CUSTOMIZE A FUNERAL PLAQUE

CUSTOMIZE A MEMORIAL PLAQUE for tombstone.

personalize a plaque to honour the memory of a loved one. Various elements can be taken into account and the price varies according to many criteria. Personalizing a memorial plaque or tombstone or cemetery plaque is a very good idea to pay tribute to the deceased. To do this, you must draw your inspiration from the elements to which it is attached. The creation and personalization is done online so that the plate can be reworked by a professional.

Personalizing a memorial plaque or tombstone or cemetery plaque is a very good idea to pay tribute to the deceased. To do this, you must draw your inspiration from the elements to which it is attached. The creation and personalization is done online so that the plate can be reworked by a professional.
Elements for inspiration

The first source of inspiration is the Internet.

 You can search and compare some models to get an image of what you want to create. For example, you can collect 2 or 3 models in order to obtain a new style. But it must correspond to the deceased so that it is indeed an honour for his memory. In this context, it is advisable to find inspiration on the elements that really matter to him/her. For example, using the image of a place of remembrance can be a better idea. Alternatively, you can also draw some tips based on his favorite activities. On the other hand, you will also insert texts. The latter must also be very significant. For example, you can note his favourite quote, the expression he uses most often. Or you can simply write your last tender words, your last thoughts, etc. to him. Note that these different cases concern a human being. A grave plate can also be made for animals. There, you can simply choose a photo with his or her date of birth or arrival at home with his or her date of death.

How and at what price can I personalize a funeral plaque?

Many online sites now offer the possibility to personalize a funeral plaque. Precisely, you are invited to design your own style. You have at your disposal different templates that you can use. In this frame, you have the possibility of inserting images, drawings that could distinguish the cemetery plaque. And of course, you can insert texts whose length depends on the plate shape you have chosen. Once you validate your template, it is sent directly to processing. That is to say, the artist will reproduce your style on granite or glass according to your order. It is also possible to engrave a portrait on the plate. The price varies according to the material, form and elements (images, texts, drawings) that appear on the plaque. But in general, you can have a granite plate from 115 euros and a glass plate from 180 euros. On the other hand, there are also porcelain plates from 74 euros and sticker plates from 95 euros.

FUNERAL PLAQUE FOR A FINAL TRIBUTE

Intended mainly to bring an original decoration for a monument in memory of a deceased, the granite memorial plaques also carry a message to pay a final tribute to the deceased. Usually the work of a qualified marble maker, these slabs can be made of marble, stone, etc., or any material unalterable over time. To honour the memory of your deceased loved ones, choose individualized and timeless plaques!

Pay tribute to the dead

To offer a final, vibrant tribute to the memory of a deceased person, consider carefully arranging and arranging the place where he or she is resting in order to show him or her all the affection that is bestowed on him or her. Whether it's a funeral monument or a columbarium, bring a touch of originality to all your loved ones who have left this life. Thus, a cheap funeral plaque can be personalised as desired without being dull or sad.

It can thus give courage to the living and thus remove in their hearts all feelings of bitterness (regrets, remorse) to the thought of the person who has left them. A funerary plaque can also symbolize the hope of a meeting in another much better life and is not forced to cause sadness or melancholy.

Weather-resistant plates

All funeral plaques are made of materials that can withstand the wear and tear of time and weather that can occur. Whether it is the extreme cold, sunburn, hail, windstorms..., they must always be visible and clean, even with little maintenance. The materials selected for a low-cost funerary plaque are white marble, granite, Plexiglas or glass, all of which are noble materials.

In almost all funeral agencies, families can find many different types of funeral plaques or, if they wish, order a custom-made model by choosing the size, colour, shape or material used. In this case, the rate applied depends on the complexity of the model and will be delivered in a free estimate, but a common ground is always possible.

What message to leave?

Messages usually affixed to a funeral plaque consist mainly of sweet little words such as "To Daddy dear","To my beloved son", etc., or messages personalized according to the missing persons. In this case, they may include various motifs such as flowers, hearts, landscapes or even the photograph of the deceased.

Personalized funerary plaque

A family is made up of its living, but also of its disappeared, they leave unforgettable memories and parts of life in the heart. They are our origins, our stories, which is why many families prefer to erect a symbol to perpetuate the image of the disappeared in memory. The easiest way to do this is to choose a customizable funeral stele.

