Every funeral is overseen by Amanda-Louise and team, our team of caring and experienced professionals, who ensure every cremation and every burial is personalised, carefully created and feels ‘right’.
A-L Traditional & Bespoke Funeral Services
One of the biggest choices you will need to make is whether you want a cremation, traditional or natural burial for the final step of the funeral. With us by your side, our full and flexible support, enables you to have a meaningful farewell, whatever your tone, style and venue.
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A-L Traditional & Bespoke Funeral Services
Whether you choose a burial or cremation funeral, it’s an opportunity to say goodbye to your loved one in a personal and respectful way, and in a manner that reflects their final wishes.
Every funeral is overseen by our team of caring and experienced professionals, who ensure every cremation and every burial is personalised, carefully curated and feels ‘right’.
We offer as many meeting as needed to create an unique farewell, we can open you up to a world of possibilities such as exploring types of order of service booklets, floral arrangements, hospitality to alternative funeral ceremony locations.
Our step by step approach means we will guide you through the legalities and advice selecting alternative hearse, coffins and other choices, if that’s important to you.
As you would expect from our caring approach, you are welcome to help care for your person whilst as our guest (from washing, applying makeup and hair styles, fingerprints to applying perfume) or asking us to place a favoured item in their coffin.
Our team will collect the ashes from the crematorium on your behalf, or assistance in choosing and purchasing our temporary and permanent headstone at the appropriate time for burials and memorial keepsakes aimed at bringing comfort in the days moving forwards.
Lean on our shoulders, not only in the logistical aspect, but our wealth of professional and experience, women’s understanding can genuine care and choice. Speak to our Amanda-Louise or Alice – specialists helping people organising unique funerals on limited budgets up to the most extravagant send-offs.
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A-L Bespoke Traditional Funeral Service
From £2,335 + choices
PERSONAL MESSAGE TO YOU FROM AMANDA-LOUISE
“I built my independent family run funeral business on kindness and experience with our desire to provide you with every aspect for you to arrange a funeral that reflects how you wish to say goodbye. So, I offer choice,support and value and am not rigid in our approach, so you only pay for what you want and need.Not all funerals are the same and no two funeral directors are the same either. Some funeral directors charge additionally for many aspects of the funeral elements. We care about the living and the departed and know how daunting it can be to arrange a funeral. So, with my heartfelt offering, below is my 10 point gift to support you in your important life decisions, warmly Amanda-Louise”
1. Our Pledge – your loved one remains in our local facilities
2. Our Compliments No Charge (if desired) - Collecting clothing in the local area, our flower placed on coffin if desired as sentimental touch, and delivery of ashes in the local area
3. 'Our Compliments No Charge - A Funeral Notice' online service
4. The ability - for Amanda-Louise Funeral Director to personally come out to your home locally to discuss arrangements in detail
5. Our Compliments No Charge - Choice is very important to us, so you have the option for your gentle funeral ceremony to be conducted by Amanda-Louise (celebrant capacity - subject to availability)
6. Our Pledge Our Heart is Local – we prefer to use only local crematoriums or cemeteries (and not take you out of our region)
7. Our Compliments No Charge - We believe that arranging a meaningful funeral can be a healing experience to support your grief journey. Amanda-Louise will personally support you and guide you through the practical aspects and offer to help you create a fitting ceremony and celebration of life. Our in-house trained bereavement support for adults and children, and open invitations to join us for our bereavement coffee sessions after the funeral enabling a comfortable space and shared experiences
8. Our Partnerships - Access to specialist bereavement counselling for those needing therapeutic structured support
9. Our Pledge for the Planet – we dedicate towards planting a tree in memory of your loved one and our unique way to benefit our environment for future generations by offering a variety of eco-friendly funeral procedures, arrangements, and products too
10. Our Pledge to Ease the Burden – we offer to provide everything you may want or need for a funeral, memorial or celebration of life under our one roof helping to remove some of the stress from your shoulders. From floristry, vehicles, orders of service and ceremony accessories, catering to venue provision and memorabilia and keepsakes
