Factors That Affect the Cost of a Headstone, Cemetery Memorial or Monument
Every memorial we make is custom to decisions that each family that we have the privilege to work with will make in regards to:
- Size
- Color of granite
- Quality of granite
- Style
- Texture
- Craftsmanship
- Installation and Shipping
Set a budget and we will design within that budget.
What is the perfect size memorial?
A “standard” memorial size does not exist. As a result, we encourage all of our families to measure memorials in the cemetery prior to selecting a size so that they are viewing the memorial in its natural setting. Memorials look larger in our displays than they will look outside.
What color and quality is the granite?
Granite comes in different varieties, colors, and grades. It is sourced from domestic and international quarries, each with unique characteristics and variations in durability and color. Granite’s “grade” or quality is a measure of the material’s durability, density, structural integrity, consistency, suitability for cutting, crafting and finishing. More durable varieties of granite are best for crafting memorials, and higher grade, highly durable, highly consistent granite varieties are typically higher priced – because they will not absorb moisture, will not discolor and will not fade. More common and readily available granite varieties and colors are usually priced lower (more supply). Harder to find granite varieties and colors are often priced higher. Source location and shipping distance also affects price.
The quarries we rely on in the United States and Canada are rigorously selected for high durability and rich color. Different quarries yield different mineral compositions in the stones, accounting for variations in durability and color.
What is the style and texture of the memorial?
We have our own in house artists that can create any style of memorial you desire. The more complex the shape of the memorial the higher the cost. In addition, the shape of the memorial can be finished in many different textures such as polished, tiffany, sawn, rustic, blued, etc., that can change the cost of the memorial.
What is the craftsmanship level?
The range of custom memorial and headstone design options is limited only by your imagination and your cemetery’s limitations and rules. Most any artistic design can be carved into granite or crafted into bronze. Granite carving processes can be simple or complex, one-dimensional or multi-dimensional. Higher priced monuments usually include complex artwork, portraits, laser etching, hand etching, porcelain portraits, artistic carving, detailed imagery, and custom designs. The simpler the craftsmanship level selected, the lower the memorial price.
Flat Granite Grave Markers
Flat, flush, or lawn-level grave markers are precision cut slabs of granite that lie flat on the ground at the head or foot of a grave. We often use classic or traditional design elements to enhance the beauty and personalize the message on the marker. They can be for any number of traditional and cremation graves and come in a variety of sizes, styles, shapes, and granite colors.
Single Classic Flat Granite Markers: $300 to $2700
Double Classic Flat Granite Markers: $600 to $4200
Bevel/Pillow Granite Grave Markers
Bevel, or pillow, markers are cut slabs of granite that are raised slightly above the ground and are higher in the back than in the front. This makes them easier to locate and read from a distance in a cemetery. Sometimes they have a granite base to support the marker. We use classic or traditional design elements to enhance the beauty and personalize the message on the marker. They can be for any number of traditional and cremation graves and come in a variety of sizes, styles, shapes, and colors.
Single Classic Bevel/Pillow Granite Markers: $600 to $3500
Double Classic Bevel/Pillow Granite Markers: $800 to $6000
Flat Bronze Grave Markers
Flat Bronze Grave Markers lie flat on the ground at the head or foot of grave. The bronze is actually a flat plate that can be affixed to the face of an optional flat granite marker. They often feature raised artistic design elements to enhance the beauty and personalize the message on the headstone. Flat bronze grave markers can be for any number of traditional and cremation graves and come in a variety of sizes, styles, shapes, and colors.
Single Bronze Markers: $995 to $4100
Double Bronze Markers: $2800 to $6500
Bronze Veterans Markers & Bronze Matching Markers for Spouses
The government provides bronze grave markers to veterans but not to their spouses – unless they’re both buried in a qualified government cemetery. Fortunately, veterans’ family members can order an exact matching bronze marker design with your personal information to go side by side in a private cemetery. We design perfect copies that can complement or take the place of a marker issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs. We also make markers for the veterans themselves.
