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[Sooner]

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@Istru wrote:

Thank you! You're right! I will mail the card and take the gift in person after. 

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@Istru I wouldn't do a gift.  People have enough to contend with after a funeral.  I always wanted rid of all the plants and reminders of the day.  

And as someone else mentioned, I too dislike wind chimes.  A card is more than enough, and is very appripriate.  I'd do that and let it go.  

[Shop Till you Drop]

it's a kind thought.  But no, do not take a gift to a funeral.  Send a card to the home and that is enough.  

[ROMARY]

Instead of sending flowers and/or plants, I do think that the wind chimes would be very much appreciated by someone in the family.  

A heart felt rememberance, each time the wind activates the gentle chimes.

I haven't thought of this idea.  And I might do the same someday in the hopefully very distant future.  

I really don't know when to give the chimes, though.  I'm sort of thinking of the chimes as a substitute instead of flowers or plants.

Well, lots of suggestions here.

It's nice that O/P wants to do something heartfelt that will be lasting.

[Cakers3]

The OP does not know this family.

While some MAY like wind chimes, others will not like them.

It is too personal a gift to give from a person who is unknown to the family.

I agree that this family has enough to contend with; a card is appropriate and certainly enough.  It appears only one person knows the OP since she was invited.  She already said she does not know the family.

eta:  If the obit indicates donations to a particular organization, that would be appropriate, too.