Welcome to Memories In The Making, Inc.
Your Local Online Resource for Headstones & Monuments
As a virtual memorialist without the overhead cost of a physical store, we are able to offer you exceptional products without skimping on quality.
Contact Us for Memorial Products
Pay homage to the life of your dearly departed with custom memorial products. Whether you prefer lawn level flush markers or upright family monuments, you can count on us. Check out the designs we have to get started. For more information about our products, you can contact us via phone or email.
Choose Your Design
Customized Memorials for Your Loved Ones
Memories In The Making, Inc. offers a wide variety of memorial sizes and styles to suit every cemetery requirement and family budget. We provide headstones and monuments and offer engraving services for existing memorials. We hope this guide will be helpful in determining which type of memorial you are interested in. Scroll down to view the various options.
View Our Extensive Memorial Catalog & Idea Book
Please feel free to visit our online memorial catalog and Idea Book to browse our extensive catalog of designs that are customized for you and your loved ones. You may also try your hand at designing your own monument with our IDEA BOOK. Should you have further inquiries, feel free to give us a call using the phone number listed on this website.
Create a Unique Memory
Get One-of-a-Kind Memorials
Memories In The Making, Inc. provides headstones, monuments, and memorial engraving to the Chicagoland area. Typically, we operate within a 50-mile radius of Chicago. We believe that the memorial you choose to commemorate the life of your loved one should be as unique and personal as the life that has been lived by them, an everlasting footprint on this earth, as unique as their own fingerprint and the lives that they had touched.
Here you will find various styles and options of memorials that are available for you to choose from. The artwork on these pages quite often can be mixed and matched to create something truly unique and personal.
We offer these designs as a starting point for you to begin creating a unique memory of your loved one.
A memory that will transcend the generations.
Choosing a memorial is simple. There are 3 easy steps
Step 1 - Choose a color (example: Bahama Blue)
Step 2 - Choose a design (example: D-24-53)
Step 3 - Choose your wording (example: Mother, Agnes Cerilli, 1954-2007)
Step 1 – Granite Colors
Memories In The Making, Inc. has a wide variety of granite colors for you to choose from for your headstone, monument, or special project.
American Black -5
Apollo - 5
Bahama Blue - 5
Barre - 3
Blue Pearl - 8
Canadian Pink - 6
Cats Eye - Q
Coral - 2
Dakota - 4
Ebony Black - 6
Elberton - 1
Emerald Pearl - Q
Import - Mahogany
Import - Jet Black
Missouri Red - 3
Royal Red - 6
Tropical Green - Q
Vermillion - 2
Step 2 – Designs
Step 3 – Lettering On Memorials
Memories In The Making, Inc. offers memorial engraving of your existing pre-selected memorial. We have the ability to add final dates and additional wording to your families’ existing memorial at any Chicagoland cemetery. In order to get a quote, please complete the contact form.
Lettering Styles
We offer many styles of lettering when creating a new memorial. We are also capable of matching existing lettering styles. In addition to a variety of fonts, we also offer a variety of techniques for carving lettering into stone. This involves different outline treatments as well as different processes for finishing the stone or panel area around the lettering. Here are some samples that may help you with your selection.
Entrust Your Memorial Needs To Us
No matter what type of memorials you prefer, trust that our team will provide you with special memorial products that reflect the life and personality of your dearly departed. Discuss your needs with us. We will gladly walk you through the best options suited to your requirements. For more details, you can reach us using the phone number or email address listed on this website, or use our convenient contact us page.
Cherish YOUR PET's Memory
Remarkable Pet Memorials
You’ve shared so much together. Happy times. Quiet times. The friendship the two of you have developed over the years simply won’t be forgotten after your animal companion passes away. You’ll want to commemorate that special bond, just as you would any other loved one, with a high-quality memorial from Memories In The Making, Inc.
Our superb collection of pet memorials, crafted of the finest granite and bronze, allows you to select the appropriate marker design, bronze emblem, and inscription message for your beloved pet. We are able to offer you the options of photo ceramics, laser etchings, and bronze bas-relief sculptures all which preserves forever that friendly face.
Order Customized Pet Memorials
Your beloved animal companion deserves the best memorial possible. You know your pet better than anybody else. This is why we make sure to provide you the freedom of choosing the marker design, bronze emblem, and inscription message for your animal companion’s memorial. Learn more about out custom-made pet memorials by calling us using the phone number listed on this website.
Contact us to request our pet brochure.
