The funeral director's charges
This covers professional services, care of the person who died, the coffin, and vehicles. This is the part that varies most between providers, and it is the part you can compare.
Third-party fees (disbursements)
Crematorium or burial fees, doctors' fees where they apply, and a celebrant or minister. These are set by the crematorium, cemetery or celebrant, not by the funeral director, so they are broadly similar whoever you use.
Optional extras
Flowers, orders of service, notices, limousines, catering and memorials. These add up quickly and are the easiest place to reduce cost without changing the shape of the day.
Funeral costs in Wales
Funeral prices vary between towns and between providers in the same town. Evernext collects the standardised price lists that funeral directors are required to publish, and checks them by person before they appear here.
Where we hold enough checked prices for an area — Cardiff, Newport, Swansea, Wrexham, Llanelli and Caerphilly at the moment — we publish the lowest, typical and highest figures for each part of the funeral, so you can see the real local market rather than a national estimate.