Is it okay to bring a fruit basket to a funeral visitation instead of the usual flowers or plant??

Flowers are traditional at the funeral home.


You could send the fruit basket to the home of the bereaved.


Mourners bring themselves to the funeral home (no gifts). Cards are left at the entrance where guests sign in. If the cards contain money, it may be safer to give them to the funeral director.





I suggest sending the fruit basket to wherever the wake is and the guests can partake from there.





After the funeral, the family has to decide whether to take the flowers to the grave site, divide up the flowers amongst the family, or to send some to nursing homes or to a hospice.

Is it okay to bring a fruit basket to a funeral visitation instead of the usual flowers or plant??
No. That is very inappropriate. Flowers and plants are for the deceased, the fruit is for the mourners.
Reply:Where I live, flowers for the viewing or funeral, later a cooked dish is dropped off at the bereaved's house by all well wishers so the family don't have to cook during the worst of their grief.
Reply:No.
Reply:Fruit baskets are usually given as a well-wisher's gift, something like get well soon (maybe cause fruits are nutritious). Besides if you give fruit baskets during a funeral, who's going to eat it if everyone's sad ( and you can't definitely give it to the dead)..
Reply:It is thoughtful that you thought of it but I wouldnt say its proper. I would reccomend making a donation for funeral expenses.
Reply:A couple of days after my father's funeral I received a fruit basket. It was the nicest token....I was missing him and sad and all the flowers, of course, were wilting by then.





Obviously you don't take or send a fruit basket (or even a live plant) to the funeral home...but these are great items to have sent to the home.
Reply:You can bring a fruit basket to the house, not to the visitation!
Reply:Flowers generally at the funeral home, fruit baskets and any kind of food at the wake, or after funeral visitation, unless it's being held in a church basement, then the church ladies usually handle the food.
Reply:No. Feel free to send the fruit to the home of the family.