Best Memorial Wind Chimes (2026): Astarin Review, Prices and Shipping Times

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Best Memorial Wind Chimes for Loss of a Mother, Father, Spouse or Pet

A memorial wind chime is an outdoor chime with a flat sail at the bottom, called the wind catcher, that carries a name, dates, a short message or a photo. Astarin, the brand reviewed on this page, sells 207 memorial wind chime designs, 40 of them for pets, and its personalized memorial chimes start at $25.99. This page matches a chime to the loss, whether a mother, father, husband, wife or pet, and lists what each one costs, how long it takes to arrive, what to engrave on it, and what Astarin will and will not take back.

Are Wind Chimes a Good Sympathy Gift?

Yes. A wind chime is a common sympathy gift because it hangs outside for years, while cut flowers last about a week. It needs no care, it suits a house or an apartment balcony, and it can be engraved with the name of the person who passed.

People who give a wind chime after a death usually mean it as a reminder of the person each time the wind moves it. There is no single official meaning. Grief researchers call keepsakes like this linking objects, meaning things that keep a connection to the person who passed. A 2015 study of 53 bereaved parents, published in Health Psychology, listed linking objects among the ways parents kept that connection (Meert and colleagues, Health Psychology, 2015).

A wind chime works best as a gift in three cases:

• The family has a porch, yard, balcony or garden where it can hang.
• The person who passed spent time outdoors, in a garden, on a porch or near birds.
• You want a gift that arrives after the funeral flowers are gone, one week to one month after the service.

If you need something delivered to the service itself, see the sympathy gifts and funeral flowers directory for same-day delivery, and send the chime to the family home.

Tree of Life Memorial Wind Chime: Best Memorial Wind Chime Gift (Ships in 3 to 5 Days)

The Astarin Tree of Life chime has five gold aluminum tubes, a 36 inch overall length, and a green wood sail with a gold tree of life carved into it. It has no engraving, which is why it ships in 1 to 3 business days and arrives in 3 to 5 days. It is rated 4.98 out of 5 on 90 reviews.

It comes three ways: the chime alone for $54.99, in a green gift box for $62.99, or in a black and gold gift box for $75.99. The extra $8 or $21 pays for the box only. The chime inside is the same.

The green and gold colors are earth tones that suit a wood porch, a cedar fence or a garden bed. This chime fits a person who gardened, kept houseplants or planted trees in the yard. It is also the chime to choose when a group of coworkers or neighbors is sending one gift together, because nothing personal has to be collected or spelled correctly before you order. Astarin states the chime is made from weather-resistant materials, with an outdoor waterproof finish on the wood hanging cord.

Two limits apply. It ships to the 48 contiguous states only, and Astarin does not add a gift message to chimes without engraving. Send a card or a text so the family knows who sent it.

Best for: a sympathy gift that must arrive this week, a group gift from an office or a neighborhood, and anyone who loved a garden.

View the Tree of Life Wind Chime on Astarin

Listen to the Wind Personalized Memorial Wind Chime for Loss of a Mother

The Astarin Listen to the Wind chime is 35 inches long, with six aluminum tubes and a 7 inch metal leaf sail that carries her name and years. You choose gold, black or bronze tubes. It costs $63.99 and is rated 4.82 out of 5 on 71 reviews.

The leaf sail has a green patina finish, the look of weathered copper. It fits the mother or grandmother who spent mornings in her garden or evenings on a porch swing. The patina and bronze tubes suit a farmhouse, cottage or coastal home. Gold tubes stand out against dark siding, and black tubes match black railings and light fixtures. Astarin states the parts are coated by hand to resist rain, wind and sun.

This chime is often bought by adult children for a parent’s home, and by a friend who wants to send a gift that names the mother, not only the family. The first Mother’s Day after the loss is a common time to give it. Memorial Merits has a separate guide for getting through Mother’s Day after the loss of a mother.

Best for: the loss of a mother or grandmother, a garden or porch, and a gift from adult children or a close friend.

View the Listen to the Wind Chime on Astarin

Photo Memorial Wind Chime for Loss of a Father

The Astarin photo memorial chime prints a photo you upload on the sail, with his name and years beside it. It is 36 inches long with six heavy aluminum tubes in a matte black powder coat, and the longest tube is 16 inches, among the deepest notes on this page. It costs $85.99 and is rated 4.90 out of 5 on 10 reviews.

A photo does what a line of text cannot. This chime fits the father who fished, hunted, coached a team or served in the military, where one picture of him in his cap or on his boat says more than a name. Matte black suits a modern house, a brick house, or a porch with black railings.

Choose a photo where his face is clear and well lit. A photo cropped from a group picture can print blurry on a small sail. Astarin’s design team may email you if the photo needs changes, so watch your inbox for 24 hours after you order.

Best for: the loss of a father or grandfather, a man known for a hobby or his service, and a modern or brick home.

View the Photo Memorial Wind Chime on Astarin

Dove Memorial Wind Chime for Loss of a Husband or Wife

The Astarin dove chime has five gold aluminum tubes and a wood leaf sail with a dove, engraved with a name and years. It comes in 30 inches for $55.99 or 36 inches for $75.99. The 36 inch size has a 15 inch longest tube for a deeper note. It is rated 5.00 out of 5 on 18 reviews.

This chime fits a husband or wife after a long marriage. You can engrave the wedding year beside the years of life, or both first names. The gold and green colors suit the backyard or patio a couple shared for years. The 30 inch size fits a smaller patio or a condo balcony.

If you are buying for your own spouse, this is also a chime you can hang where you both used to sit.

Best for: the loss of a husband or wife, a gift for a widow or widower, and a shared patio or backyard.

