Cemetery memorials serve as a focus point for someone’s memories to help preserve the persons memories or honour them.
Cemetery memorials can range from headstones to vases to plaques. A common theme throughout memorials is however that they are generally all made from stone. A popular cemetery memorial is a granite or marble shaped ‘book’. Vases allow for a permanent place for flowers to be placed appropriately by a persons resting place.
Most Cemetery memorials are made of Granite or Marble. Marble Headstones for graves are identified by their white unpolished appearance where as Granite Headstones are shiny and may come in a wide variety of colours. Occasionally cemetery memorials may be made from metals such as bronze or other materials however each cemetery has a set of guidelines which must be adhered to detailing what is and is not allowed for cemetery memorials. These guidelines may vary from cemetery to cemetery and should be consulted before purchasing any cemetery memorial.
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When considering purchasing a cemetery memorial the material and what you want from it should be taken into account, granite does not weather and lasts far longer than marble but marble is easier to carve which allows more complex patterns to be carved into it than granite.
Cleaning cemetery memorials should be done with soapy water, in cases where this does not clean the memorial appropriately a professional should be contacted to perform the cleaning.
