The Benefits of Working with a Locally Trusted Monument Company

Buying a monument isn't like buying anything else. It's a purchase you make once, often while you're grieving, and it has to last for generations. Where you buy it matters more than most families realize.

A local monument company knows the cemeteries you're working with. Every cemetery in the region has its own rules on size, material, foundation depth, and what's allowed on the stone, and those rules vary from one parish or municipal cemetery to the next. We've been navigating them for decades, so we know what will be approved before you fall in love with a design that won't be.

A local company also understands what our climate does to stone. Northeast Pennsylvania puts memorials through freeze-thaw cycles, heavy snow, and wet spring ground year after year. A monument set on a poor foundation will lean, settle, or crack. We build durable foundations and set every memorial ourselves with our own equipment, which means no third-party crew and no one passing the blame if something shifts.

Then there's the part that doesn't show up on an invoice. You can come stand in front of the granite, run your hand across a finish, and compare colors in person rather than squinting at a photo online. If you need to change the wording a week later, you call someone in Blakely, not a call center. And years from now, when it's time to add a date or letter a second name, we're still here.

Monument Services in Scranton, Wilkes-Barre & Northeast PA

Families across the Lackawanna and Wyoming Valleys come to us for far more than a single stone. Our services include:

• Traditional upright monuments in granite from quarries around the world, in a full range of colors, shapes, and finishes
• Custom design and personalization, including lettering, emblems, religious symbols, and family names
• Hand carving and etching, from delicate detail work to full laser and glass art etchings that capture a portrait or scene
• Bronze memorials and markers, including bronze and gold leaf lettering
• Cemetery lettering, adding a date or a second name to an existing family monument
• Foundation work and professional installation, performed by our own crew with our own equipment
• Cleaning and restoration of older monuments that have weathered over the years
• Monument planning ahead of time, so your family isn't left guessing. Our preplanning page explains how it works
• At-need guidance for families who have recently lost someone and need help now. Start with our at-need monuments page

If you haven't chosen a cemetery plot yet, our cemetery plot checklist walks you through the questions to ask before you buy, including which monument styles the cemetery will actually permit.

Why Families Trust Monuments by Parise

Our family has served this area's grieving families since 1941. In 1997, after hearing again and again from families we cared for at funerals that their monument-buying experience had let them down, we opened a full-service monument company to do it better. Before we sold a single memorial, we trained in every part of the craft under a specialist with more than 40 years in the trade.

That approach shows up in the work. We offer one of the region's largest selections of granite and bronze sourced from around the world. Our craftsmen handle the cutting, carving, and lettering themselves. We set and seal every memorial on a foundation we build, because a beautiful monument installed poorly is a problem waiting to happen. And we stand behind all of it with a written guarantee: your granite is free from defects and won't chip, crack, or disintegrate, and if any part ever proves defective in material or workmanship, we replace it at no cost to you or your heirs.

We're also proud to host the area's only all-inclusive indoor monument showroom. It opened in April 2016 in Blakely, and it means you can browse and compare memorials in a warm, quiet space in January just as easily as in June, rather than walking a snow-covered lot.

Most of all, we understand what families are carrying when they walk through our door. There's no pressure here, no rushing, and no upselling. Just patient guidance and options at prices that respect your budget. You can learn more about our family and our guarantee, or read what local families have said on our testimonials page.

Proudly Serving Scranton, Wilkes-Barre & Surrounding Communities

We create and set traditional monuments for families throughout Northeast Pennsylvania, including Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Blakely, Carbondale, Pittston, Dickson City, Olyphant, Jessup, Archbald, Dunmore, Clarks Summit, Peckville, Throop, Taylor, Old Forge, Moosic, Avoca, Duryea, Forest City, Honesdale, Tunkhannock, and the surrounding areas.

This region's cemeteries carry a lot of history. Many families here are placing a memorial in the same parish or hillside cemetery where their grandparents and great-grandparents rest, often on plots purchased generations ago. That history brings its own considerations, from matching the granite of an older family monument to working within the tighter layouts of the valley's oldest burial grounds. Having worked in these cemeteries for decades, we know how to make a new memorial sit naturally alongside the old.

Our three locations keep help close to home: our Blakely showroom at 1975 Scranton Carbondale Highway, our Carbondale display at 89 Farview Street, and our Clifford display at 18 Airport Road.

Contact Us For Traditional Monuments in Northeast PA Today

Choosing a monument is one of the last things you'll do for someone you love, and you deserve the time and care to get it right. Whether you know exactly what you want or you're just starting to look, the team at Monuments By Parise will walk you through every option, answer every question, and never rush the decision.



Call Monuments By Parise at 570-382-3558 or contact us online today to learn more about traditional monuments in Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, and Northeast Pennsylvania.