Loss touches everyone, and the ways we remember those we've loved deserve care, permanence, and beauty.
At Gold Coast Engraving, we approach memorial engraving with sensitivity and precision, creating lasting tributes that honour lives, preserve memories, and provide comfort during grief's difficult journey.
Whether you're personalizing cremation urns, engraving memorial plaques, customizing remembrance jewellery, or marking final resting places, we craft memorials that speak to enduring love and the irreplaceable individuals being remembered.
Final resting places deserve markers reflecting lives lived and love enduring. We engrave headstones and tombstones with names, dates, epitaphs, religious symbols, or personal messages that commemorate individuals within cemetery and memorial settings. These permanent tributes suit traditional burials, family plots, memorial gardens, or any final resting place requiring durable stone engraving withstanding decades of weather exposure while maintaining legibility and beauty honouring those remembered.
Pricing: From $150 per headstoneBeyond traditional headstones, memorial stones mark remembrance in varied settings. We engrave garden stones, bench markers, pathway stones, or memorial boulders placed in homes, memorial gardens, parks, or meaningful locations. These flexible memorials suit cremation families, those preferring non-cemetery remembrance, memorial tree plantings, or anyone wanting remembrance markers in personally significant locations where loved ones spent time, found joy, or now rest within landscapes they cherished.
Pricing: From $85 per stoneCremation requires dignified vessels honouring remains with beauty and permanence. We personalise urns and keepsake containers with names, dates, meaningful verses, or decorative elements across materials including metals, timber, ceramics, and stone. These sacred vessels suit traditional urn selection, keepsake distribution among family members, companion urns for couples, or specialized containers matching personality and preferences of individuals being honoured through thoughtful material and design choices.
Pricing: From $95 per urnUrn selection represents deeply personal decisions during difficult times. We customize cremation urns across diverse materials, sizes, and styles with engraving that honours individual personalities, beliefs, interests, or family connections. These personalized vessels suit traditional display, burial, scattering ceremonies, or home placement—providing dignified containers for remains while reflecting unique individuals through material choices, design elements, and engraved personalization capturing essence of lives being commemorated.
Pricing: From $120 per urnWearable remembrance provides ongoing comfort and connection. We engrave ash jewellery and memorial lockets that hold small cremation ash portions, creating intimate remembrance pieces worn daily. These personal memorials suit those finding comfort keeping loved ones physically near, family members wanting individual keepsakes, or anyone whose grief journey benefits from tangible connections providing comfort during difficult moments when remembrance brings both sadness and solace through physical proximity.
Pricing: From $55 per piecePermanent remembrance requires durable, beautiful markers. We create engraved memorial plaques in bronze, brass, stainless steel, timber, and stone commemorating individuals in cemetery settings, memorial gardens, memorial walls, or meaningful locations. These versatile memorials suit cremation families, bench dedications, tree plantings, building dedications, or any remembrance requiring permanent markers withstanding outdoor exposure while maintaining legibility and beauty through decades of remembrance and repeated family visits.
Pricing: From $75 per plaqueVisual remembrance preserves faces alongside names and dates. We create memorial photo plaques combining images with engraved text on materials suited for both indoor display and outdoor installation. These combined visual and textual memorials provide powerful remembrance tools helping families maintain visual connections while documenting biographical details—particularly meaningful when remembering those whose smiles, expressions, and physical presence remain vivid in memory deserving permanent visual preservation.
Pricing: From $85 per plaqueSymbolic shapes carry emotional resonance in memorial contexts. We personalise heart-shaped keepsakes in timber, metal, and stone with names, dates, or memorial messages. These emotionally symbolic pieces work as ash keepsakes, memorial tokens, sympathy gifts, or remembrance items for family members wanting individual memorial pieces. The universal heart symbolism communicates love transcending death—providing comfort through shape itself before considering personal engraving adding specific individual remembrance.
Pricing: From $45 per heartLight symbolizes ongoing presence and eternal memory within memorial traditions. We engrave memorial lanterns for cemetery placement, garden installation, or home display with names, dates, or comforting messages. These illuminated memorials provide both symbolic and practical light—creating peaceful memorial spaces where candlelight or solar illumination provides contemplative atmosphere during remembrance visits. Light's symbolic significance across cultures makes lanterns particularly meaningful memorial choices transcending specific religious traditions.
Pricing: From $65 per lanternFaith provides comfort and framework for understanding loss. We personalise crosses and religious memorial items with names, dates, scripture verses, or religious symbols honouring faith traditions providing meaning during grief. These spiritually significant memorials suit Christian traditions, interfaith families, or anyone whose beliefs require religious symbolism within memorial contexts—providing comfort through familiar religious imagery while adding specific individual remembrance through personal engraving.
Pricing: From $55 per crossPhotographs preserve visual memory requiring appropriate framing. We engrave memorial picture frames with names, life dates, memorial verses, or comforting messages that contextualize displayed images. These personalized frames suit funeral service displays, home remembrance spaces, anniversary remembrance, or ongoing memorial areas where photographs provide visual connection complemented by engraved text documenting who, when, and eternal significance of individuals whose faces remain vivid within treasured photographs.
Pricing: From $48 per frameGrief processing benefits from structured reflection opportunities. We personalise memorial journals and remembrance books including grief journals, memory books, or guest books for funeral services with names, dates, or dedication text. These reflective tools suit those processing grief through writing, families collecting shared memories, funeral service guest documentation, or ongoing memorial projects where written reflection provides healing through documented memory, shared stories, and written connections maintained beyond physical presence.
Pricing: From $42 per journalPersonalized urns, engraved keepsake containers, and memorial jewellery provide dignified vessels for remains while offering family members individual memorial pieces maintaining personal connections to loved ones.
Headstones, memorial plaques, and permanent markers create lasting tributes within burial grounds providing focal points for family visits, grief processing, and multi-generational remembrance spanning decades.
Memorial frames, keepsake hearts, and remembrance lanterns create dedicated spaces within homes where families maintain daily connections to lost loved ones through objects combining beauty, symbolism, and personal meaning.
Engraved memorial items, personalized keepsake jewellery, and commemorative pieces provide meaningful sympathy gifts acknowledging loss while offering tangible comfort during grief's difficult early stages.
Garden stones, memorial benches, and outdoor plaques create peaceful remembrance spaces in homes, parks, or memorial gardens where natural settings provide contemplative environments for remembrance and healing.
We understand memorial engraving requires sensitivity, patience, and care during difficult times. We provide compassionate consultation helping families make decisions during grief while ensuring final results honour loved ones appropriately.
Located in Arundel on the Gold Coast, we service local families, funeral homes, and memorial providers with personal consultation. We also accept mail-in orders from Brisbane, Tweed, and across Australia.
Bring your own memorial items or let us source appropriate urns, plaques, frames, or memorial pieces matching your preferences, budget, and desired aesthetic.
Whether you need one personalized urn or multiple family keepsakes, we handle orders of any size with equal care and attention, with a $30 service minimum.
Not sure what text fits, which materials suit different environments, or how to phrase memorial messages? We'll guide you through options with patience and sensitivity, ensuring final engraving honours your loved one appropriately.
