Memorial Candle ??

Ok, here's a mini bakground. FH's mother passed away a few short months after we started dating. I definitely want to remember her on the wedding day, but FH and FFIL do NOT want any kind of sad, sappy, memorial or shrine at all, at any point in the wedding.

Both my grandfathers have passed, one in '91, and the other while FH and I have been dating, and also my great uncle.

So we have a few significant family members who have passed, so I'm thinking of making a memorial candle and placing on the piano where we're going to have the place cards set up.

The florist is making an arrangement of silk lilacs, because lilacs were FH's mom's favorite flowers. We're putting that on the piano as well. I just bought a pretty frame today at Kohls, that I was thinking of typing a pretty little poem about the people in Heaven and putting that next to the lilacs.

I know I've seen them in the past - So I'm asking you ladies if you could re-post short poems about remembering those that we have lost.

TIA!!!!

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Here's a link to a page with some poetry:

http://www.luvscreations.com/p_memory.htm

There's also a poem called either 'Light A Candle' or 'Light The Candle' by Kathy Holler. I am having trouble accessing the website though, but just google it.

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While I can't help you with a poem, I just wanted to thank you for posting this. FH and I have recently been struggling about how to properly honor some relatives that meant the world to us that have passed away, and this sounds just like what we'd like - elegant and simple.

Good luck with finding just the right wording and/or poem. It's a difficult, emotional task, it seems.

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You're welcome!

I think just a short poem in a frame... no names mentioned, because everyone knows who we mean...

no shrine, so crying, no depression... just a nice reminder that they're here with us in spirit.

I know I don't have any pictures posted at all... but once this is done I'd like to post and show. Good luck!

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I lost my Dad and my brother and what I'm going to do is at the beginning of the ceremony, a candle will be lit by our alter servers. It will say 'Forever in our hearts...[their names]' - at the reception, we're going to have pics of them along with other pics of us etc. on the piano, mantleplace etc. I didn't want it to look like a shrine and I don't like a lot of the poems I've seen out there...just personal preference. Wanted it to be a little simpler.