Our A-L Traditional or Bespoke Funeral Service fee includes:
Our 24/7, 365 phone response (when death occurs)
Support of the Amanda-Louise team (over the phone and in person)
Arranging, co-ordinating and conducting the funeral
Our Funeral Director and 4 pallbearers in attendance ensuring a smooth, dignified and respectful farewell
Handling all necessary documentation
Communicating with all third parties
Collection of your loved one in our private ambulance (fee based on 15 mile radius during office hours)
Care of your loved one, including dressing and makeup if required, based on up to 14 nights, at our inhouse funeral home clinical secure mortuary facility. Obtaining fingerprints or locks of hair if desired
Collecting clothing locally (if required)
Option to visit our service room to spend time with your loved one, during weekday office hours
Online obituary and funeral notice
Hearse to travel from funeral home to cemetery or crematorium via mutually agreed route (fee based on 25 mile radius)
Use of our artificial funeral wreath if wanted (or we can support you to organise fresh flowers)
Choose what coloured ties our team will wear at your farewell
Our In memory seed packets at funerals, with our compliments
Collection and administration of monies in memory to charity, if required
Saturday morning attended funerals (where offered)
Delivery of ashes locally (cremations only), support to have temporary and or permanent headstone at additional cost (traditional burials only)
Our advice and support following the funeral (if required) : access to our bereavement support groups in Minehead, our grief lending library and attendance of our memorial annual service
Third Party advice and support following the funeral (if required) : provision of complimentary grief after care and advice provided by SAIF Care, and/or access to therapeutic bereavement counselling
Our Professional Fee - £2,335.00
This price includes an attended funeral (burial or cremation) which can last up to 4 hours and takes place on a single day
Our additional charges apply - out of Hours, out of area, coffin choice, additional care
Take the Next Step
Discuss with Amanda-Louise or Alice by calling 01643 800335 or email at office@amandalouisefuneralservices.co.uk
A cost between £3,899.00 and £4,399.00 for a simple traditional funeral
If you need additional, possible or optional extras, see below for a bespoke funeral calculator breakdown.
Alternatively speak to Amanda-Louise or Alice for your personal quotation
The Breakdown of Costs - Funeral Calculator
This tool of drop down boxes is designed to be transparent helping you make informed decisions. Ask us to provide you with your personal quotation.
Our professional funeral director fees - £2,335.00 (as shown above)
Coffin Choice - from £395.00 click here to see our range
Out of hours attendance to collect your loved one into our care
£175.00
Non hospital collection ie private residence, care home, hospice
£175.00
In our charge over 14 nights
£15.00 per night
Hygienic treatment (also known as embalming) - typically
£250.00-£375.00
Removal of electrical devices (only applicable on cremations)
£150.00
Out of hours to spend time with your loved one whilst in our care (up to 1 hour)
£50.00
Supplement bank holiday funerals
£400.00
Add On
Each additional bearer (if required)
£85.00
Additional mile in private ambulance (over 30 miles)
£1.50
Additional mileage in hearse (over 30 miles)
£2.50
Repatriation Services – depends on location
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Attendance at place of worship before proceeding to the crematorium during office hours
£400.00
Additional Carriages (our essential professional fee includes our classic black and royal claret hearse with 4 professional bearers)
1) Add on our limousine (seat up to 6) if wanted
£295.00
2) Add on our private estate (up to 4 seats) ideal if you need another vehicle or need us to collect someone from station etc
£250.00
Alternative Hearse Vehicles
1. Modern all black hearse
£450.00
2. Motorcycle hearse (Triumph)
From £1295.00
3. Motorcycle hearse (Harley Davidson)
From £1365.00
4. Horse Drawn hearse
From £1,400.00
5. Alternative Hearse: VW, Tractor, 4x4, Morris Minor, Multi Coloured Hearse, Tank
Contact us
Flowers - Ask us for their brochure and price list, or whynot pop in to see them at 5 Blenheim Road, Minehead or telephone them on 01643800340 or go to their website: www.flowersatno3.co.uk
Ceremony Accessories & Orders of Service
Order of Service Booklets – luxury tailored made A5 booklet up to 8 pages
50 copies - £140.00
75 copies - £160.00
100 copies - £180.00
125 copies - £200.00
150 copies - £220.00
175 copies - £240.00
From £140.00
Custom Book of Remembrance – tailored made to same design as your Order of Service
£50 for A5
£62 for A4
Plain Book of Remembrance
£40.00 A4 or £30 A5
Memorial Pins
