Guides

Planning Your Own Memorial Before You Die
Recording your own life while you can still do it properly. What to leave, who should be able to reach it, and the practical steps that stop it being lost the week after you go. Read more...
Memorial QR Code vs a Plain Engraved Plaque
If you are buying a plaque anyway, the question is whether to add a code to it. What each one does, what each costs, and why the answer is usually both. Read more...
Can You Make Your Own Memorial QR Code? A Straight Answer
Yes, and here is exactly how, for about a fiver. Also the four places DIY quietly fails years later, so you can decide with both halves of the picture. Read more...
What Is a Digital Memorial? A Plain UK Guide
Online memorial pages, memorialised social accounts, digital legacy vaults and QR-linked memorials are all called the same thing. What each one actually is, what it costs, and how each fails. Read more...
Remembrance, War Graves and QR Codes: What Is Allowed
You cannot alter a Commonwealth War Graves headstone or a listed village memorial. Here is what you can do, and where to find a service record. Read more...
Memorial Trees and Gardens: Markers, Rules and QR Plaques
What to plant, why ashes can kill a tree, what memorial woodlands allow, and how to mark it so the marker survives the mower. Read more...
Memorial QR Codes for Funeral Directors
Where these fit in the arrangement, why the aftercare conversation is the right moment, and what to check before putting your name near a supplier. Read more...
Memorial QR Code or a Longer Headstone Inscription?
The real alternative is not nothing. It is paying a mason for more letters. Here is what each option actually buys you. Read more...
Where To Put a Memorial QR Code: 12 Places Families Actually Use
Twelve places a memorial QR plaque can go, what permission each needs, and which ones actually get scanned. Read more...
Pet Memorial QR Codes: Remembering an Animal Properly
No permissions, no rules, no waiting. Where to put a pet memorial plaque, what to put on the page, and why it helps children. Read more...
Memorial Page Privacy: Who Can See It, and What To Leave Off
Public, unlisted or private, whether data protection law covers the dead, the fraud risk families walk into, and the safeguarding case nobody warns you about. Read more...
Are Memorial QR Codes Worth It? An Honest Look
The case for, the case against, the one test that predicts whether you will regret it, and a free way to find out before spending anything. Read more...
Do Memorial QR Codes Work Without Phone Signal?
An honest answer: the code scans anywhere, but the page needs data. What that means for rural cemeteries, and how to design around it. Read more...
How To Set Up a Memorial QR Code, Step by Step
The order to do things in, the test almost nobody runs before fixing the plaque, and the final step that decides whether any of it gets used. Read more...
Memorial QR Codes for Ashes and Urns
Around three quarters of UK funerals are cremations, and an urn needs nobody's permission. How to add a memorial QR code to ashes, and what to do if they were scattered. Read more...
How to Clean a Headstone Without Damaging It
Water, a soft brush and patience. Almost everything else people use, including bleach, wire brushes and pressure washers, causes damage that cannot be undone. Read more...
Scattering Ashes in the UK: Where You Are Actually Allowed
There is no law against it and no licence needed. What you do need is the landowner's permission, and a few rules about water that catch people out. Plus the practical part nobody warns you about. Read more...
When Can You Put a Headstone on a Grave? UK Timings Explained
Most burial authorities make you wait six to twelve months for the ground to settle. Why, what you can do meanwhile, and how long the whole process really takes from decision to stone. Read more...
How to Save a Voicemail From Someone Who Has Died
Carrier voicemail deletes itself, often within weeks, and cancelling their phone contract wipes it instantly. Do this first, before anything else on the list. Read more...
How to Make a QR Code for an Obituary or Order of Service
A code on the order of service means everyone at the funeral leaves with a way back to the memorial. How to make one properly, what size to print it, and the mistakes that make it unscannable. Read more...
What Do Coins on a Gravestone Mean?
A penny, a stone, a poppy, a pebble. What people leave on graves and what each one is said to mean, including the parts of the story that are better documented than others. Read more...
"Unlimited Photos" on a Memorial Page: What It Actually Means
Four suppliers say unlimited. One says 250MB. One says thirty photographs. Here is what those actually hold, why unlimited is usually a bet rather than a promise, and how to work out what you need. Read more...
