The total funeral invoice is made up of three main parts:
The Professional Services Fee
This is our fee, Please note our professional services fee is not set in concrete like some other funeral homes. Our professional services fee is totally flexible depending on what you require us to do.
Our fee covers all or part of the following:
- A funeral director available at all times
- Attending to families
- Transfer of deceased
- Securing doctor’s certificate or liaising with the coroner for release of the deceased
- Securing cremation papers and arranging for the Medical Referee’s release if necessary
- Preservation and presentation of the deceased, transfer of deceased to another location i.e. residence/marae if required
- Please note additional transport costs could be incurred for out of region transfers
- Arranging flowers
- Newspaper notices
- Catering
- Liaising with Clergy/Celebrant
- Arranging church/venue
- Securing an organist, RSA, buglers, pipers if required
- Liaising with crematorium/council as necessary
- Use of hearse as required
- Registering death with Birth, Deaths & Marriages
- Uplifting ashes & returning them to family if cremated.
Caskets, Urns & Other Merchandise
These are any items you purchase from us such as caskets, urns, scatter tubes and funeral jewellery.
Other Charges
With your instructions and on your behalf, we will pay for other services such as:
- Doctor’s cremation authority
- Medical Referee’s cremation authority when required
- Crematorium or council interment fees (both burial or ashes) & associated fees if required
- Clergy/Minister/Celebrant’s fee
- Church/venue hire fee
- Organist/bugler/piper fee,
- Verger’s fee
- Newspaper notices
- Service sheets
- Flowers – casket spray or sheath & committals
- Catering
- Memorial book
- Printing of photos and frame where necessary
- Photo show presentation
- Videoing of service
- Live streaming of service
- Sound technician/technical support and hire of technical equipment if necessary
All of the above will be itemised on the funeral invoice so you can see exactly what each item costs. Please do not hesitate to ask us if you require an estimate of costs.
