Please find below sample language that you can adapt into your own voice and use when adding a custom welcome message to your loved one’s LifeWeb.

Default welcome message

All LifeWebs include the following welcome message by default, unless you change the message via your admin panel. For custom welcome messages, a note on how visitors can send memories via email will be appended to the end of the message after submitting.

This is a place to collect your memories and reflect on the special moments lived with [Name of Person]. Whether you knew as family, from school, or a community group, there's a place for your memory here.

phrases to include during social distancing

Consider including one of these phrases in your welcome message during COVID-19 restrictions on gatherings

Until we can gather to celebrate [his/her/their] life, this will allow us each to honor [him/her/them].

During this time of "social distancing" these messages are a way to bring us together in place of a traditional [wake / shiva].

We look forward to coming together to share in the photos and stories you add here at a future Celebration of Life.

It's difficult for us not to be together at this time but this is a place where we can share our pictures, memories, and stories.

adding a link

If you’d like to include a link in your welcome message to a charity for donations or to a GoFundMe campaign, add the text you’d like displayed followed by the hyperlink in parentheses, and we’ll include.

If you are moved to make a donation in [his / her / their] honor, we invite you to contribute to [Charity Name].

In loving memory of [first name of person], contributions may be made to [Organization or fund name].

To help support the family during this difficult time, contributions may be made to [GoFundMe campaign link].

sample custom welcome messages

Please take inspiration from the different sample messages below, picking and choosing components from each or using as inspiration to start a message from scratch that feels right for your person.

option 1

Dear friends and family,

We would greatly appreciate it if you would share your messages and memories of our [mother / grandfather / dear friend] here so that our family and friends, near and far, can also be comforted by your words. Please click on "Share A Memory".

Thank you,

[Names of family members]

option 2

All of us who knew [first name of person] know how much [he / she / they] valued their relationships with their friends and family. They rarely knew a stranger. [Insert mini eulogy here about the beautiful things that made your person who they were. Make this as long as you’d like!].

Please use this site as a place to share the signs you experience or to share a favorite memory of our beloved [first name of person].

option 3

[Name of person] was [descriptor of your person, e.g. larger than life, a force to be reckoned with]. Along [his / her / their] journey in life they touched and inspired many people. We have become acutely aware of this fact in the days since they passed. So many people have shared their memories and stories of the times they had with her. We ask you to contribute all of that now to this online memorial we have created in [his / her / their] honor.

We thank you in advance for your contributions,

[Names of family members]

option 4

As a way to honor [first name of person] and keep them alive in our hearts and souls, we are starting this virtual scrapbook of [his / her / their] life. Our hope as a family is that this project will be a place for everyone who knew and loved [name of person] to share their memories, stories and photos with each other and our family. They were [adjectives or description unique to your person] and [he / she / they] will be forever missed by us all!

option 5

Please share your memories of [Nickname of Person]!

option 6

Welcome to our shared website where we can celebrate the life of [all the names your person went by - Mom / Grandma / Great-Granny]. This space is for all of us - friends, colleagues, neighbors, kids, grandkids, significant others. Everyone's memories and experiences with [him / her / them] are different. It would be wonderful to hear from all of you on how [he / she / they] touched your lives.