How We Help

To Honour | To Remember | To Heal.

Remember, you're not alone.

No matter the circumstances, you are never alone. Your family becomes our family. We guide you through every step with care, expertise, and respect, helping you create personalised, meaningful, and uplifting farewells.

Tong & Peryer’s compassionate work ethic and professionalism is reflected in everything we say and do. Taking an empathetic, solutions-driven approach to afterlife care, we guide generations towards finding peace of heart at the end of life’s journey.

We honour all faiths and cultures, offering traditional and natural burials, cremations, repatriations, and more — each service tailored to reflect the life being celebrated. Even after the service, our doors remain open, creating a community where families can find comfort, connection, and shared understanding.

Our Service Options

Throughout time, funerals have played a crucial role in helping us to say goodbye, while also connecting us with the loving support of friends and family. Planning and attending a meaningful funeral can have a lasting and profound impact on peoples lives and the way they grieve. We know how difficult and daunting it can all feel when someone you love dies, especially if you’re also responsible for arranging the funeral.

Our family care team will guide you every step of the way, from washing and dressing, discussing visitations, through to ceremony and rituals, each component should be personal,  meaningful and memorable. Whether a small and intimate gathering with close family and friends, a large service in a church or favourite venue, a tangi at your marae, or in the garden at home, the options are endless and often only limited by imagination (and of course, your budget).

Where to Begin

We don’t do packages. Below are some examples of our services to guide you on the choice of service you might like to consider. We can refine the options that best suit your need when we meet.

Unattended Cremation

An unattended cremation is also known as a direct cremation. We take the deceased into our care and casket them directly after washing and dressing.

There is no viewing or gathering and after the cremation, the ashes are held at the funeral home for the family to collect.

Essential Care Cremation

For those seeking a more affordable funeral, our Essential Care experience is the ideal choice.

This option includes a cremation committal service people can attend. The deceased is taken into our care, washed and dressed and placed in a casket of your choice.

This experience includes limited viewing times, flowers and a hearse. Ashes are held at the funeral home for the family to collect.

Traditional Cremation Service

This cremation service is tailored to the family’s wishes, creating a meaningful, uplifting farewell. Options include personalised ceremonies and rituals, tribute videos, and livestreams for friends and family afar.

A service is held at a venue or location of your choice and often led by a celebrant or religious officiant followed by the cremation. Ashes are collected either in an eco-friendly container or an urn chosen by the family and returned within a few days.

We will also assist with any ash interment choices the family would like to make.

Traditional Burial Service

A bespoke burial service either at the graveside, urupa with a service at a venue or location of your choice.

Everything we do is tailored to the families needs and we personalise the service to honour your loved one.

We are able to help you with the purchase of a plot and interment application and can advise on eco-friendly options such as natural burials.

Memorial Service

A cremation or burial is undertaken immediately and generally private to immediate family. We take the deceased into our care, where they are washed and dressed and placed in a casket of your choice.

At a later date, we help the family create a fitting memorial service at a venue of choice which may include a celebrant, music, photo tributes and livestreaming.

The memorial service creates the space for families to process their initial grief without the pressure of plannng and attending a funeral within days of a loved one’s death, which for some can be overwhelming.

Living Funeral

A more comtemporary experience, fairly new to death care, living funerals are memorial events where individuals are celebrated by friends and family while still alive.

They are often held by someone near the end of life  as a meaningful farewell. People perceive living funerals as a way to help them live better—when you become conscious of death, you find new meaning to life. Some prefer to call it a life celebration or a living tribute.

What to expect when we meet

When you meet with a member of our family care team, we’ll work with you to clarify your wishes. We will ask about your loved one to gain a more intimate understanding of the person we will honour. This is an important  time for you to communicate your ideas and preferences, to share your loved one’s life story, revisit memories, and highlight their accomplishments. We will use this information to create a personalised, meaningful celebration of a life.

We welcome any questions that you may have about what may be possible. Don’t be afraid to ask. We’ve arranged so many different types of funerals and we love doing all we can to help make extraordinary and memorable moments happen.

We will also ask for information that will be required for Birth, Deaths and Marriages in order to file for a Death Certificate. Gathering this information ahead of time helps reduce stress at the time of passing.