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Tanja Soeter and Desiree Vernie started Bye memorial design together. Both with a fresh look at the funeral industry, but with a clear idea. In our blogs you will get more background about Bye and the products we develop, but also about what we encounter in the funeral industry, about us personally and about the people we meet.

Een urn met een Roodborstje

An urn with a Robin

The urn with the Robin was one of our first designs. The beauty and symbolism of this bird have always touched us, and we felt that this symbol perfectly aligns with our mission to make life more loving, lighter, and more beautiful.

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Urn met foto

An urn with photo

“I love the beautiful design and the possibility to put something personal in it, it adds emotion and remembrance and that is supportive when grieving.” This is what Esther van Apeldoorn, grief and loss expert said upon seeing our Bell Shrine photo urn. 

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Een mini urn

A mini urn

If you’ve never picked out an urn before, everything is new and unfamiliar. So when we show someone our Boat mini urn, for example, you often see them hesitate before they ask the question on their lips; “Will everything fit in here?” A very difficult question to ask, but also a very logical one. Because in reality, it is quite difficult to estimate how many ashes remain after someone is cremated.

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Een persoonlijke urn

A personal urn

Grieving and saying goodbye are very personal; everyone has their own views on what is important to them. People all mourn in their own way and have their own thoughts, memories and feelings. 

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Afscheidnemer

Farewell

It is no coincidence that Tanja and I founded Bye together. Tanja has big ideas, things that she knows need to happen, that will add something and that people are really waiting for.

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Een urn, wat is dat?

An urn, what’s that?

Some people look a little weird when we tell them that we started designing urns. Many have a vase-like shape in their head and can often attach a very specific color to it. But there are also many people who have never seen an urn and others have just had to look for one. 

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Liever, lichter en mooier

Beautiful, sweeter and lighter

“We want to make it more beautiful, sweeter and lighter”. Tanja and I have said this to each other so many times when we were thinking about Bye. But how do you get that idea across without implying it is now all black, ugly and unkind? 

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Met liefde gemaakt

Made with love

We create all our designs ourselves, in our memorial design studio. The ideas for our designs are born from immersing ourselves in farewell rituals and symbols from around the world and of all times.

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Een urn vullen kan je zelf

You can fill an urn yourself

When we design and develop our Bye designs, we always ask ourselves: do we like this ourselves? Would we buy this and is this nice to look at? We used the same type of yardstick when we started thinking about filling an urn. 

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