Funerals With Care, Compassion And Dignity
The Sonja Smith Elite Funeral Group was founded by Sonja Smith herself. They have been providing funeral services since 2006. Sonja Smith has been in the funeral industry since 1998. She identified a need for specialist niche funeral services that offer bereaved families a unique and personalized one-stop service. Sonja Smith Elite Funeral Group is a leading funeral service in Bryanston, Johannesburg (Gauteng).
After a loved one passes away, there are a multitude of arrangements to be made. This is also a very emotional time and dealing with the logistics of funeral arrangements is not necessarily how you want to spend this period of mourning. It can be a very difficult task. Sonja Smith Elite Funeral Group Bryanston supports you by taking care of all the practical arrangements to ensure a final farewell with care, compassion and dignity.
Sonja Smith Elite Funeral Group Bryanston offers a high level of dedicated funeral care, advising you of all your options and choices and overseeing that the funeral arrangements are made in accordance with your wishes, and those of the Deceased.
We will assist you in the completion of all documentation and make the necessary arrangements with the church, chapel, other venue of choice, cemetery or crematorium on your behalf.
We will provide confirmation of all the funeral arrangements, together with a detailed estimate of the costs.
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“My team and I will ensure that whenever possible, your wishes are met, and we may have very useful suggestions that you may not have considered.
We have experience in arranging funerals across all religions and cultures.”
The choice between burying or cremating your deceased loved one is often a very personal one. Decisions may be influenced by family, tradition, religion or the wishes of the person who has died. If you do decide on a burial, questions like coffin or casket, casket price, will it be an open or closed casket service, need to be asked. At Sonja Smith Elite Funeral Group Bryanston, we will be there to support you through all the options and choices. Caskets or coffins, we’ll help you select the right one. We’ll make sure you know the casket price or any personal financial implications. And we will ensure it is a burial executed with respect and compassion.
In South Africa, a burial is likely to be in a local authority/private cemetery. Subject to local regulations and availability, one of the many choices you have is between using a new or existing grave that belongs to your family.
The choice between burying or cremating your deceased loved one is often a very personal one. Decisions may be influenced by family, tradition, religion or the wishes of the person who has died.
If you decide on cremation, Sonja Smith Elite Funeral Group Bryanston can help you through all the options and decisions available to you. We ensure that you receive the best cremation services, and that you are aware of any cremation cost that might be applicable. We provide the full range of cremation services that you would need to honour your deceased loved ones and respectfully cremate their mortal remains. You can choose to have a full cremation service or a memorial service (with or without the ashes present).
Your loved one’s funeral should be as unique as he or she was in life. Sonja Smith Elite Funeral Group Bryanston has assisted families with evening funerals, personalised funerals, living funerals, natural burials or green burials and virtual funerals. Whether you wish to go the route of living funerals where you get to hear your own eulogies and say goodbye to people in person, or natural burials are how you wish to respect the environment on your loved one’s behalf, we can help you arrange it.
Sonja Smith Elite Funeral Group Bryanston has set a new ‘trend’ in the funeral profession in South Africa where people now specifically request an evening funeral for themselves or their loved ones. Our first evening funeral was done with candles and choir music, commencing at 19:00 in the evening in a church where the lights were dimmed to create an ambience that exceeded all expectations.
Watching the reactions of the family & friends after the memorial service, made Sonja realize that there is something very, very special about Evening Funerals.
It has since become more popular with many clients specifically requesting such a service.
Personalising a final tribute can be very helpful in trying to make sense of what we cannot control. It could be something small such as having the Deceased’s favourite song played at the funeral, or it could be a theme that runs throughout the whole funeral which relates to the Deceased’s hobbies, for example collecting butterflies.
There are also some essential choices you will need to make such as selecting a coffin or casket, dressing the deceased, and the outlay of the funeral programme. Personalising the funeral provides an opportunity to create a unique tribute to the person who has died and we will help you through the entire experience.
Personalisation is the key to creating a meaningful and memorable Celebration of Life service!
Sonja Smith Elite Funeral Group introduced Green Funerals to the South African Funeral Industry. It provides the deceased with one last way in which they and their families can respect the environment. Green burials are also called natural burials and minimise the negative environmental effects that a burial can have.
To assist in a green burial, we offer Natural Woven Products as part of our range of coffins.
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