Memorial Experiences & Receptions
When you lose someone you love, honoring their memory is vitally important—both at the time of loss, and for generations to come.
At Lakewood, we help you create meaningful tributes to grieve the loss and extend the memory and connection. Beyond permanent memorials like monuments or markers, we specialize in memorial experiences—ranging from celebrations of life to traditional services, both for intimate family ceremonies or larger remembrance gatherings. Whether you seek quiet reflection, reverent rituals or coming together with others, there’s something for you at Lakewood.
On this page: Funeral and Memorial Services | Receptions and Gatherings | Witness a Cremation | Unique Experiences
Funeral and Memorial Services
Lakewood offers a variety of spaces to hold celebration of life services and ceremonies. Indoors or outdoors, these stunning spaces provide beauty and tranquility.
Often, an officiant or family member will make a short statement, and a eulogy may be offered. Family and loved ones may participate, providing a moment of meaningful closure. Music, along with reverent moments of silence, are often part of a service or ceremony.
These gatherings may be scheduled soon after a death or at a later time.
Chapel
The Memorial Chapel, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is the centerpiece of the cemetery and a priceless architectural treasure—one of the most perfect examples of Byzantine mosaic art in the United States. The chapel has beautiful acoustics and a Skinner pipe organ, along with a piano.
Costs:
Chapel services held on the same day as an interment cost $995 for a weekday rental.
Chapel services without an interment cost $1995 for a weekday rental.
There is an additional $500 fee for Saturday services.
If no funeral director is present, there is a $395 additional fee for a required Service Coordinator.
Our knowledgeable Family Services team can help you understand all your options.
Waterside
Our new Waterside Pier and Platform on our private lake, offer a beautiful, tranquil spot for family and friends to say goodbye to a loved one whose remains have been cremated. A table, tent and chairs for guests can be provided.
Costs: The cost of the ceremony, including the scattering, is $1,495 on weekdays and $1,995 on Saturdays.
The ceremony area works well for groups of up to about 25 people. The Waterside Memorial Pier comfortably holds 10 to 12 people at a time.
Our knowledgeable Family Services team can help you understand all your options.
Graveside
Lakewood’s serene landscape is a beautiful backdrop for graveside services. At the area surrounding the gravesite, Lakewood provides everything you need to hold your gathering with family and friends to say goodbye to a loved one prior to burial.
Your service or gathering may include witnessing the lowering of the casket or cremains into the earth or scattering ashes directly into a grave or in a grave site. A table, tent and chairs for guests can be provided.
Costs:
Interment fees and urn vaults required for burials:
$2,195 for a weekday burial or crypt entombment.
$3,195 for a weekend burial or crypt entombment.
$995 for a weekday scattering.
$1,495 for a weekend scattering.
Additionally, families may choose to add a tent – $220.
Our knowledgeable Family Services team can help you understand all your options.
Placement or Committal
You may choose to have a committal ceremony and witness putting an urn in a niche or in a cremorial. A table and chairs for guests can be provided.
Interment fees are required.
$995 for a weekday cremorial interment.
$1,495 for a weekend cremorial interment.
Additionally, families may choose to add a tent – $220.
Our knowledgeable Family Services team can help you understand all your options.
Receptions and Gatherings
Lakewood’s Garden Mausoleum is a masterpiece of contemporary architecture and an exquisite work of art, with abundant natural light that evokes a sense of spirituality, warmth and comfort.
Small Group
Gather with a small group of family and friends after a ceremony in our airy, garden-level reception space. Upon your arrival, you’ll find everything set up and waiting for your group of up to 30 guests, including light snacks and beverages, along with beautiful floral arrangements in your color palette choice. A Lakewood Service Coordinator will be on hand to assist you, freeing you to spend your time with your family and friends.
Large Gathering
Our welcoming Garden Mausoleum reception space works well for larger gatherings, groups of up to 90 people, seated at our round tables. Large group gatherings allow you to choose from an approved list of caterers and personally pick flowers and other touches.
Witness a cremation
A cremation witness offers an opportunity for connection in the final moments in the presence of a loved one. Families and loved ones can gather just outside the crematory in a quiet, tastefully appointed room, designed to emphasize tranquility. Those present will see the casket enter the cremation chamber, similar to seeing a casket being lowered.
Unique Gathering Spots and Experiences
Living Memory Tree
Our Living Memory Tree holds hundreds of messages of love and remembrance. Your group can gather at our beautiful Japanese Lilac Tree for a service where everyone has the opportunity to participate and memorialize a loved one.
Annual Lantern Lighting Celebration
Lakewood offers families the opportunity to decorate a lantern in memory of a loved one and set the candle-lit lantern afloat at dusk during our annual Lantern Lighting Celebration. The evening brings the community together in a collective acknowledgement of grief, while honoring life and memory.
Schedule an introductory meeting at the Welcome Center.
Interested in learning more about memorial experiences at Lakewood? Schedule a meeting with a Lakewood Family Services team member in our beautiful new Welcome Center to go over all of the creative ways you can memorialize yourself or a loved one.
Send us an email or call us at 612-822-2171.