I was made responsible for the task of designing the Order of Service booklet for my Pop’s service. I accepted as I didn’t want to see a tacky production distributed to my family and and their friends. Less really is more!

We had an elderly gentleman who thinks comic sans is an appropriate font for a funeral program originally volunteer to design it. I saw samples of his work containing clip art graphics and poorly resized images and I had to step in. Yes, I have standards.

Unfortunately, I am neither a designer or a printer and time is not on my side. What I have produced though seems appropriate enough. I tried for something classic and simple. That’s all you need, some clean lines and a nice font. Very underrated.

I do feel anxiety over this whole event. How do you ever do justice to someone’s life in a booklet containing just a few pages? It is all very hard to handle right now.