Beautifully better funerals

Funeral Directors

More personal. More compassionate. More simple in the planning. And importantly, more affordable. We’re here to help you say goodbye in whatever way you feel is the right way. We’ll be there to help guide you at every step. And we’ll do it all with honesty and integrity.

What happens now?

It starts with a call

You can call our Picaluna team at any time to discuss your particular situation, and start the funeral planning process.

Brought into our care

Acting with compassion, care and respect, we make all the arrangements to transfer the deceased person into our care.

We meet with you

Our funeral arranger meets with you to help and guide you in creating a funeral that is meaningful, personal and within your budget.

Everything is organised

We carefully organise and
professionally deliver a personalised funeral – one that’s totally aligned with your wishes and feels authentic to the memory of your loved one.

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Changing the way funerals are done for the better

Are you searching for non-traditional funeral homes in your area? Picaluna is all about offering genuine, personal funerals, helping family, friends and the community to honour, mourn, celebrate, heal and rejuvenate.

A little about us

What’s in a name?

Our founders were inspired by some extraordinary images of a
cliff-top funeral for a still-born baby named Luna. It was heart-felt, community-lead and beautiful. Little Luna gave us our name. Grazie Luna.
(Italian: piccolina – little one)

Change

Picaluna is changing the way funerals are done for the better. It’s a change that needed to happen. More personal. 
More compassionate. And importantly, more affordable.

Community

Picaluna is about community. Walking alongside the bereaved in their most significant time of need, is at the heart of what we do. We’re there for you, guiding, listening and assisting with whatever is needed to create the most meaningful
funeral possible.

Giving back

We believe in giving back.
Picaluna donates 5% of our profit to your choice from one of our Picaluna Charity partners.

We work with you

Picaluna’s team of funeral directors and funeral celebrants offer a wealth of experience and expertise to guide you in the creation of an appropriate funeral ceremony.  Being a different style of funeral home in your area, we pride ourselves on our personal approach – we’re all about providing you with the right information and appropriate support to honour your person. We work in our communities and alongside end-of-life consultants, death doulas and palliative support workers to provide a continuity of care when you need it most.

Be inspired - do it your way

At Picaluna, we believe in creating truly unique and personalised farewells. We’re a different kind of funeral home in your area. We work together with families to create life celebrations or personal funerals that take place in meaningful locations. Whether this is your church, your backyard, a surf club, golf club or crematorium chapel. Picaluna funeral directors take the time to guide you through the funeral planning; to help inspire you in creating a beautiful farewell for your special person.

What does a funeral cost?

Picaluna does things a little differently to traditional funeral homes in your area; we see our role is to assist and empower families to create meaningful and authentic farewells that are aligned with their values… and at an affordable price. We are completely transparent with our pricing, sourcing everything at cost and applying a 35% Service fee to the wholesale cost of the funeral.

We believe in giving back

We donate 5% of our profit to your choice from one of our Picaluna Charity partners.

We have donated in excess of $105,000 to well over 160 different charities, since our launch in October, 2016.

Cremation and Burial done beautifully better

Whether it’s cremation services in your area you’re after, or a burial, we’re here to help you farewell your loved one in a truly beautiful way, with our support and guidance at every step. Cremation cost starts from $2,585, with a Burial cost starting from $7,116

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Funeral live streaming

The livestreaming of a funeral ceremony brings family and friends together no matter how far apart they are. Picaluna provides sophisticated multi-camera options for livestreaming and webcasting. Whether in a traditional funeral home in your area or a backyard, it can take place in almost any location. A high-quality recording is also available for download following the ceremony as a special reminder of the day.

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Andy Bigham
10 March 2024

Alex was a great choice for us in looking after the arrangements when we recently lost a family friend. What a great support it was to have a calm and level head, combined with someone who clearly cares about how she supports her clients through a challenging time. Not only was the process seamless from our point of view, (which of course is really important at a time like this) but some thoughtful research brought wonderful personal insights to the commemorative service. Alex is thoroughly organised and is a lovely gentle and calming person. Thank you for being a steady hand just when one is needed.

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Kath Ware
5 March 2024

Sarah officiated recently at my brothers farewell ceremony. My brother was a bit of an unconventional character, and Sarah’s presentation style captured his spirit perfectly. It also helped many of his colourful friends to feel much more in-tune with the service than they would have felt had the service taken place in a church. Her guidance throughout the planning process of the event was invaluable and her patience and support were exactly what we all needed. Thank you! We were also very impressed with the way Sarah reached out to everyone in attendance and asked them to look after themselves, look after each other, take deep breaths, stay hydrated (on such a hot day) and give themselves the time and permission to grieve in their own way. These are such obvious things to say, and yet so often they go completely unsaid at funerals where it’s all about the person who has already moved beyond feeling any pain. Nobody looks forward to these sorts of events, but we all thought that Sarah was absolutely central in helping us to generate an atmosphere of mutual love and connectedness among everyone in attendance, which certainly helped to turn a painful day into a beautiful celebration of my brothers life and legacy.

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Cara-Lyn Kelly
5 March 2024

It is with great pleasure to thank Shelly for her warm and professional way of guiding our large family through a tough time when we lost mum's ‘love of her life, after 66 years’,’ and ‘our larger than life’, dad! From the very first call to Picaluna’s main number, we were made to feel at ease. We were reassured by Shelly from that first call that we were going to be able to trust her expertise and natural ability to blend with us as if we had known her for years! To be that voice of reason as the 'wise one' of the family when needed. Shelly took time to not only get to know us and the special man our dad was, but also what we all wanted for dads funeral. At times this was challenging as differing opinions were handled so well by Shelly who was calm, confident and inclusive of everyone’s thoughts and wishes. Shelly was able to steer the conversation back on track and quite quickly seemed to pick up our vision of what would be suitable for our dads send off! After a few hours of being with us Shelly was available to meet with us and the priest only a few hours later the same day without any hesitation, and continued to be available to answer our calls, change a few things here and there, and to ensure that dads send off was going to be a tribute to the special man our dad was. The day of dad’s funeral was just perfect, Shelly looked after us and especially mum, and every little detail was outstanding. The attached pictures can only show a small part of how special Shelly made dads send off, but mum and the rest of the family will remember her warmhearted, attentive, considerate and thoughtful presence. This included collecting our dads ashes and holding onto them until mum felt able to receive them. I would recommend Picaluna Funerals and Shelly, to be entrusted to be the angel to create a loving and memorable goodbye! Thank you from our family to Shelly and Picaluna Funerals. Cara-Lyn K

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Maria Pagano
24 February 2024

Thank you Sarah for your support and professionalism during a difficult time. The ceremony you delivered for my brother's farewell was beautiful.Thank you for working with our family and taking the time getting to know my brother. I believe this certainly helped to make his ceremony unique.

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Andrew Young
21 February 2024

If there was a silver lining to the loss of my Mum, it was how she passed and how the team at Picaluna, especially Jaqi, made my family and I feel throughout the entire experience. They were extremely understanding, patient, supportive and informative. Everything that we needed. I can’t recommend them enough. Thank you for making it that much easier 💜

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Carol Keeble
9 February 2024

We found our Picaluna Funeral Director to be flexible, efficient and personable. She understood what we wanted and directed proceedings in a very professional yet empathetic way. 10/10.