Matching Bronze Veterans Markers for Spouses: Starting From $995
Upright Headstones & Monuments
Upright, or raised, monuments sit on a granite base and rise several feet in the air, The tablet has plenty of room for traditional or artistic design elements to enhance the beauty and personalize the message on the headstone. Upright monuments are visible from great distances in a graveyard. They can be for any number of traditional and cremation graves and come in a variety of sizes, styles, shapes, and colors.
Single Classic Upright Monument: $1200 to $8000
Double Classic Upright Monument: $2000 to $15,000
Slant Headstones & Monuments
This type of headstone rests on a granite base or directly on the ground like a wedge – broad at the bottom and narrow at the top. They require a foundation but a base is optional. The face of the headstone can be flat with personalized etchings and engravings on its surface. You can select from a wide variety of granite colors, sizes, shapes and styles for both traditional and cremation memorials and for any number of graves.
Single Classic Slant Headstones without Base: $700 to $4000
Single Classic Slant Headstones with Base: $1000 to $6500
Double Classic Slant Headstones without Base: $1000 to $7000
Double Classic Slant Headstones with Base: $1500 to $10,000
Memorial Statues
The stone artisans at Rome Monument are experts at designing and carving custom statues for our customers. We don’t use template molds or copy from monument design catalogs and brochures. You tell us what you want and we’ll build it – at a cost that may even be less than what you buy from a funeral home, cemetery, or other monument company because we make the monuments in our own facility using our own craftspeople. Our memorial statues can be for any number of graves, any style, any shape.
You can select from a wide variety of granite colors for both traditional and cremation memorial statues in different price ranges.
Memorial Statue Designs: Starting From $4000
Sculpted Headstones & Monuments
Designed by Rome for you and you alone, our sculpted headstones and monuments are carved by our own stone craftspeople into custom 3-D shapes and inscribed with beautiful etchings or engravings. Memorial sculptures can be for any number of graves and come in a variety of styles and shapes. You can select from a wide variety of granite colors for both traditional and cremation memorial sculptures in different price ranges. Memorial sculptures can stand on a granite base or be built in combination with other monument types.
Sculpted Headstone & Monument Designs: Starting From $4000
Single Crypt Mausoleums
A single, or one-crypt, mausoleum is an above ground, free-standing burial vault that is just large enough to encase a single coffin and possible cremations. The front is typically decorated with lettering, symbols and artwork. You can select from a wide variety of granite colors in different price ranges.
Basic Family Small Single-Crypt Private Mausoleums: From $15K
Double Crypt Mausoleums
A double crypt mausoleum contains two crypts to store two caskets, generally a husband and wife, spouses, or significant others. These companion crypts can be placed back to back, side by side, or one
on top of the other. The front is typically decorated with lettering, symbols and artwork. You can select from a wide variety of styles, shapes, and granite colors in different price ranges.
Basic Family Small Double-Crypt Private Mausoleums: From $25K
Two Crypt ‘Stacked’ (One On Top Of The Other) Mausoleums: From $25K
Companion Crypt Mausoleums: From $25K
Side-By-Side Couch Crypt Mausoleums: From $25K
Private Family Multiple Crypt Mausoleums
3-Crypt Mausoleum
4-Crypt Mausoleum
6-Crypt Mausoleum
Private family multiple crypt mausoleums contain crypts for not only a husband and wife, but for other family mem- bers as well. Families often have Rome build a structure that initially encases one or two crypts but that has room for many more crypts for many more family members. The front is typically decorated with lettering, symbols and artwork. You can select from a wide variety of granite colors in different price ranges. 3 Crypt Mausoleums: Starting From $28K
4 Crypt Mausoleums: Starting From $35K
5 Crypt Mausoleums: Starting From $40K
6 Crypt Mausoleums: Starting From $45K
7 Crypt Mausoleums: Starting From $50K
8 Crypt Mausoleums: Starting From $55K
9 Crypt Mausoleums: Starting From $60K
Private Family Multiple Crypt Mausoleums
2-Crypt Walk-In Mausoleum
6-Crypt Walk-In Mausoleum
9-Crypt Walk-In Mausoleum
16-Crypt Walk-In Mausoleum
Walk-in mausoleums are buildings that contain the crypt or crypts of many family members. They have doors and interior space for visitors to be comfortable and protected from the elements year round. Inside your mausoleum, you can display photographs, murals, and personal artifacts that tell the story of your life.
