Friends, neighbours and old workmates send a story ahead of the day, and the family keeps the printed book.
Gathering is free. You won't need a card.
Put in their name, and add the link to the invitation.
Friends and family can capture a memory by voice, video, writing or photos, wherever they are in the world. It's easy on any phone and nobody needs an account!
We write out every voice note and gather it all into a podcast you can play and a beautiful book you can hold.
The link stays open right up to the morning of the gathering.
Some families stop the room for it, and some leave it on quietly in the background while people talk.
Anyone who'd rather not speak can type their story, and it sits in the book with the voices.
Put the book online up on a TV, and the photos people added show beside their words.
A funny story is welcome at a celebration of life.
"The first time I called for Clare, Bernie asked me at the door had I eaten. I said I had, and she put a plate of stew in front of me anyway."
"Bernie partnered me at bridge for fifteen years. We won the county cup in 2019, and she had the photo stuck on her fridge with a Lourdes magnet."
"She kicked the wall at Blackrock every morning. I asked her about it once, and she told me about falling in off the diving boards in 1974 in her good dress."
"Granny Bernie kept Club Milks in the press for when I came over, and we watched Home and Away together after school."
If you order closer to the day, the podcast link and the book online are still ready the day you order.
It was really easy to collect the stories of Mum, and it's now a book I can give all my children that really brings her to life. Pardon the pun and dark humour!!
I love Chorus! Thank you so much for giving us a chance for so many laughs remembering Tom. The family chat was taken over talking about him again with all we had uncovered. It was beautiful.
Want to write your own questions? Start a blank book
Pick a place they loved, like the golf club or the beach car park with flasks of tea, and play the music they listened to.
A celebration of life is a gathering about the person's life and the stories about them. It can be on the day of the funeral or months later.
Nothing. They can each record a message on their own phone, and it doesn't cost anything to collect them. You only pay if you want the voices edited, the book laid out or a printed copy.
Yes. They can record from anywhere in the world with the link. We post the printed book to Ireland, the UK, the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, every EU country, Norway, Iceland and Switzerland.
Start the book now and invite people whenever you're ready.
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