If someone asks you to take photos at their family funeral, & younsay yes, please do it

[peacebird]

I asked three family friends to please takephotos at moms service. They said that they would. Butg here it is almost two months later and I have no photo of moms urn and the flower wreath I designed to surround it.
I wish I did....

[babylonsister]

1. I'm so sorry you lost your mom, peacebird.

I hope you get some pix.

[peacebird]

2. Thank you babylonsister, we were lucky because when she got sick we were all able to get home

[Chan790]

3. I wish you'd said something earlier, we found a novel solution to this.

It cost us a bit but what we did was hand out disposable cameras, told people if they wanted to see all the pictures to write their email on the cameras, then we collected them as people were leaving the gravesite. Most everybody was coming to the post-burial picnic so I got some of them there.

Next day, I copied down the emails and took the pictures to CVS. Because of what it was and because we do this in my family for everything (weddings, funerals, graduations, baptisms) so I'm a repeat customer, they cut me a deal. Development on 40 dispo cameras isn't cheap.

When I got the pics back...all ~850 of them, I curated them together into a picture slideshow, posted it on the web and emailed the link. I have a well-documented photo history of everything in the past 4 years in my family.

[peacebird]

4. Oh.. What a lovely way to do this!