To supply In Memory Pins for attendee keepsakes on the day of the funeral (10 pins = £30, 20 pins = £55, 30 pins = £85, 50 pins = £135
From £30.00
Canvas – custom made canvas with photo – ideal to have displayed at funeral, and then wake - size 20”x30”
£98
Easel Hire – hire of our easel to display your canvas
£10.00
Attendance Cards
£60.00
Download Music Onto CD - Ideal for church use for pre-recorded music, we organise your tunes downloaded onto one CD
£20.00
Music CD Player Hire - Ideal if Church doesn’t have their own music system, or if want to hear music at graveside
£20.00
PA Equipment Hire - Ideal if outside service, our wireless pa equipment with speakers) comes with microphones and easy hook up to mobile phones
£100.00
Hire union jack flag drape
£25.00
Hospitality
Hire of funeral reception venue such as church halls, hotels or historic houses
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Catering - venues such as church halls, hotels or historic houses may charge room hire plus a cost per head
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Hire of our Chapel Hall for funeral ceremony and/or reception (up to 4 hours) to include tea, coffee, water (up to 45 people)
£400.00
Catering – in our Chapel Hall for funeral reception, buffet menus start from
From £10 per head
Support After The Funeral
Urns & Scatter Tubes - click here to see our selection
Memorial Keepsakes - click here to see our selection
Ashes Storage - storage fees of ashes (beyond 3 month allowed in our professional fees – must be collected within 12 months otherwise we will scatter them)
£5.00 per week
Scattering of Ashes – our funeral director to scatter of ashes with family and friends locally, and we can officiate words of farewell and committal if you wish – local
£50.00
Scattering of Ashes (used other funeral director for cremation) – our funeral director to scatter of ashes with family and friends locally, and we can officiate words of farewell and committal if you wish – local
£150.00
Interment of Ashes – our funeral director to organise internment of ashes, liaising with all those involved, admin duties, and our attendance (we can officiate words of farewell and committal if you wish or leave that to minister)
£150 for our services + church fees + ground preparation fees
Interment of Ashes (used other funeral director for cremation) – our funeral director to organise internment of ashes, liaising with all those involved, admin duties, and our attendance (we can officiate words of farewell and committal if you wish or leave that to minister)
£250 for our services + church fees + ground preparation fees
Off set the carbon footprint of your funeral by planting a tree in memory
£10.00 each
It is necessary to add either (third party costs):
NB 1) Crematoria costs below are based on typical full slot in chapel. 2)Crematoria may charge you alate exit penalty fee regardless of reason. 3) The cremated ashes to be provided in a biodegradable cardboard ashes box. 4)The ashes can be scattered at the crematorium’s garden of remembrance, collected from the crematorium or from our funeral home (within 3 months)
Funeral Venues:
Sedgemoor Crematorium Chapel & Committal Services(Monday to Friday 9.30am £925, 10.30am £1,325, 11.30-2.30pm £1,425,3.30pm £1,150, 4.30pm £925) (Saturday morning £1,425)
Taunton Crematorium Chapel & Committal Services (Monday to Friday 10am to4pm £1,142
Alternative Crematoria Chapel & Committal Services (available nationwide) -contact us
Church Cemetery Fees (these will vary depending on location) - example costs: Church - £244, Organist £70-£150, Verger £40, Lighting & Heating £40, Burial fee following service £425, Ground Preparation £600
Natural Burial Site (these will vary depend on location) - example costs:
Add if wanted
Extended 60 mins service
£395.00
Webcast & Download Copy
£85.00
Slideshow of 25 photos
£95.00*
Your choose themed Canvas Wall – when booked with slideshow*
£55.00
Funeral Video Book (with LCD screen & USB charger)
£95.00
Funeral Professionals
Religious Minister to officiate service
£240.00 to £350.00
Professional officiant fees to lead a service - average
£250.00-£350.00
Professional funeral photographer
Contact us
Professional external video of funeral and procession
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Musicians, bands, bagpipers, choirs or other performers
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Doves, butterflies, balloon release
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What to expect from us
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We care for you and your family
As your Lady Funeral Directors, Amanda-Louise or Alice can meet you in the comfort of your own home, or in our peaceful office, or via video call if you'd prefer. We will never tell you how 'things should be done', or rush you, but support you to understand and consider your choices, so that you can decide what is right for you and your family and friends.
