A monument design is a series of decisions, made in an order that keeps you from having to undo them. You do not need a video to follow it. You need the cemetery's rules, a form the lot allows, and words you are willing to leave on the stone.
Begin with the cemetery. Ask what monument forms your section allows, and the largest size that lot will take. An upright, a flat marker, and a slant marker are different answers to that question. Design the stone the cemetery can accept. A drawing of a stone they will refuse is not progress.
Choose the form next, then the granite color. The color changes how lettering and any portrait will read. Dark polished granite gives engraved letters and a laser portrait the most contrast. Gray granite is quieter and is accepted in many cemeteries that want a consistent look. Look at a sample or a clear photograph in daylight if you can. A screen shifts color.
Write the inscription before you decorate it. The legal name, the dates the family will use, and the relationship line come first. Then a short epitaph, if you want one. Then an emblem or a portrait. Spelling is checked by a person, not assumed. If more than one relative must agree, agree before the design is ordered. Changing a name after the stone is cut is a different job from changing it on the screen.
On this site, Personalize is where that inscription is entered. You add the name, the dates, and the epitaph, choose the granite, and see the inscription on the stone. The monument is produced as shown. There is not a second, separate proof mailed later for that personalized monument. Look carefully before you order. If you want help deciding, write to the store through the contact page and describe the cemetery and the words you have in mind.
Artwork such as a ceramic portrait is a different order from the monument inscription. The portrait is collected after that order, and a proof of the portrait is sent before it is made. Do not assume the portrait and the stone share one approval step.
Nothing on this page sets a date for when the finished stone will be set. The cemetery review, the granite, and the work on the face all belong to your order. Ask for timing when you order, for your cemetery and your design.