Business Holiday Cards · Funeral Homes & Senior Living
Funeral homes, cremation providers, senior living communities, hospice. The relationship is formed on the worst week of somebody's life, and it is remembered for decades.
Good-tier pricing, with envelopes and imprinting included. Early-order discounts come off on top of these prices — 20% by November 16, 10% by December 11. These are the everyday prices — this season’s early-order discounts have closed. Better and Best designs cost more — see all three tiers and price your order.
Families can tell you thirty years later who returned the call at eleven at night and who made the hard week easier. That memory is the whole business, and it is why a funeral home's mail should never look like marketing. A card in November with your name on it and nothing else asked for is the only piece of mail all year that matches how families already feel about you.
The first holiday season after a death is the hardest one. A bright, cheerful Christmas card into that house lands badly, and everyone in this profession knows it. Send the most recent families something quiet — a Thanksgiving card in early November, or a plain seasonal design with a short line of remembrance. Our Peace on Earth, Dove and Sympathy families exist for exactly this, and restraint is the whole design brief.
The families you served, and the network that sends you families — clergy, hospice nurses, hospital social workers, estate attorneys, physicians, senior living directors, florists, monument dealers, the cemetery. The family card carries no offer of any kind. The professional card can be warmer and more ordinary, because it is going to a desk, not to a kitchen table. One order, two imprints, and we'll keep both on file for next year.
When to send
The first holiday after a loss is the hardest one, and it arrives whether anybody acknowledges it or not. A card that reaches a family in the first week of December, before the season closes in, is the one that gets remembered for years. Order early enough that you are not rushing this — of everything in the catalog, this is the mailing to get right rather than get done. The early-order discount takes 20% off the card price if you order by November 16, then 10% by December 11.This season’s early-order discounts have closed — the prices you see are the everyday prices.
Three sympathy designs and three quiet seasonal ones. Two lists, one order, and we keep both imprints on file. Prices shown are per card with envelopes at 100 — they come down at every quantity break.
Three designs, picked by a person
Tell us who you’re sending to and roughly how many. We’ve been publishing cards since 2003 — we’ll come back with three that actually fit, and you take it from there. No obligation, and we don’t hand your address to anybody.
What to write inside
This is the hardest card on this page to get right, and the one that matters most. Restraint is not a style choice here.
“Thinking of you and your family this season, with our continued sympathy.”
For families served this year. No “happy,” no “merry,” no celebration language of any kind.
“The holidays can be difficult. We are thinking of you, and we are here.”
Names the thing plainly. Families in a first year of grief say this is the one that helps.
“With gratitude for the trust you placed in us, and our thoughts for you and your family.”
Slightly more formal, for families further out.
“With appreciation for your partnership this year, and our best wishes for the season ahead.”
For clergy, hospices, physicians and the professional referral network — a different list and a different tone entirely.
Up to four lines on the card and four on the envelope, in a coordinated ink color and any of about a hundred font styles. Imprinting is free, always — it is not a seasonal promotion.
Getting it right
Families you served and professional referral sources cannot receive the same card. A grieving family does not want your holiday greeting, and your hospice partner does not need your condolence.
No bright reds, no celebration, no “joy.” Quiet designs, quiet color, quiet words. We will steer you if you want the help.
The funeral home name on its own reads institutional. The director the family actually sat with should sign it.
The categories funeral homes order from most. Prices are per card with envelopes at 1,000.
Tell us who you're sending to and roughly how many. We've been doing this since 2003 — we'll point you at the three or four designs that actually fit, and you can take it from there.
