Design & Personalization

Creative ideas and inspiration for designing a meaningful, personalized memorial.

Find inspiration for monument inscriptions, epitaphs, and verses. Ideas for religious, military, personal, and poetic inscriptions.

A guide to popular monument symbols, religious emblems, military insignia, and decorative artwork for memorials.

How to design a companion or double monument that honors both partners. Tips for layout, inscriptions, and future-proofing the design.

How sandblast engraving and laser etching differ on a granite monument, and when families use one or both for the inscription and artwork.

The design process for a monument: cemetery rules, the form, the granite, and personalizing the inscription online before the stone is cut.

How to choose a photograph for a kiln-fired ceramic or porcelain portrait on a monument: clarity, crop, and what happens after you order.