one. Gravesite Masters also offers a large variety of popular gravesite stick hearts that can be easily stuck into the ground at the individual’s gravesite. Bouquet and vase combos are another popular Valentine’s Day gravesite decoration. Our velvety artificial rose bouquets are so real looking you’ll want to reach out and touch them.

Not only can you purchase gravesite memorial flowers from The Gravesite Masters, but we can arrange to deliver them to the cemetery and place them on the grave of your loved one, allowing you to remember loved ones across the country.

Grief is a process. When a husband or wife, sibling or close friend or child die, the loss elicits powerful emotions. Even though expressions of grief can seem disturbing to others, they are all part of the normal grieving process. In her book On Death and Dying, Dr. Elsabeth Kubler-Ross identified five stages of grief:

• Denial - refusal to believe that death has occurred.
• Anger or blaming - need to lash out at someone, including the deceased, to rail at the world for causing your loss.
• Bargaining - attempts to make a deal with God or the Fates to return the deceased to life. In some cases, particularly long-married spouses or a parent who loses a young child, the individual will ask to die so they can be reunited with the deceased.
• Depression - blaming yourself for the death, turning your grief inward.
• Acceptance - accepting that death is part of life and that life moves forward.

Each person expresses each phase of grief in his own unique way and moves through the grieving process in his own time. Some people have trouble moving through the stages of grief and may get “stuck,” unable to move forward on their own. Support groups or professional counseling may help them process their grief. Hospice facilities and hospitals, senior and community centers and churches are good sources for grief support groups. Remembrance Registries and Life Legacies can also help family members support each other in their grief.