Why a funerary monument?

Simply to give the living an intimate place to grieve first, and to pay final homage to our deceased loved ones second. Even if the intention is not to worship the dead, it is essential to remember a loved one. The funerary plaque is particularly addressed to the living and if it is necessary to take into account all those who will visit and collect on the monument, it is better to personalize it as much as possible.

And in any case, the style, style, model and personalized decorations depend on the budget and cost of the different funeral agencies. It is best to ask for a free quote from the various service providers or consult an online price comparison.

A final wish

In most cases the family, according to the last wishes of a deceased person, proceeds with the construction of a stele, a funerary monument or any other possible name. The choice was therefore fixed from the very beginning of its conception, to make it stand out from the other buildings bordering the cemetery.

After the funerals, then, families work together to build the funeral edifice to show the public the personality of the deceased and at the same time to show their love for him. A stele will always remain a stele, only the funerary plaque will be personalized. Several models are available from funeral agencies or specialized sites.

Very original or unique memorial plaque and grave plaque

As the cemetery contains many memorials, before designing a custom stele it is important to have a clear idea of its general shape. Whether the family has an idea or not, a professional's benefit is always helpful. He will know better than anyone else how to match the different custom models envisaged according to the budget allocated to construction.

The funerary plaque and its personalization is the responsibility of the families of the disappeared, but the realization of the monument will be reserved for service providers, once an agreement has been reached.

Memorial plaque, grave and tombstone plaques

Choose a grave plaque for cemetery.

A tomb plaque is one of the objects that allows you to pay tribute to the deceased. It is therefore necessary to choose the right one. That is to say, it must be well represented. In order to help you make your choice, we have collected some criteria for you to take into account.

Create or have created?

In order to personalize a funeral plaque, you can create the model you want. Many online platforms now offer you the opportunity to do it yourself. In this context, several funeral motives will be proposed to you. By selecting one of them, you can arrange it as you wish. Then you can also insert photos or drawings to be engraved on the plate. The latter will then be reworked by an artist engraver. In addition, you can also choose a porcelain photo with many possible variations. In this way, you will obtain a cheap and well personalised memorial plaque in a very simple way.

Compare well to have a cheap funeral plaque

Many service providers offer the construction of a cemetery plaque. And in this context, the offers are also varied. Of course, the prices will not be the same for each model, for the different materials and sizes, but each director also offers very different price ranges. So, you should think about taking a little walk to compare if you want to have a cheap funeral plaque. On the other hand, the comparison should not remain at the price level. It would be necessary to be more precise, that is, the price of a material, a shape, the quality of engraving, and many other services. Do not hesitate to check each example, templates that the sites offer you.

Mounting version

This criterion must be taken into account and defined according to your expectations, the grave and your funeral plaque model. There are no specific rules. We just need to determine which model best represents the deceased. The ideal would be to refer you to his requests if he had. Otherwise, it is necessary to know the different versions of fixing that could exist. On this subject, there is the fixing on 2 metal feet which will allow to place the grave plate with great stability.  Alternatively, you can also choose a pierced plate if you want to attach it to a stele or the wall of a church. On the other hand, the plate can also be glued onto polished granite. But it can also be non-perforated and glue-free. These are models to be laid on the ground in a park cemetery or on a cellar-urne.

An adhesive commemorative plaque to stick on a headstone.

Engraving an epitaph on a plaque to stick in a memorial park, it exists.

https://www.plaque-funeraire.fr/en/custom-memorial-plaque/granite/10x30-Hearts-1436263112060.php

In some cemeteries, there is not a lot of space for the tomb. In fact when we look at an American cemetery, there is only the headstone. Laying a memorial plaque is quiet complicated, because there is no tomb.

The question is, how can I pay homage without a memorial plaque ? 

The answer Renaud Gravure has found is an adhesive granite plaque. Apparently, there is an adhesive at the back, and as soon as you receive the plaque, you can put the plaque on the headstone. 

If you want just to engrave the epitaph, it is possible. We have seen on their website that you can engrave the message you want, it means an epitaph too. 

A memorial plaque with an epitaph. 

In other situations, an adhesive granite memorial plaque can be useful. If the deceased wanted to be incinerated, thus there is no tomb. So you may have to stick a plaque on a kind of wall. Then this type of commemorative plaque is an advantage. 

