Inviting people to a funeral can be a stressful and a difficult task. Calling friends and family members by phone is normally the best way to announce a death. However, sending an email to each of the deceased’s email contacts can help invite those who may not have been called. It may also help to inform those have changed their phone number.

If the deceased used their email for business purposes, by sending an a funeral invitations by email may reduce the number of ‘business’ phone calls both before and after the funeral.

 

Sending funeral invitations by email

 

*We recommend that invitations by phone, newspaper obituary etc should be made before email funeral invitations are sent out.

 

Subject line & message

 

It is important that the subject line in the email is filled in and relevant to the announcement you are making. You may for example want to use the following subject line:

The death of (insert full name) and an in invitation to (first name)’s funeral

Now write the message in the ‘body’ of the email. By writing the email before adding the list of recipients who will receive the email the likelihood of sending the email by mistake before it is ready is reduced.

 

Using ‘BCC’.

 

When sending funeral invitations to a large number of email contacts we recommend that you send the emails using ‘BCC’ instead of ‘TO’ or ‘CC’ (please see the image below for further reference)

 

By using ‘BCC’ each email recipient will be unable to view the other people who have also received the email.

We have added two email examples in the ‘BCC” field below along with some ideas for text you may want to include when inviting people to attend a funeral through email.