Custom memorial songs, hand-written eulogies, and guided grief journals — crafted in the UK by a songwriter and author who believes every life deserves to be told well.
No one teaches you how to speak at a funeral.
How to stand in front of a room and hold a whole life steady in your hands.
How to fold sixty years into four minutes. How to say the unsayable thing.
You are not supposed to know how to do this. Nobody is.
You bring the memories. I'll help you carry them.
Everything here begins the same way: with you telling me about someone — their voice, their habits, the moments you keep. My job is to give those memories somewhere to live.
Written from your memories, in a voice that belongs to them — ready to read aloud. Gentle questions, a careful draft, revisions until it sounds like them.
speeches from £90 · eulogies from £150 (up to 10 min £200) Begin a eulogy we'll go at your paceAn original song written for one person — their phrases, their places, the way they filled a room. Lyrics approved by you before a note is produced.
from £195 · £250 fuller song · £350 with tribute video Begin a song when you're ready — not beforeQuiet, literary journals for sitting with a loss — made to be written in slowly, over the year it takes.
available on Etsy Visit the shop somewhere to put the wordsFor now, commissions are arranged through Fiverr and the journals live on my Etsy shop — a temporary home while I finish building this one. Prices are shown in GBP for reference; Fiverr takes bookings in USD, so the charge may vary a little with the exchange rate at checkout. Either way, I'm only ever an email away.
Once you begin, I'll ask a few gentle questions — their name, any time limit you've been given, a handful of memories or qualities you want included, and the tone you're after. Nothing more than that. Take your time; there's no rush here.
Have a question before you begin? Email hello@sonderlume.com — no obligation, just a conversation.
Through a short, gentle set of questions — written, in your own time, no calls unless you'd like one.
Carefully, from what you've shared. Specific, honest, and in a voice that belongs to them — never a template.
You'll see every word before it's final. Revisions are part of the work, not an extra.
To read at a service, to gift, to keep. Something that holds them, for the days you need it.
Sonderlume began with a song I wrote for my own father after he died. Writing it didn't fix anything — grief doesn't work that way — but it gave the love somewhere to go. That's what I make for other people now.
I'm a UK-based songwriter and author. Every commission is read, written, and rewritten by me personally.