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Funeral order of service examples you can print
Six complete orders of service, each written out in full: a traditional funeral, a Catholic Mass, a celebration of life, a graveside service, a service with military honors and a homegoing celebration. Copy the one that fits, change the names, and it prints in the program without retyping.
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- Six orders, written out in full. Every part named, in sequence, in the wording congregations expect — with the hymns and readings families most often choose beside each one.
- In the editor, not just on the page. Each example is in the order-of-service library inside the editor: choose it and the whole sequence drops into the program, ready to edit line by line.
- It fits, whatever you add. The order of service sits on the inside-left page and shrinks gently as it grows, so a service with fourteen items still prints inside the margins.
A finished program, not a blank template
Most "funeral templates" are a layout you still have to design, on a day you have no time for it. This is different: type the details once, and every piece is made for you — matching, print-ready, checked.
A template in a design app · an evening
You do the designing
- Pick one of hundreds that look alike, then type the same name into six boxes.
- Resize the photo yourself and hope it prints sharp.
- Work out which page goes where when the sheet is folded.
- Export, guess at bleed and margins, print, find the back is upside down.
- Start again for the prayer card, the bookmark, the sign — none of them match.
- Nobody to ask when it goes wrong at the copy shop.
Here · about ten minutes
You enter the details; we make every piece
- Name, dates, order of service, obituary, a photo — once. Every page appears as you type.
- The photo is placed, framed and checked for print quality; you are told if it is too small.
- Pages are already in printing order, with bleed and crop marks for the shop and exact size for home.
- What you see on screen is the PDF, to a third of a millimetre — proven on every build.
- 58 designs, each making the program, cards, bookmark, sign, guest book and slideshow to match.
- Free corrections after you pay, and a person who answers when a print goes wrong.
$29 for the program, $59 for the complete set — one payment, files in minutes, nothing shipped. Choose a design and start
Any design prints any order
The order of service is text: every one of these designs sets it the same way, so choose by feel.
Where the order of service goes
The inside-left page of the folded program, the middle panel of a trifold, or its own page in an eight-page booklet.
Funeral Program
5.5 × 8.5 in (139.7 × 215.9 mm) · 4 pages
$29 · in the set $59
Funeral Program — 8 pages
5.5 × 8.5 in (139.7 × 215.9 mm) · 8 pages
$34
Funeral Program — Trifold
11 × 8.5 in (279.4 × 215.9 mm) · 2 pages
$29
Funeral Program — 12 pages
5.5 × 8.5 in (139.7 × 215.9 mm) · 12 pages
$39
Memorial Prayer Card
2.5 × 4.25 in (63.5 × 108 mm) · 2 pages
$19 · in the set $59
Memorial Bookmark
2 × 7 in (50.8 × 177.8 mm) · 2 pages
$19 · in the set $59
Welcome Sign
8.5 × 11 in (215.9 × 279.4 mm) · 1 side
$14
The six examples
A traditional funeral (about 45 minutes): prelude, processional, welcome and opening prayer, hymn, scripture reading, remembrances, eulogy, hymn, message, prayers, benediction, recessional. A Catholic Mass (about an hour): the introductory rites, the Liturgy of the Word, the Liturgy of the Eucharist, the final commendation and the committal — set out in full on the Catholic order of service page. A celebration of life (30 to 60 minutes): gathering, welcome, a reading or poem, remembrances, music or a slideshow, closing words, and a shared act — a toast, a silence, everyone plants a bulb.
A graveside service (15 to 30 minutes): gathering at the grave, opening words, scripture, a brief remembrance, the prayer of committal, the lowering or the placing of earth and flowers, a closing blessing. A service with military honors: any of the above, with the arrival of the casket, presentation of the colors, the rifle volley, Taps, and the folding and presentation of the flag listed under the committal. A homegoing celebration (an hour or more): processional, musical prelude, opening hymn, scripture, prayer of comfort, a solo, reflections, the reading of the obituary, a selection, the eulogy, recessional and repast.
How to write each line
One item per line, the item first, then a dash and who: "Reading — Psalm 23, read by Karen Jensen". Hymns take the title, not the first line. Where a piece of music is played rather than sung, say so: "Musical Interlude — Ave Maria, played by the organist". Where a part is optional and may be dropped on the day, leave it out of the program rather than printing something that does not happen.
Confirm every reader, musician and speaker by phone the day before. A name printed for someone who does not appear is the detail families remember, and it is the one thing a program cannot fix on the day.
Fitting a long order onto the page
Fourteen or fifteen items is common, and it fits: the type shrinks a little, within limits set so the page stays readable, and the preview shows exactly what will print. Where a service genuinely needs more room — a Mass with the full musical setting, a homegoing with a dozen reflections — the eight-page booklet gives the order a page of its own.
The full guide, with what each part means and how long each kind of service runs, is order of service for a funeral.
Put the order of service in a program
Choose an example, change the names, and print it — the design, the cards and the sign all follow from the same details.
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