Meaningful Memorial Gifts for Honoring a Loved One

Memorial gifts are a meaningful way to honour a lost loved one. From plaques to bookmarks, here are our top memorial gift ideas that you’re sure to love.

You’re mourning for a loved one and find it difficult to focus on funeral memorial gift ideas.

After all, nothing could ever fully encompass the positive influence they’ve had on people’s lives. However, memorial gifts can still sustain their memory for years to come, offering even those unfamiliar with the deceased a brilliant glimpse into the love they were surrounded by.

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Which memorial gifts in Ireland help celebrate the departed’s life? How many different ways could you personalize your celebration of their life?

Keep reading to learn more.

1. Memorial Plaques

Memorial plaques are reliable, traditional memorial gifts. They offer a permanent landmark that immortalizes the departed’s legacy.

In memory of dad, gifts like these can be propped up somewhere inside his family home. They could also function as Father’s Day memorial gifts when his loved ones experience their first Father’s Day without him.

For the commemoration of a wife, memorial gifts like these help their spouses continue celebrating their love for years to come. They also make great memorial gifts for the loss of a grandfather, who’s had decades to make an impact on others and his lineage.

So if you’re looking for in memory of gifts for him or her, use memorial plaques. They effectively express how permanent their impact on other people’s lives is.

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2. Personalized Photo Frame

Unlike regular picture frames, personalized photo frames are tailored to the recipient and/or the photo’s subject. There’s also more opportunity to make them more sentimental due to customization.

It offers a one-of-a-kind placeholder for your favourite photograph. These photo frames can also emphasize the deceased’s unique importance, allowing for custom engraving to display their name or special relationship with the recipient.

Use these as memorial gifts for the loss of a sister, engraving her name and role in your life on the frame. For commemorating a father, memorial gifts like these can function as more intimate ways to memorialize him. Personalised in loving memory gifts such as these can help loved ones memorialize the departed on a daily basis.

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3. Memorial Garden

Flowers do not last as long as most other gift ideas for the memory of a loved one on this list. But flowers have always held potent cultural meaning, including posthumous memorialization. This can be a great personalised memorial gift for the loss of a mother.

If you decide to plant a memorial garden, you have three common avenues to choose from. One, is planting flowers that traditionally have commemorative significance. Two, planting flowers that the departed loves, regardless of what they mean.

Either way, garden memorial gifts let life represent life. This is especially true if they had a green thumb and were passionate about their landscaping upkeep.

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4. Sympathy Flowers

Although memorial gardens are gorgeous, not everyone has the means to plant one. That, or they may not believe that a garden best represents the deceased’s memory.

Despite this, flowers still have significant symbolic meaning. Many people still appreciate gorgeous bouquets as bereavement memorial gifts while grieving. For that reason, it’s best to almost always offer sympathy flowers for the aggrieved.

Lilies, daisies, and carnations are some of the most popular sympathy flower options. But ensure that your efforts don’t clash with them by double-checking their culture’s specific flower-giving traditions. Some people might also specifically request no flowers at funerals.

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5. Posthumous Work Completion

Out of all memory lane gifts, this one can be acutely profound. If the departed was working on an unfinished project, you could finish it for them. This can both honour their hard work and give you some vital closure.

Their work could also offer a glimpse into some of their final closing thoughts. If you publish an unfinished book of theirs, you also intimately key others into their brilliance and hard work.

However, publishing isn’t necessary for successful memorialization. You could keep their works archived away and with their family. This preservation will allow future generations to investigate their family history and understand their roots.

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6. Sympathy Food Gift Baskets

The departed’s funeral might ask for no flowers, or you might know their closest loved ones are not taking care of themselves. Either way, you could offer a sympathy gift basket to show your condolences. It can also provide vital sustenance that also demonstrates your care.

Bakery gift baskets provide easily digestible, highly palatable pastries — crucial for those whose mourning might make it difficult to eat food. Many sympathy baskets will also contain premium fruits, crackers, cheeses, deli meats, and cookies. These options provide a generous, thoughtful bounty with a comparably nutritional balance.

Sympathy gifts that are both functional and memorializing could be perfect for the deceased’s loved ones. Even if it’s not the only gift offered, it acknowledges your sympathy and helps those close to the departed nourish themselves.

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7. Tree Planting

Planting trees in departed ones’ honour can be noble personalised memorial gifts in Ireland. Growing trees from cremated remains is a popular burial method, but you could simply plant a tree in their honour.

Planted trees are particularly great memory gifts for the loss of parents. It’s a great idea to plant one near their family home, but you could also plant trees in protected botanical areas.

To commemorate a parent’s life as a son, memorial gifts like these demonstrate the lives they’ve fostered. In memory of grandpa, gifts like these let his memory live on.

You could also conjoin it with other memorial moments and gifts, such as a memorial plaque. With both, the tree’s growth will keep the deceased’s legacy alive, looking strong and enduring in its capability as it grows.

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8. Charitable Donation

If there are any causes that the deceased were passionate about, make a generous donation to a relevant charity. Here, “generous” isn’t defined by a fixed amount of pounds or Euros.

You could also donate to a charity that tries to solve problems your loved one endured. Breast cancer donations are great personalised memorial gifts for the loss of a mother who passed away due to the condition. Donations could be given to youth education centres if they were passionate about solving a childhood struggle.

Instead, you offer what you can, understanding that every bit of currency helps advance the organization’s goals. Doing so also lets you carry out the departed’s altruistic will, even if they can’t do it themselves. Some people even regularly donate to the departed’s cause to continually memorialize their empathy for others.

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Memorial Gifts to Celebrate Loved Ones

To celebrate someone in loving memory, gifts in Ireland can be enduring tokens of one’s legacy. By referring back to this guide, you can celebrate the extraordinary impact the departed have had on their loved ones — including you.

At Printpoint Memorial, we offer personalized memorial gifts in Ireland that people can customize with free templates on our site. The best memorial gifts will sustain their memory, allowing even those unfamiliar with the deceased to recognize how loved they were. Browse our memorial gift selection to get started.