Muldowney Memorials helps families and funeral professionals create more personal, meaningful and memorable farewells.

Our services include:

Memorial Planning & Celebration of Life Design
From intimate gatherings to larger celebrations, we help families plan every aspect of a memorial — from finding the right venue and suppliers to music, flowers, food, personal touches and the overall guest experience.

Funeral Celebrant Services
Our celebrants create and deliver highly personalized ceremonies that tell the story of the person who has died and reflect who they really were.

Pet Memorials
Because pets are family too. We offer personalized pet memorial planning and ceremonies to help families honor and remember a much-loved animal.

Training & Education
Through the Muldowney Memorial School of Thoughtful Planning, we offer professional training including our Celebrant Training Program, Memorial Planning Masterclass, Funeral Hospitality Course and Pet Loss & Remembrance Course.

Speaking & Consulting
Jennifer Muldowney works with funeral homes, organizations and industry groups around the world on personalization, hospitality, celebrancy, memorial planning and the changing expectations of today’s families.

Whether you’re a family planning a farewell or a funeral professional looking to do things differently, our work is ultimately about one thing: creating farewells that feel like the person they’re for.

A memorial planner helps you bring all the pieces of a meaningful farewell together. Think of us a little like an event planner, but with a very different understanding of grief, family dynamics and what it means to honor someone’s life.

We can help with everything from finding the right venue and suppliers to music, flowers, food, photographs, personal touches, timelines and the overall guest experience. Most importantly, we help make sure the memorial actually feels like the person it’s for.

Muldowney Memorials works with families in New York, Florida, North Carolina and Washington, DC, and Ireland with additional locations considered depending on the project.

We also work virtually with families and funeral professionals, and our online courses and educational resources can be accessed from anywhere in the world.

Getting started is simple. Fill out our contact form and tell us a little about what you’re looking for. We’ll get back to you with the best next steps, answer any questions and let you know how we can help.

We believe a farewell should feel like the person it’s for — not like every other funeral you’ve attended. With nearly two decades of experience, we bring together memorial planning, celebrancy, hospitality and creative thinking to help families create something genuinely personal.

We’re not here to tell you how a funeral should look. We’re here to show you what’s possible.

Absolutely. We regularly work alongside funeral directors and other funeral professionals.

We’re not there to replace your funeral home. Our role is to complement the services they provide, particularly when a family wants additional help with personalization, ceremony, hospitality or planning a larger or more involved celebration of life.

Yes — in fact, this is a big part of what we do.

A meaningful farewell doesn't have to take place in a funeral home or follow a traditional format. It might happen in a favorite restaurant, garden, beach, private home or somewhere completely unexpected. It could take place immediately after a death or months later.

We'll help you work out what feels right for the person you're remembering and the people who loved them.

Both. Every ceremony is created around the person and family we're working with.

We can incorporate religious or cultural traditions where they're meaningful, create a completely non-religious ceremony, or combine elements that reflect different beliefs within a family.

There's no standard Muldowney Memorials ceremony — that's rather the point.

As soon as you know you may need us.

For a funeral or ceremony taking place shortly after a death, we understand that there may only be a matter of days to plan. For celebrations of life and larger memorials, having more time gives us greater flexibility with venues, suppliers and all the details involved.

We also work with people who want to plan their own memorial in advance.

Yes. You don't necessarily need full-service memorial planning.

Some families want us to handle everything, while others simply need help with the ceremony, finding a venue, developing the concept, coordinating the day or figuring out how to make the memorial feel more personal.

Tell us where you're stuck and we'll let you know how we can help.

Yes. You don't have to wait until someone dies to think about their farewell.

We can help individuals explore and document what they would like their own memorial or celebration of life to look and feel like. Pre-planning can cover everything from music and readings to venues, food, photographs, personal details and the kind of experience you'd like people to have.

And yes, you're allowed to have some fun with it.

Our training is designed for people who want to create better, more personal experiences around death and remembrance.

That includes funeral professionals, celebrants, death doulas and end-of-life professionals, aspiring memorial planners and others working with grieving families. Some of our education, particularly our Memorial Planning Masterclass, is also suitable for individuals and families who want practical guidance to plan a memorial themselves.

Our current online education includes the Modern Memorials Celebrant Training Program, Muldowney Memorial Planning Masterclass, Funeral Hospitality Course and Honoring the Pawprints: A Guide to Pet Loss & Remembrance.

Each course draws on real-world experience and is designed to give you practical ideas and tools you can actually use — not simply theory.

Yes. Our online funeral and memorial training is designed to give you the flexibility to learn around your own schedule.

Depending on the program, you'll have access to video training alongside resources such as workbooks, templates, exercises and practical tools to help you put what you're learning into practice.

Certificates of completion are available for qualifying training programs.

Our Celebrant Training also offers a Recommended Tier for those who want to take their training further with personalized 1:1 guidance and the opportunity to become a Muldowney Memorials Recommended Celebrant.

Full certification details are included on each individual course page.

Both tiers give you access to the core Modern Memorials Celebrant Training Program and its educational resources.

The Basic Tier is ideal if you want the training, tools and confidence to develop your skills as a modern funeral celebrant.

The Recommended Tier includes additional personalized 1:1 guidance with Jennifer Muldowney and the opportunity, upon successful completion of the requirements, to become a Muldowney Memorials Recommended Celebrant.

Yes. Jennifer works with funeral homes, industry organizations and other businesses on areas including hospitality, personalization, celebrancy, memorial planning and changing family expectations.

Training and consulting can be tailored to the needs of your organization, whether that's a workshop, presentation, team training or a more in-depth consultancy project.

Yes. Jennifer speaks to funeral professionals, industry organizations and wider audiences about modern memorials, grief, hospitality, celebrancy, personalization and the changing way we approach death and remembrance.

For speaking enquiries, please contact us with details of your event, audience, location and proposed date.

Yes. We believe the animals we love deserve meaningful farewells too.

We can help families create personalized pet memorials and ceremonies that celebrate the relationship they shared with their pet. We also offer education and resources around pet loss and remembrance.

Because our offerings include everything from physical products to personalized services and professional training, our return policy varies depending on what you purchase.

Physical Products
If your order arrives damaged, defective or incorrect, please contact us within 7 days of delivery and we’ll work with you to make it right. Personalized or custom-made items cannot be returned once production has begun.

Digital Products & Courses
Digital downloads, workbooks, templates, courses and other educational materials are non-refundable once purchased or accessed.

Celebrant & Memorial Planning Services
Deposits and payments reserve our time and availability and cover work that often begins well before the actual service or memorial. For this reason, payments are generally non-refundable once planning, preparation or other work has begun.

We know that circumstances can change, particularly when dealing with death and grief. If there’s ever an issue with something you’ve purchased from us, please get in touch. We’ll always look at the individual circumstances and do our best to find a fair solution.

Every memorial is different, so our pricing depends on the level of support you need. Celebrant services, memorial planning and coordination are priced based on the scope of the service, while our professional courses and training programs have set pricing available online.

Tell us what you’re looking for and we’ll provide clear pricing upfront, with no surprises.

The easiest way to reach us is through the contact form on our website. Tell us a little about what you need and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can. You can also email us directly at team@muldowneymemorials.com.