Marking a loved one’s grave is important. It gives you a way to memorialize your loved one and makes it easier for others to find the grave. Finding the right headstone can be difficult because you want it to be perfect. When you are searching for a double headstone for a couple, it can be even harder. With some helpful ideas, you can design the perfect double marker.

Before You Start

Before you get started on your design, make sure that you check the rules at the cemetery you are using. Cemeteries may limit the height that the stone can be, as well as the width. Different parts of the cemetery may have different rules as well. For example, parts of the cemetery may only allow flat markers. So check the rules before you start.

Think About Individuality

While the couple is a unit, each person is still an individual. You want to consider each person when you are designing the gravestone. For example, you may want to have a double heart marker with each person’s name on one of the hearts. That shows that they are a couple, but to honor the individual person, you might want to have a favorite quote for each person placed on their heart. Or you may want to have a favorite flower engraved for a gardener or a favorite car for a car person. You are showing they are together, but that each was an individual with their own likes and dislikes.

Include Shared Hobbies

If the couple had a shared hobby, you can also use those hobbies to get an idea of what their stone could look like. If the people liked to play tabletop role-playing games, you could have a dice-themed marker, since dice of varying sizes are instrumental in a TTRPG. The place where you get the marker can create a marker that is dice-shaped or engrave a twenty-sided die into stone along with a quote from the game.

Add Portraits

Modern carving techniques make it possible to engrave flattering pictures on a gravestone. With laser-assisted engraving, it is possible to get a lot of detail into the picture. You can have a picture of the couple, or even pictures of family members engraved on the stone. If the couple were proud grandparents, instead of having a picture of the couple, you could have a picture of their grandchildren on the stone, or have the names of their grandchildren on the stone, since new names can be added as necessary.

Gravestones are a way that you can memorialize your loved ones. The markers can give you a tangible way to show others just a little bit about your loved ones. Designing grave markers lets you show who your loved ones were, but it can be difficult to come up with a good idea, especially if you are designing a stone for a couple. You want to find something that will work for both people without being generic.

Published By: Aize Perez