Sacred Wild Farewells

We are

Sophie Jauncey,

Mid Wales Certified Funeral Celebrant

& Layla Harris, Florist of

The Rambling Rosa, Hay on Wye

Florist, Celebrant, and sacred guides for life's final threshold.

Our Vision:

To offer Alternative Funerals in Mid Wales that reimagine the funeral as a sacred, love-filled celebration of life, one that is as beautiful, wild, and unique as the person we’re saying goodbye to. Through nature’s touch, foraged flora, and heartfelt ceremony, we create space for grief, joy, remembrance, and deep connection with the cycles of life and death.

Our Offerings:

Ceremonial Funeral Design & Officiation:

Thoughtfully crafted, spiritual, or nature-based ceremonies that reflect the essence of the loved one. Each farewell is personal and sacred.

Wild Floristry & Foraged Hedgerow Decor:

Seasonal, locally foraged arrangements and altars that connect the ceremony to the land. We gather hedgerow offerings, wildflowers, herbs, and natural textures to create symbolic decor.

Sacred Support & Ritual Guidance:

We offer gentle spiritual holding, ritual ideas (candle lighting, earth offerings, nature walks), and space for family-led participation to honour the unique spirit of the departed.

Foraged Farewell Gatherings:

Optional group seasonal Conscious Walks before or after the ceremony, inviting loved ones to connect with nature, collect flowers, share stories, and honour the life in a gentle, grounding way.

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1. Wild Farewell Ceremony
Personalised officiation & wild floral altar -£600

Available for Crematoriums and Natural Burial sites

Alter

Let us create a sacred floral tribute for your loved one in the form of an alter, either in the crematorium, at a natural burial site, or at your chosen sight for releasing their ashes, working with seasonal plants, flowers and herbs.

Offerings

Hand held seasonal herbs for family and friends to imbibe their prayers and blessings during the service.

Sheave

A full coffin sheaf, hand-designed with the family, weaves together meaningful colours and flowers that reflect the life and spirit of the deceased. Ethically and seasonally sourced where possible, it becomes a deeply personal tribute, natural, heartfelt, and symbolic, honouring memories through blooms that speak with beauty, intention, and quiet reverence.

Sophie & Layla’s Ceremonies:

Ceremony

Sophie will design a ceremony for you, to hold and support this most precious of moments, weaving love and memories together, for the honouring of this life.

As a qualified celebrant Sophie will guide you through the process of designing and writing your service to encompass all the aspects of your vision, poetry, readings, music and any other elements you wish to incorporate.

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2. Foraged & Floral Memorial

Personalised officiation, Sacred focal Arch, Seasonal herbal offerings & Casket Spray- £1100

Available for Crematoriums and Natural Burial sights.

Alter

Let us create a sacred floral tribute for your loved one in the form of an alter, either in the crematorium, at a natural burial site, or at your chosen sight for releasing their ashes, working with seasonal plants, flowers and herbs.

Offerings

Hand held seasonal herbs for family and friends to imbibe their prayers and blessings during the service.

Ceremony

Sophie will design a ceremony for you, to hold and support this most precious of moments, weaving love and memories together, for the honouring of the life passed.

Casket Spray

A natural flower seasonal casket spray graces the coffin with quiet, sacred beauty. Wild blossoms, freshly gathered, echo the rhythms of nature, soft petals, shifting hues, and living fragrance. It honours the soul's return to earth, embracing death not with sorrow alone, but with peace, reverence, and untamed, enduring love.

Arch

Processional Arch of seasonal foraged flora that can be carried ahead of the coffin and placed in front of the grave.

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3. Full Sacred Send-Off

Ancestral Farewell Passover

End-to-end Celebration including Ceremony planning, Florals, Conscious Walk, Altar design, Processional Arch and Shamanic drumming with full Celebrant services.-£1,980

Available for Natural Burial sights only

Alter

Let us create a sacred floral tribute for your loved one in the form of an alter, at your chosen natural burial site, working with seasonal plants, flowers and herbs, we will adorn the grave with blessings and intentional offerings.

Conscious walk

A walk in advance of the ceremony for any who wishes to join, a moment of guided reflection with Celebrant Sophie Jauncey, in the land around the burial site.

Offerings

Hand held seasonal herbs for family and friends to imbibe their prayers and blessings during the service, Sophie will guide them to place their offerings, as the service draws to an end.

Full Floral Garland

A full garland of seasonal, hand-foraged flowers brings a deeply personal, natural beauty to a Mid Wales burial. Bespoke and lovingly crafted, each bloom reflects the cycle of life, honouring the deceased with wild elegance. It’s a heartfelt tribute rooted in nature, memory, and the quiet grace of the seasons.

Processional Arch

The Processional Arch of seasonal foraged flora is a on two poles and is carried by two members of the congregation, thereby leading everyone from the entrance across the burial site to the grave side.

It is then placed at the head of the grave becoming a part of the alter that is already there.

Processional Drumming

Sophie will accompany with a gentle shamanic drumming, holding the sacred container as we move towards the ceremony.

Ceremony

This is an approximately 40 minute ceremony, designed in collaboration with the family, in which music, poetry, eulogy and prayers/blessings will be offered in celebration of the life of your loved one.

We believe in death as a sacred threshold, not a sterile event. We believe in the healing power of beauty, nature, and ritual. In a world often disconnected from grief and ceremony, we offer reconnection, to the earth, to each other, and to love.

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