There is a lot of choice on their website, here is their link : https://www.plaque-funeraire.fr/en/adhesive-memorial-plaques/

An unveiling ceremony plaque.

A plaque for an unveiling ceremony made in France !!

On this website it is possible to create a unveiling plaque. They engrave it, according to your instructions.

There are several types of stone.

You can select a slate plaque, for a house for instance. Or marble, granite or even glass. On the website there are all the informations you need. In France, it's actually pretty common to see slate for a house number or an unveiling ceremony plaque. Moreover, this is the company who designed the Cartier's plaque in the world. 

It is a French website, but still easy to conceive. French work, especially in art as is the art workshop Renaud Gravure provides excellent product. Whatever the stone you will choose, it will be engraved. Renaud Gravure is an art workshop of engravers. 

An artistic commemorative plaque.

Creating your personal plaque, a unique masterpiece, an artistic commemorative plaque ! 

Here is an excellent website, where you can create a personalised grave plaque. As it is your own creation, it is different from the common plaques. Above all, it is unique. Isn't it what we want, offering a unique commemorative glass plaque for a unique person ?

According to them, you are able to customise a plaque already available and drawn or you can make your own. There is a lot of patterns, and their software is easy to use, very simple. Actually, it is true. 

As you might consider, the result is impressive. 

Opinions :

When you are ordering on-line, you sometimes doubt about the result, the quality. So you search for any opinions and Google Reviews shows good results. When customers express themselves about this kind of product, we can trust in them.

Engraving of personal photo on memorial.

Personal photo engraved on memorial plaques. 

We often find commercial websites that do not let us download our photo on the memorial plaque. There is one that suggests you the possibility to add your own photo on the plaque. 

Actually, in the Renaud Gravure's online software you can download a drawing, a photo, a portrait, everything that is not available on the catalogue. 

Plus, the engraver will draw himself the photo, and will send you a preview you have to agree before he launches the engraving process. 

 As we can notice, the background has disappeared and the result remains great. This is thanks to the engraver's work on the photo. Moreover, it can be a photo of a couple, it doesn't matter, the price is the same. 

 Finally, portraits can be engraved on a real glass plaques or on granite plaques, according to what you prefer. 

Please find some models here : https://www.plaque-funeraire.fr/en/memorial-plaque-photo/

How to know a plaque is of high quality ?

How can I know the memorial plaque I am about to order is really top-of-the-range ?

Renaud Gravure has been an art workshop led by a professionnal engraver, Jocelyn Renaud, since 1997.

Other companies use laser, painting, serigraphy to create their funeral plaques. This will not last. However, engraving makes the pattern deeper in the stone, that is to say it will last. An authentic engraving is guaranteed more than 50 years.

Laser sounds also a good option. Yes, it will be precise and thin, as can be an engraving, but the laser burns the surface too superficially to be able to last as an engraving.

To know the difference, you can touch. A real engraving has relieves, a proof of sustainability, high quality and hand made.

Plus, if you take a look at the suggested products of the company you are looking at, there is not a lot of possibility, or badly done. While if you order at Renaud Gravure's, you can observe all the ordered plaques, the great result. Moreover, if you want to add your own photo, the engraver will work on it as you wish to make the best result possible.

Finally, we only use high quality prime material. In other word we use deep black granite from India, the best granite for it's darkness and sustainability. We also use real glass, not an acrylic glass. Real glass can resist to outdoors agressions. 

More informations to compare the high quality of memorial plaques. 

Commemorative plaque with gilt.

Gilt with 24 carat gold leaf on a memorial plaque for grave. 

Gilding is technique used in art, that consists in applying gold leaf directly on the product. The engraver artist Jocelyn Renaud uses this technique to his gilt. 

In order to create a colour contrast on plaques, the gilt may be a solution. On a deep black granite plaque, a touch of gold makes it shiny and colourful. At Renaud Gravure's, we suggest you some golden patterns, or text that are stainless. 

24 carat gold leaves : 

Gilded plaque for a French order 

("To our beloved father, his children")

It is the purest gold that exists, there is not copper, brass or metals. It means that it is not oxidizable, and the colour will remain the same forever. 

First we fix a resine especially chosen to resist outdoors, then we set down the leaves. The French company knows how important it is to have a sustainable product, this is why it only uses 24 carat gold leaf. 

