I don't want to be designing my son's headstone as his sister sleeps next to me! I want to be curled up next to BOTH my babies, not trying to decide on his epitaph. I don't want to be trying to work out if we can afford to have a photo of him on it, which quote I should have. How do you sum up someone so big and small in such few words? Do I put his middle name on it? Can I get away with a song lyric?
Yep, I'm going to start properly organising Ianto's headstone (or, if we can't afford that, plaque ) - I've found which company I want to do it, and hooray, they have an instant online quote thingie where I can design it fully, get a quote, change it, blah blah. So no being incredibly embarrassed when someone tells me how much it will be and my eyes bug out at how expensive it all is. And their products are fantastic, so different to anything I've ever seen before. Not that I tend to hang around cemeteries, but you get what I mean. They don't do the tired old boring type of headstone.
I dunno, I'm feeling crappy that I can't decide which quote/picture/wording I want on it, but I'm feeling good that I'm finally getting around to doing it. Spewing that the font I want isn't available on the type of headstone I want, though. It's so pretty...
It will work out. It's so crap doing it, but when you do find that quote or style, it will fit well and feel right to you and that will help your decision. I know its such a personal thing but if there is anything I can do to help let me know.
Hugs hun I remember doing Joshua's plaque a couple of years ago. I re wrote the words a hundred times, they were only giving me so many lines and I thought, how can I fit in everything I want to write? I finally came up with something short enough but something that had meaning to us. GL hun, you'll come up with the perfect one (eventually!).
I know it's nowhere near the same, but when my dad died I was 15, and somehow I got landed with the responsibility of doing his headstone. You'll find the words.
i like 6, but you could also word it as 'we said hello whilst saying good bye"????
i like the blue colour too...
if you cant decide but cant keep doing 'this' then i suggest you set a date to decide??? We did the for our wills so totally not the same but it was an emotional time and i just dont think we would have ever got there if we just didnt set a date.......
anyway who am i to talk about this stuff...... hugs!
Oh Teni I like the sentiment of #2 with the "beloved firstborn"
It's strange, but I was looking at some Dr Who / Torchwood merchandise, and there are buttons "I Ianto" and "Team Ianto (he has a Pterodactyl)" and was thinking should get a button for you.
ETA - They grey ones are what I was talking about. They're stainless steel with glass in the middle for colour. If you google "forever shining" you can see more for reference
Sent from my iPhone so forgive the speelung misstacks
Last edited by TeniBear; June 20th, 2011 at 05:32 PM.
This just sucks.
I don't want to be designing my son's headstone as his sister sleeps next to me! I want to be curled up next to BOTH my babies, not trying to decide on his epitaph. I don't want to be trying to work out if we can afford to have a photo of him on it, which quote I should have. How do you sum up someone so big and small in such few words? Do I put his middle name on it? Can I get away with a song lyric?
) - I've found which company I want to do it, and hooray, they have an instant online quote thingie where I can design it fully, get a quote, change it, blah blah. So no being incredibly embarrassed when someone tells me how much it will be and my eyes bug out at how expensive it all is. And their products are fantastic, so different to anything I've ever seen before. Not that I tend to hang around cemeteries, but you get what I mean. They don't do the tired old boring type of headstone.
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Teni. Some things just aren't right. Xx
Ianto" and "Team Ianto (he has a Pterodactyl)" and was thinking should get a button for you.
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