Walk-In Mausoleum (2-4 Crypts): Starting From $95K
(6-8 Crypts): Starting From $145K
Estate Walk-In Mausoleum (12-16 Crypts): Starting From $350K
Chapel Walk-In Mausoleums
Chapel mausoleums replicate the shape of a chapel and sometimes contain an actual chapel room. Some or all of the crypts are inside the building, with an entrance and space for visitors indoors. The building might consist of two garden-type mausoleums with a roof connecting the two. If the building is not enclosed, it is called an ‘Open Chapel’ mausoleum. The protected interior allows for art, artifacts and personal family treasures to be displayed and enjoyed by family members.
Chapel Walk-In Mausoleum Designs: Starting From $180K
Garden/Outdoor or Sepulcher Mausoleums
Garden mausoleums, also referred to as Outdoor or Sepulcher mausoleums, are open air structures without a defined walk-in interior. In a garden mausoleum, crypt openings are on the outside of the building, Rome can design a garden mausoleum in any style, any color granite, and for any number of graves.
Garden Mausoleum Designs: Starting From $200K
Classically Styled Walk-In Mausoleums
Get majestic with our classically styled mausoleum designs that incorporate soaring and intricate classical or neo-classical architectural design elements such as imposing fluted turned ionic columns. Crypts for any number of family members are located inside the building, along with other sentimental memorabilia and artwork. These large and stately mausoleums have steps leading up to the entrance with benches, statues and beautiful landscaping to greet visiting family members.
Classically-Styled Walk-In Mausoleums: Starting From $200K
Natural Boulder Shaped Monuments
Boulder headstones and monuments are real granite boulders with a flat facing that contains the inscriptions and artwork for that individual or individuals. Often, boulder monuments have bronze plaques affixed to the surface with the information and artwork on it. These can either mark a grave in a cemetery or be placed on someone’s private property as a memorial for the deceased. Natural granite boulders are for any number of graves and come in a wide selection of natural colors and textures.
Natural Boulder Shaped Monuments: $2200 to $8000
Commemorative Memorial Plaques
Custom commemorative plaques can also be affixed to traditional or cremation monuments such as benches, boulders, flat or upright monuments, columbarium niche doors, and statues. They can also mark the site where cremated remains are buried or be attached to a wall or tree as an everlasting reminder of an individual’s life. Made of granite, bronze and other metals, you can select from a wide variety of metallic and granite colors in a variety of shapes, styles, and in different price ranges.
Commemorative Memorial Plaques: Priced per Desired Size
Other Headstone, Monument & Memorial Prices
- Vestibule Mausoleums (Small Structures, Resembling A House Or Small Ornate Building With a Door In the Middle): Starting From $87K
- Cemetery Owned Outdoor Mausoleums (32 Crypt Community Mausoleum, Not A Walk-In): Starting From $150K
- Cemetery Owned Walk-In Mausoleums (32 Crypt Community Building): Starting From $275K
- Westminster Family Crypts (4-Crypt Mausoleum, Side-By Side Crypts, and Stacked On Top Of Each Other): Starting from $35K
Rome Monument also sells community mausoleums, private columbariums, church and community columbariums, crypts, urns and niche nameplates and plaques.
Memorial and Headstone Options
Listed below are a number of general memorial and headstone options to enhance your memorial. For most letter-
ing and artwork on the face of the headstone, there is no extra charge.
- Personalized Engravings
- Classic Carvings and Images
- Etched Portraits
- Etched Scenes and Images
- Epitaph Inscriptions
- Diamond Etched Portraits – Extra Charge
- Diamond Etched Scenes and Images – Extra Charge
- Flower and Floral Vases – Extra Charge
- Bronze Lettering, Accents and Attachments – Extra Charge
- Memorial Portrait Pictures – Extra Charge