Gilt on glass memorial plaques and granite grave plaques: 

The pattern, or the text, which has to be gilded, is engraved in the mass, as are all Renaud Gravure's products. Glass and granite plaques can be gilded. Some patterns are available in the catalogue in the software on-line. 

On both materials the result is sustainable, and possible. It creates a touch of colour, of contrast. It will differenciate your gilded memorial plaque from the others. 

https://www.plaque-funeraire.fr/en/memorial-plaques/gilding/

Original memorials.

A block of glass, what an original memorial plaque. 

This is one of the originality given by Renaud Gravure's funeral plaque. This is an engraved block of glass on an engraved granite plaque. 

You might choose this model if you want to put your memorial on the tomb in the memorial park. It has to be lay down on a flat surface. 

On the picture you can notice there is a portrait and a text. We engrave both. On the on-line software, you can send your own picture, decide its size. Then our engraver will work this image, suggest you a view close to the result, and after your agreement, engrave it. The granite plaque is also engravable, with the text you want. 

This is an example of a photo of a dog, available in the software's catalogue, on the block of glass. As you can observe, there is a short text written down the granite base. You can customize this original memorial plaque by clicking on this link. 

An angel to pay homage

An angel on a commemmorative plaque to pay homage. 

For a late relative, a child or a person we used to call "my angel", we want this connection to appear on a memorial. 

In Renaud Gravure's website, we let you create a plaque with an engraved angel. 

If you decide to customize this plaque, feel free ! You can put the name you want, remove or add text. 

Or you can make your own. In the software, there is a catalogue of patterns to add, and there is a section with different angels. You can choose one of them, change the angle, the size, the place. 

This software, easy to use, make you able to design the plaque you want. If there is a special angel, you can also add it. 

Remember, at Renaud Gravure, everything is engraved, the text and the motive. Thus, your plaque will last with high quality.

Small memorial plaque

Small engraved memorial plaque with stars. 

Sometimes paying our late relative homage is complicated, and hard. Renaud Gravure has decided to suggest you an adhesive memorial plaque for the tomb.

It is a deep black granite plaque for grave. We engrave the pattern of stars in the sky, the text and the name too. Everything is engraved. In fact, engraving a plaque is the solution to make a memorial plaque last. 

If you go on the following link, you can take a look at the characteristics, and even customize this plaque. Renaud Gravure suggests this model, but you can personalize it, by customizing the name, changing the size of the text, or the size of the stars. You are also able to add your own motive. 

This kind of plaque has to be put on a smooth, clean and dry support, such as granite, marble or glass. 

Please visit our website : Memorial plaques

Photo porcelain for memorial plaque.

An original porcelain photo for a tomb or a tombstone.

When we visit someone's grave, the one of a friend or a relative, it's a terrible moment in a memorial park where everything is sad. 

Here is an alternative, a photo porcelain. You can put the late person's portrait on the tombstone, to make the tombstone original, but at least still beautiful. 

You can change the background, choose the shape, and the colour. 

The photoporcelain is made to last, actually it is made according to traditionnal manufacture, with ceramic pigment and a firing at 900°, in order to last. 

This manufacture will last by the heat and the cold, in order to resist all the year long. 

Examples of photoporcelains ordered on Renaud Gravure's french page. 

You can buy a porcelain photo alone or with a memorial grave, as you wish. It will make your gravestone more original. Plus, on the website, you will be able to personalize the one you want.

Square photo porcelain with white border, grey background on a engraved granite plaque.

You can personalize your photo porcelain, with the deceased's portrait. Be sure, it will last thanks to a manufacture done to resist to any weather. 

A great photo porcelain, beautiful and original to remember and pay homage to our late friend.

Blog about engraved memorial plaque

Our activity, artistic memorial plaque. 

Renaud Gravure is a familial company located in France. It sells memorial plaque, even though it sounds sad, the products are very artistic thanks to the engraver's skills. 

Jocelyn Renaud is a professionnal engraver, thus he only proposes beautiful memorial plaques, especially of high quality to satisfy his clients. 

Please read our webpage, https://www.plaque-funeraire.fr/en/ , where you might find a lot of details and informations about what we do and how we do. 

We have chosen to engrave our products, so they can last in time as they are of high quality. What is a plaque of high quality ? It is a plaque made of granite from India, especially chosen for its deep black colour, or in burglarproof cristal, so it can last in time. Moreover, it is properly engraved in the material, thus the texts or drawings will never change.