We will listen to you, and can help you plan a funeral ceremony. We'll respect your personal beliefs, values and culture and ensure your requirements, and those of the person that has died, are reflected in the funeral. You may prefer a religious funeral, a more secular service or might want to include a number of different religious and spiritual perspectives within the same service.
We can help you to reflect on the life of the person who has died and enable you to create some positive memories to support you at a time when people can often feel sad and alone. We can support you to have a farewell that you desire - so we will support you to understand the wide range of options such as visual, musical, floral, donations, readings/poems for example, as well as organising venue and/or hospitality for your after funeral wake or reception, if you wish.
Importantly, we will be flexible to your needs and wishes and give you our time to help put your ideas into action. You can take as much control as you like. We are able to support families from across Somerset, Devon and beyond, are not regionally restricted, we can help you create an event at a time and place that is best for you.
Amanda-Louise is also a trained Celebrant, who can also personally deliver a heartfelt celebrant led (religious or non religious) service on your behalf should you wish, or we can recommend other talented professional ceremony leaders including religious ministers, celebrants and humanists.
We work hard to support the wellbeing of every family we support (adults and children).We can also provide a wealth of practical bereavement information for adults and children, and we'll ensure the funeral is meaningful for you, which helps in coming to terms with loss too.
We care for the person who has died
In our care you have trusted us to look after your loved one and we take enormous pride in treating people with respect and dignity. From the very moment the person who has died comes into our care, to the moment they leave, we will treat them with compassion, kindness and consideration. We see this as part of the cycle of life
We reach out and support people from 15 to 50+ miles away from us, as we safely transfer the deceased into our facilities. We'll care for the person entrusted into our funeral home with compassion and dignity, and treat everyone as guests in our home. Or we can assist if you prefer the deceased to remain at home or liaise with a repatriation company for deaths abroad.
We provide a comprehensive range of coffins in different materials, including coffin accessories to suit all tastes. This is a very personal choice, so we happily talk about them or can show you the differences.
We can provide the ability for family to spend time with their loved one, and to change clothing if this is important to you. Plus you can be involved in as little or as much of their care as you desire. We will gently prepare them for their funeral following your wishes including hairstyles or makeup, and whilst we do not routinely embalm we can provide this if you desire. We’ll take great care of any person effects, and give them to you ,or they will remain with the person Plus we can arrange for your items to be placed in the coffin if you wish.
We can even support you to keep your loved one at home right up until their funeral if you wish.
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On the day of the funeral
We understand that attention to detail is really important, from considering the way people enter the service to carefully calculating the journey time.
We can provide our professional pallbearers to convey the coffin. We can help you bear the coffin if that's important to you. We can arrange special routes to the funeral if you wish, or alternative hearses and limousines.
We can arrange to collect family from railway station or airport if helpful.
Some families prefer not to hold the funeral ceremony at a crematorium chapel or in church, so we can support you to have a service in a chosen hotel, hall or alternative venue that is meaningful to you.
Amanda-Louise or Alice will be by your side giving you that reassuring presence ensuring everything is going to plan smoothly, and we leave when you are ready for us to go. We can also provide attendance cards so you know who has attended the funeral ceremony service.
After the funeral
We remain connected should you need us. If we collected donations, we will provide you with audit trail so you know they have been forwarded to the relevant people, organisation or charity. We'll collect ashes if that's helpful & deliver them to you. We can arrange for you to scatter them or preserve them if you wish.
We will have spoken to you about the arrangements of the funeral flowers and carried out those wishes. And if required, we can organise graves and headstones to be put in place at a suitable time after a burial or ashes placed.
And we welcome you to stay in touch. Often our clients pop in to talk about how life is treating them, or to attend one of our coffee afternoons as life can be isolating at times following the loss of a loved one. Our kettle is always on, likely biscuits too. Rest assured, we will never stop caring - here for you whenever you need us, wherever you are.
