Our Premises
The Boutique Funeral Home
holistic funeral and ceremonial services
Since 2003, Victoria Spence and Life Rites have served the Greater Sydney region and surrounding communities as Sydney’s only trauma-informed, doula-led holistic funeral directors and celebrants.
In 2019 we opened the doors of The Boutique Funeral Home, located in Hurstville in the heart of South Sydney that we share with two other independent funeral directors who look after their own communities. This original funeral home, that harks back to an era where your local funeral director was in your neighbourhood and who was a valued member of your community who knew the people they cared for, and who provided this care in a people-centred and scaled funeral home, with all care facilities onsite.
We are extremely fortunate to be holding one of these gems. A place that allows us to provide our unique holistic integrated care.
We offer a complete funeral service of your choice. Your service may be fully facilitated by us or be family-led: traditional, faith-based, green, LGBTQIA+…at home, our premises, or a venue of your choosing. You may need support with a sudden, traumatic or complex death, or gentle care for pre-term loss, babies and children.
We have a calm and quiet space where you can make arrangements that reflect the life of the person you wish to celebrate and farewell. We can also travel to you, no matter where you are, inside or beyond the Sydney Metropolitan area. So whilst our funeral home is in Hurstville, we continue to service families across the city and state. We have Life Rites team members across Sydney, in the Illawarra, Shoalhaven and on the Central Coast.
With deep compassion and respect, we’ve conducted thousands of funerals and guided countless families through these rites of passage. Contact us today to find out more about our Boutique Funeral Home in Hurstville and our services.
See the Space
Curious about The Boutique Funeral Home? Come visit us in person. We can offer you an intimate and creative space in which to make your own and celebrate the life of your person. We offer after ceremony catering and refreshments.
“…The process of coming together with Victoria to decide on the details we wanted, provided the focus needed to help us work through our grief and create a beautiful, respectful and unique ceremony to celebrate our mum, with family and friends. Victoria, Sarah and all the Life Rites staff are wonderful, and we wholeheartedly thank them for all their kindness, discernment and expertise that made the entire experience so memorable. From our first meeting with Victoria at the lovely Life Rites space, the ceremony itself, through to the final moments at the gravesite, all were handled with sensitivity and flair…”
