Compared, honestly
GatheringUs vs I Miss You Memorial
GatheringUs and I Miss You Memorial overlap the least of any pair on this site. GatheringUs — part of Keeper Memorials since 2022 — runs facilitated virtual and hybrid memorial services, with published packages from $750 to $2,300 and a Keeper memorial page included; its own memorial pages are migrating to mykeeper.com. We are the page itself — free, family-moderated, permanent — with the service details, RSVP and stream link on it. One is a service you hire; the other is a place you keep.
Every price verified October 2026 from GatheringUs's own pages and ours. We make one of these two services; the sources are at the foot, and when GatheringUs is the better choice, this page says so.
Side by side
Verified October 2026 · sources below
| GatheringUs | I Miss You Memorial | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Facilitated virtual and hybrid memorial events on Zoom: program planning, facilitation, technical support. The memorial-page half now lives on Keeper — GatheringUs pages are migrating to mykeeper.com | The tribute page itself — their story, photographs, approved memories — with the service details, RSVP and stream link on it |
| The event | Their team structures the program, begins the service, guides presenters, plays slideshows and music, and staffs a tech hotline for guests | You run the call yourselves — our guide to a virtual memorial service walks through it — and the page holds the plan |
| Pricing | Published: Livestream Only $750 (up to 100 guests) · Core Experience $1,400 weekday to $1,850 hybrid weekend · Premium Experience $2,100–$2,300 (up to 500 guests). Each includes a Keeper Plus memorial page | On the page, in writing: a complete tribute page free, Plus $197 once |
| Permanence | In their words, the memorial remains online, a lasting communal space; after migration, Keeper's promise applies — no profile is deleted | In writing: every tribute stays online, backed up and funded for generations, and everything is exportable |
| Accounts | Posting or donating requires a GatheringUs account | No account is needed to visit, RSVP or leave a memory |
What GatheringUs does well
When no one in the family can carry the event — scattered time zones, a service on Zoom with eighty guests, elders who will need a phone number to call when the screen goes dark — a facilitated service is worth real money. GatheringUs plans the program with you, runs the room, cues the slideshows and music, and puts a human tech hotline behind the guests. They say more than 100,000 people have gathered through them. That is a service, in the oldest sense, and we do not offer it.
One 2026 change to know: Keeper Memorials acquired GatheringUs, and its memorial pages are migrating to mykeeper.com — the events continue, and migrated families receive Keeper Plus at no charge. The page half of their product is becoming a Keeper page, which is why the fuller page comparison lives beside Keeper's.
Where the two part ways
Hire GatheringUs for the hour; keep the page for the years. Their product ends when the event ends — the gathering was the point. Ours begins before the service and is still there at the tenth anniversary: the RSVP beforehand, the live-stream link during, the recording and the memory wall after.
A family planning a facilitated virtual service could honestly use both — though their packages now include a Keeper Plus memorial page, so compare that page with ours before deciding where the remembering lives. A family that prefers this page can still put the stream link and RSVP here at no cost, and for a family that can run its own call, our virtual memorial service guide and a free page carry the whole day.
When GatheringUs is the better choice
- You want a professional to plan and run the virtual or hybrid service — published packages from $750 for a livestream to $2,300 for a large hybrid gathering
- The gathering is large, scattered, and nobody in the family can host it
- Cultural or religious elements need an experienced hand woven through a virtual program
When ours is
- You want the permanent page — moderated, exportable, funded to stay — not only the event
- The family can run its own call: the guide, the RSVP and the stream link on the page cost nothing
- No account is needed here to RSVP or leave a memory — posting there requires one
- You want the remembering to keep growing after the event ends
See both before deciding
The fairest test is ten minutes with each: open gatheringus.com and our living example page, and picture your person in both. The rest of the comparison is on the full comparison page · or beside ForeverMissed, Ever Loved, Keeper.
Questions, answered plainly
What does GatheringUs cost?
Their published packages, verified October 2026: Livestream Only $750 (up to 100 guests); Core Experience $1,400 on a weekday to $1,850 for a hybrid weekend service; Premium Experience $2,100 to $2,300 with up to 500 guests. Each includes a Keeper Plus memorial page. The free memorial pages themselves are migrating to mykeeper.com following the Keeper acquisition.
Can we hold a virtual memorial service without hiring anyone?
Yes. A call link, one person who is not the chief mourner running the practical parts, and a page holding the details and RSVPs is the whole recipe — our virtual memorial service guide walks through it step by step, and the page is free.
Could a family use GatheringUs and I Miss You Memorial together?
Honestly, yes: their team runs the facilitated event — their packages include a Keeper memorial page — and if the family prefers this page as the one link guests keep, the details and RSVP before, the stream during, and the recording and memory wall after all live here free.
Sources
- GatheringUs — virtual and hybrid memorial services (planning, facilitation, tech support) · https://www.gatheringus.com/
- GatheringUs — virtual funeral service packages and published prices · https://events.gatheringus.com/pages/virtualfuneralservices
- GatheringUs — about: the Keeper acquisition and the memorial-page migration (2026 update) · https://events.gatheringus.com/pages/about-us
