A celebration of life video
A celebration of life is about the life more than the loss. The video for it should feel the same: how they were, what they'd say, why the room smiles through it.
How it differs from a memorial video
The material is the same: photos, memories, a voice telling their story. What changes is the register. Write about them the way you'd talk at the reception, not at the graveside, and the narration follows: warm, affectionate, funny if that's who they were.
What families put in one
Pick what sounds like them.
Nothing invented
The narration is built only from the few sentences you write. No stock eulogy phrases, nothing made up about them.
Where it gets used
It's short and made for phones, so it travels: the group chat before the gathering, the cousins who couldn't fly in, the phones people keep it on afterward. If you also need something long to play in the room, this is the piece people take home.
What you need to start
A handful of photos and a few sentences about who they were. The finished film is ready within 24 hours, for the service and for everyone who couldn't be there.