Butterfly Urns
This collection of butterfly urns is for the person who tended the milkweed and watched the monarchs emerge from their chrysalises every August. These cast aluminum pieces, available in full-size, sharing, and keepsake sizes, feature engraved butterfly artwork and are finished in various colors or hand-applied enamel with silver bands.
Each urn can be personalized with a two-tone engraving of a name and dates. This design honors the patience of the garden and the transformation made visible.
The butterfly represents the quiet patience required to watch a garden thrive. It begins with the host plants and the weeks of waiting for the miracle that happens in secret within the chrysalis. To see the wings finally open is to witness a slow, steady process that cannot be hurried.
This collection is for the one who understood that beauty requires tending. They knew the importance of the milkweed patch and the dedication it took to raise monarchs from egg to wing every August. Their hands knew the rhythm of the seasons and the quiet work of nurturing life.
In the garden, a butterfly is transformation made tangible. It is a symbol of a change from one form of life into another, serving as a hopeful shape for those who watch it move through the summer heat.
A family might choose this design because it reflects what their loved one held close. It speaks to the personal conviction they had regarding change and the beauty found in life's transitions, mirroring the shape they spent their summers tending.
The butterfly artwork is engraved directly into the cast aluminum. These pieces are available in a range of painted colors or through a hand-applied enamel process that includes hand-detailed silver bands. Every urn is finished with a threaded screw-top lid and a felt base.
Because every family's needs are unique, this collection offers full-size, sharing, and keepsake urns. This allows a family to choose one single piece or several to hold different parts of a life together.
To make the piece a permanent tribute, we can engrave the name and dates directly into the metal surface. This two-tone engraving ensures that the identity of the person is woven into the very material of the memorial.
Monarchs leaving a northern garden in September migrate up to 3,000 miles to overwintering sites in the mountains of Michoacan and the State of Mexico, northwest of Mexico City, where 12 roosting sites have been identified. No single butterfly makes the round trip. Instead, four generations are involved in the annual cycle, and the ones that return to the garden in spring have never seen it before.
This design serves as the garden your loved one kept, and the shape you can trust to come back.
Source: Wikipedia, Monarch butterfly migration
If the person you remember was the one who found beauty in the slow unfolding of a season, or who understood the patience a season asks of anyone watching it, these pieces are for them. To anyone close to them, the engraved design recalls the season they spent watching something transform.
The decision of how to honor them rests entirely with your own memory of their life. It returns the thought to the garden they kept through the summer.
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Holds all of an adult's remains, the same full-size memorial a funeral home provides. Choosing one urn for one person? This is the one.
Holds a meaningful portion of the remains, measured in cups, not all of them. Choose this when dividing ashes between households, or keeping some close after scattering the rest.
Holds a small token: a few spoonfuls. A personal remembrance: one for each family member, or something small to keep on a shelf or bedside table.
Keeping our sizing simple allows for worry-free shopping and a consistent canvas for your special engraving. Each cremation urn has a max size listed in its description. Contact us with specific questions regarding which cremation urn best fits your needs.
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Every design comes in the same three sizes. Here's how families use each one.
Individual
Full size · Approx. 10" highHolds all of an adult's remains, the same full-size memorial a funeral home provides. Choosing one urn for one person? This is the one.
Sharing
Mid size · Approx. 6" highHolds a meaningful portion of the remains, measured in cups, not all of them. Choose this when dividing ashes between households, or keeping some close after scattering the rest.
Keepsake
Pocket size · Approx. 3" highHolds a small token: a few spoonfuls. A personal remembrance: one for each family member, or something small to keep on a shelf or bedside table.