Funeral Options
Our Funeral Services
Following a bereavement, family and friends will be faced with many unfamiliar tasks. We realise that this may be your first experience of dealing with these so from the moment you contact us at Elizabeth Snell and Family, we will do our best to make your loved ones’ funeral arrangements as simple, clear and in accordance with yours and their wishes as possible.
We will spend as much time with you as you need throughout the bereavement and arrangement process either at one of our offices or by visiting you in your home to personally guide you through the funeral arrangements and advise you on the many options available in making the final tribute to your loved one personal and fitting.
Traditional Funeral Option
This option covers all of our professional fees and also includes:
- Bringing your loved one into our care at the Chapel of Rest inside and outside of normal working hours (including weekends within a radius of up to 15 miles)
- Preparation and dressing in either one of our silk funeral gowns or clothing supplied by the family
- Use of our Chapel of Rest to spend time with your loved one during and outside of normal working hours
- Providing our hearse to transport your loved one from our Chapel of rest to the location of the funeral service and then onto the location of the Committal (if different). The Hearse may also travel via a different address en route
- Provision of members of staff to act as pallbearers
- Assistance with the production of orders of service, publication of a printed obituary notice in a newspaper(s) and ordering floral tributes
- Selection of a coffin from our range (note that the coffin costs is additional)
- Kindly note that all third-party costs are additional costs.
Essential Funeral Option
This option covers all of our professional fees and also includes:
- - Bringing your loved one into our care at the Chapel of Rest between 9.00am – 4.00pm, Monday - Friday (within a radius of up to 15 miles). If we attend outside of these times and days, an additional charge will apply
- Preparation and dressing in either one of our silk funeral gowns or clothing supplied by the family
- Use of our Chapel of Rest to spend time with your loved one during normal working hours
- Providing our hearse to transport your loved one from our Chapel of rest to the location of the funeral service. The Hearse may also travel via a different address en route. Note that with this option, the funeral service must take place at the same location as the committal
- Provision of members of staff to act as pallbearers
- Advice on the production of orders of service, publication of a printed obituary notice in a newspaper(s) and ordering floral tributes. Although these must ultimately be arranged by and paid for directly to the respective supplier by the family
- A light Oak effect coffin
- Kindly note that all third-party costs are additional costs.
Direct Cremation Option
This option covers all of our professional fees and also includes:
- Bringing your loved one into our care at the Chapel of Rest between 9.00am – 4.00pm, Monday - Friday (within a radius of up to 15 miles). If we attend outside of these times and days, an additional charge will apply
- Preparation and dressing in either one of our silk funeral gowns or clothing supplied by the family
- Providing of one of our funeral vehicles to transport your loved one from our Chapel of Rest direct to West Wiltshire Crematorium which is where all of our Direct Cremations take place
- An oak veneered coffin is included with this option
- Kindly note that the Doctors fee (if applicable) is an additional cost
- There is no provision for the attendance of mourners with this option.