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"We all felt totally safe opening our hearts to Amanda-Louise and were so impressed in the skills and empathy she has to understand how we all felt."
Can I view the cremation?
Many crematoria’s will allow one or two family members to be present but this will need to be arranged prior to the cremation to accommodate this. There may be an additional fee for this. If you are worried about the process, then talk to Amanda-Louise who will answer all your questions honestly.
Are bodies cremated one at a time?
Yes they are. The chamber only allows for one body at a time, which allows to check the right person is being cremated at the right time, plus the law states this.
Are coffins ever reused?
No. During a cremation the coffin is always burned. At a burial, the coffin is lowered into the ground. Out of respect for the deceased and family a coffin would never be reused under any circumstances.
What is cremation jewellery?
This term is also known as remembrance or memorial jewellery and is jewellery that has incorporated a small amount of the cremated ashes. Popular items such as rings, bracelets and necklaces but there are a variety of other items such as coloured glass ornaments too.
Do you get cremated in the coffin?
Yes, the deceased is always cremated in the coffin or a shroud (if desired). All UK crematories have to follow a very strict code of practice. Once the funeral director has sealed the coffin, no one opens it again. Sometimes you may see a coffin flag or drape over a coffin, and as these can be recycled they are often removed prior to the cremation at the request of the family.
What actually is a direct cremation?
A direct cremation is a cremation with no service or mourners in attendance. Here at Amanda-Louise Funeral Services our ethical approach means we prefer to use local crematoria’s, we still drive to the chapel in a funeral suitable vehicle and take the coffin into the chapel with full honours. As a direct funeral is seen as a no frills no fuss approach, then the deceased is placed into their coffin in clothing they have arrived in and there’s no facility for viewing. The family do not choose the date/time and location of the cremation. Availability at crematoriums is limited for this type of funeral, so the time afforded to us is only 15 minutes maximum. Its usual practice not to inform the family of the details, as we need to obey rules of direct funeral of no attendees. If this is not the option that’s right for you, then we offer a full and flexible funeral service.
Which is more expensive burial or cremation?
Typically, cremations are less expensive than a burial, but there isn’t much in it these days.
For burials, the cost will depend on whether it’s a new plot needed to be purchased, or an existing one that needs to have a stone removed in preparation, plus there is the burial cost on top. Having said that, cremation prices do vary with each crematoria provider, whether you want a funeral ceremony and for how long. Please do talk to us about your individual requirements as we always supply a quotation.
Can you be cremated without a coffin?
Yes, the UK law states that a body must be covered up when in public. As coffins are not a legal requirement for cremations, a shroud can be used to cover the deceased who is placed on a 'charging board'.
However, many crematoriums insist of having coffins. There are of course a variety of materials for coffins these days, from wood, to wood products, to wicker and cardboard too.
Are you clothed when you are cremated?
That’s up to you. You can be cremated with or without clothing. The majority of direct cremations, the deceased is cremated in whatever clothing they are wearing when they died, however for more traditional support the funeral director can help the family redress the person who has died into something chosen by the family.
Will Prosthetics or Implants be Cremated too?
This will vary. Prosthetics will depend, for example pacemakers and internal defibrillators will need to be removed before cremation, as they will explode. Many implants such as silicone breast implants will likely remain with the deceased and will form part of the cremated ashes. Whereas metal implants do not burn, and these are separated after the body has been burned.
Here at Amanda-Louise Funeral Directors, we carry out the procedure to remove pacemakers
Will the crematorium provide a ceremony leader to conduct the funeral service?
No that’s not their role. We can help you find someone that is suitable for you, unless you have someone else in mind.
We don’t want to have the funeral service held in the church, chapel or crematorium, where can we have it instead?
The choices are limitless. Many halls, sports clubs, hotels, galleries, zoos, castles, outdoor areas can be suitable to host a funeral ceremony. You can have the coffin present if you wish. Best advice is to book somewhere that is enthusiastic to your needs.
Our beautiful funeral home in Minehead is available for exclusive use to hold a service; with or without catering facilities.
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