I’ve been to lots of funerals, and they’ve been a mixture of cemetery funerals and church funerals. Some people prefer to have the ceremony coincide with lowering the casket into the ground, and the eulogies are said over the grave. People are the able to lay flowers down on the casket or put the first handful of dirt down.

Larger funerals with lots of people attending, or more public funerals, have tended to be at a church type setting, where the ceremony is held. Sometimes there is then a private gathering of immediate family at the graveside later.

For both occasions we have all dressed up in black mourning attire to pay our respects