The Life Behind vs Scan2Remember: Buying a UK Memorial From America
They are the cheapest in this comparison and they do not charge a subscription. They also ship from Delaware, which changes delivery, returns and possibly what you pay at the door. Read more...
The Life Behind vs Forever Connected: 250MB and What It Holds
They publish a real storage figure, which almost nobody in this trade does. It is 250MB. Here is what that actually holds, and the other things a UK family should weigh before buying in euros. Read more...
The Life Behind vs Digital Gravestones: The £2 a Month Question
Their plaque starts at £50 and the page is £2 a month. Ours is £69.99 once. Over the life of a memorial that is the difference between £70 and roughly £500, worked through properly. Read more...
The Life Behind vs a Free Memorial Page: When Free Is the Better Answer
MuchLoved and others will host a memorial page for nothing, and for a lot of families that is the right choice. What free does not give you, and the cheaper middle route nobody sells you. Read more...
The Life Behind vs a £30 Etsy or Amazon QR Plaque
Marketplace memorial plaques run from £3.59 to £161 and three completely different products hide behind the same photograph. How to tell which one you are buying, and when the cheap one is the right buy. Read more...
The Life Behind vs Story Medallion: An Honest Comparison
They give you two medallions for less than we charge for one plaque. We hold thirty times more photographs. A fair look at both, written by one of the two companies involved. Read more...
The Life Behind vs Remember Me QR: An Honest Comparison
They are half our price on day one and charge £1.99 a year afterwards. We charge once. A fair look at both, written by one of the two companies involved. Read more...
Memorial QR Code Companies Compared: What UK Families Actually Get for Their Money
Six UK memorial QR suppliers side by side, ours included. Plaque prices, ongoing fees, page limits, and the thirty-year arithmetic nobody puts on a product page. Checked and dated. Read more...
What Is a Memorial QR Code? A Plain Explanation
What a memorial QR code is, what happens when you scan one, what it costs, and who they suit. Written for people who have never seen one. Read more...
QR or NFC for a Memorial? Which One Actually Lasts
NFC tags feel more modern and fail more quietly. A practical comparison for memorials, including the one case where NFC is clearly better. Read more...
How Memorial QR Codes Work, and What Happens If the Company Closes
Static versus dynamic codes, why the difference decides whether a memorial survives, and an honest answer to the question every family should ask. Read more...
Building a Digital Memorial Page: What To Include
What to put on a memorial page, what to leave off, the identity-fraud risk nobody mentions, and how to start when you cannot face starting. Read more...
Marking a First Death Anniversary: Ideas That Actually Help
Why the run-up is often worse than the day, ways to mark it that people find genuinely helpful, and what to do for someone else's anniversary. Read more...
Memorial Bench Ideas: Plaques, Permissions and Costs in the UK
How council bench schemes really work, what siting fees cost, which materials survive, and what to put on the plaque. Read more...
What To Write on a Memorial Plaque: Wording Ideas and Examples
Openings, closings, short epitaphs and quotations that work, plus the practical limits on letter count and the mistakes that cannot be undone. Read more...
Churchyard Memorial Regulations: What You Are Actually Allowed
Why a Church of England churchyard is not a cemetery, what the diocesan regulations typically permit, and what a faculty is. Read more...
What To Do When Someone Dies: The First Two Weeks in the UK
A plain, ordered checklist of the legal and practical steps in the first fortnight after a death in the UK, and the ones that can safely wait. Read more...
Can You Put a QR Code on a Headstone? UK Cemetery Rules Explained
Who actually decides, why the grave deed matters more than the council, and how to get a QR plaque approved on a memorial in a UK cemetery. Read more...
How Much Does a QR Code Memorial Cost in the UK?
Plaque prices, the subscription fees suppliers do not advertise, fitting and permit charges, and what the whole thing really costs over twenty years. Read more...
Do QR Memorial Plaques Survive British Weather? Materials, Marking and Lifespan
Frost, UV, salt air and lichen are what actually kill outdoor QR codes. Here is which materials survive a British graveyard and which do not. Read more...
Memorial QR Code Plaques: A Complete UK Buyer's Guide
What a memorial QR plaque is, where you are allowed to fit one in the UK, what it should cost, and the questions worth asking any supplier before you pay. Read more...