Funeral celebrant, Murwillumbah & Tweed Valley

A funeral or celebration of life in Murwillumbah and the Tweed Valley is $750, with the family meeting, the eulogy, liaison with your funeral director and the PA included. A graveside or ashes committal on its own is $450. There is no travel charge in the shire, no weekend loading, and a service can usually be arranged within a few days.

What it costs in the Tweed Valley

What you get Mon–Thu Fri–Sun
Funeral or celebration of life A family meeting, the eulogy and full script, liaison with your funeral director, chapel or graveside, and a PA. $750 same
Graveside or ashes committal A 30-minute committal, written and led, for families holding the service separately or later. $450 same
Living celebration A 90-minute celebration held while the person is still here, planned with them, so the things people would have said are said to them. $750 same

Australian dollars, GST included. Travel within 30 km is included and $1 per kilometre round trip beyond it. Booking fee $250, which comes off the total. Witnesses supplied at $60 each. Council permits for beach and park ceremonies are passed through at cost.

The Tweed Valley is home, so nothing here carries a travel charge. There is no notice period, and no weekend loading.

Where in the Tweed Valley

Ceremonies on council beaches, reserves and parks need a permit. Fees run $124 to $320 depending on the shire and the site, and are passed through at cost rather than marked up.

Where services are held here

Most Tweed Valley services are in the chapels the local funeral directors use, at graveside, or at home. The halls at Uki, Tyalgum and Stokers Siding take a gathering of any size and are often the right answer for a farming family, where the connection is the district rather than a church. Gardens and paddocks work; a marquee and a PA solve the rest of it.

There is no travel charge anywhere in the shire and no weekend loading, so a Sunday service costs what a Tuesday one does. Where there is no funeral director — more common with celebrations of life held later, and with ashes committals — the run sheet and the sound are arranged directly.

Arranging one from a long way away

Families here are often scattered, and the person organising the service is frequently the one who moved to Brisbane or Melbourne twenty years ago. The family meeting works by phone or video where it has to, and it works better with three people on the call than one — a eulogy comes out of what people remember differently.

A service can usually be arranged within a few days of the first call, which is normally what the funeral director's chapel time allows anyway. Where relatives are flying in from overseas, a small committal in the week and a celebration of life a month or two later is an ordinary and entirely respectable way to do it.

Questions people ask

Is there a funeral celebrant in Murwillumbah?
Yes. A search for a funeral celebrant near Murwillumbah currently returns no map results at all and a page of directories, which is a gap rather than an absence of demand. Services are held at the chapels the local funeral directors use, at graveside, or at home.
How much does a funeral celebrant cost in the Tweed?
$750 for a full service and $450 for a committal, both including the family meeting and the writing. Across the Tweed and the Gold Coast the range is $550 to $770, and most local celebrants do not publish a figure at all, so families are usually ringing around to find out.

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Prices, inclusions and paperwork on this site are complete and current. Only the contact details are outstanding.