View the Dove Memorial Wind Chime on Astarin

Cross Memorial Wind Chime: Christian Sympathy Gift

The Astarin cross chime has a cross on the sail with the name and years engraved, and six heavy black powder-coated aluminum tubes. The 36 inch size costs $85.99 and the 42 inch size costs $125.99. The 36 inch chime has a 16 inch longest tube. It is rated 5.00 out of 5 on 8 reviews.

This chime fits a person whose faith was central to their life, and a family that will want the cross in view. It suits a church garden, a prayer corner in the yard, or a front porch. The 42 inch size is the largest chime on this page, which makes it a fit for a large yard or a church memorial garden where a small chime would be hard to hear.

Best for: a Christian sympathy gift, a church memorial garden, and a family that wants the cross in view.

View the Cross Memorial Wind Chime on Astarin

Hummingbird Memorial Wind Chime: Sympathy Gift Under $50

The Astarin hummingbird chime costs $45.99 and is 25 inches long, with four square bronze aluminum tubes and a 3.2 inch cast iron leaf sail with a name and years. You can choose a hummingbird, a butterfly or a dragonfly on the sail. It is rated 4.77 out of 5 on 26 reviews.

This chime fits the person who filled the feeders every morning, watched the birds from the kitchen window, or kept a butterfly garden. Its short length fits a balcony, an apartment patio or a small porch, and four short tubes give a lighter, higher sound than the long chimes above. It is the lowest-priced engraved chime on this page.

Best for: a sympathy gift under $50, a bird or butterfly lover, and an apartment balcony or small patio.

View the Hummingbird Memorial Wind Chime on Astarin

How Much Do Memorial Wind Chimes Cost?

Most memorial wind chimes cost $35 to $125. Engraving, photo printing, longer tubes and a gift box each raise the price. On September 25, 2026, Memorial Merits read the full product list of five stores that sell memorial wind chimes:

Prices for the chimes on this page, each linked to its product page:

The code mm10off takes 10% off any of these at checkout on astarinchimes.com. It does not work on Astarin listings on Amazon or Walmart.

How Long Does a Memorial Wind Chime Take to Ship?

A memorial wind chime without engraving takes 3 to 5 days. An engraved one takes longer, because Astarin makes it after you order. Astarin’s stated times, read September 25, 2026:

If the service is this week, send a chime without engraving to the family now, and order the engraved chime to arrive later. If the service is two or more weeks away, choose DHL on the engraved chime. If you are sending the chime as a sympathy gift with no service date, free shipping is enough.

What to Write on a Memorial Wind Chime

Most people engrave the full name, the years of birth and passing, and one short line. Short text engraves larger and is easier to read from a few feet away. You type the text into the personalization boxes on the Astarin product page.

Write the years with the word “to” or a small dot between them, the way the examples above show. A nickname the family used every day often means more than a formal name.

How to Check an Engraved Wind Chime Order Before You Pay

Astarin does not accept returns on engraved chimes, so check every detail before you pay. Only a defect, damage in shipping or a wrong item is replaced, and you must report it within 7 days of delivery. Use these steps on the product page.

1. Choose the size and tube color first. The price changes with the size, and the color cannot be changed after the chime is made.
2. Type the name exactly as the family spells it. Check with a family member, an obituary or a funeral program for middle names, initials and nicknames.
3. Type the dates. Check the birth year and the year of passing against the obituary or funeral program.
4. Read the message line out loud, one word at a time, to catch missing or doubled words.
5. Upload the photo, if the chime has one. Use a clear, well-lit photo with the face forward.
6. Enter the shipping address. For a gift, use the family’s address and check the house number and ZIP code.
7. Choose free shipping or DHL based on the date you need it (see the shipping table above).
8. Pay, then watch your email, including the spam folder, for 24 hours. Astarin’s design team may email to confirm the layout. If you do not reply within 24 hours, the chime ships as it is.

What to Do if an Engraved Chime Arrives Wrong or Damaged

Take photos of the chime and the box. Email the photos and your order number to [email protected] within 7 days of delivery. Astarin replaces or refunds a defective, damaged or incorrect chime, and refunds go back to your original payment method within 5 to 7 business days after Astarin receives a returned item.

Which Memorial Wind Chime Size Sounds Deepest?

The longest chimes with the longest tubes sound deepest. A longer, heavier tube rings at a lower note and keeps ringing longer. Short chimes with short tubes sound lighter and higher. Tube lengths from Astarin’s product pages:

Before you choose, press play on the sound recording at the top of the Astarin product page. Every chime on this page has one.

Match the size to the space. A 25 to 30 inch chime fits a balcony, a window or a small porch. A 35 to 36 inch chime fits a porch eave or a tree branch in an average yard. A 42 inch chime fits a large yard or a church garden. Deep tones carry, so on a small lot close to neighbors a mid-size chime is the safer choice.

Where to Hang a Memorial Wind Chime

Hang a memorial wind chime where the family will see it and hear it every day: a porch eave, a tree branch near the house, a pergola, or a hook outside a kitchen or bedroom window. It needs open air around it to move, with a few inches of space so the tubes do not hit a wall or post.

• Porch or patio: use a screw-in ceiling hook rated for more than the chime’s weight. The Tree of Life chime weighs 2.42 pounds.
• Tree: choose a branch at least as thick as your wrist, and loop the hanging cord so it does not rub the bark.
• Memorial garden: a shepherd’s hook next to a bench, a planted tree or a stone gives the chime a spot of its own.
• Indoors: near a window or a ceiling fan, where moving air reaches it.
• High winds: take the chime down before a strong storm to protect the cord and the sail.

Can You Hang a Wind Chime at a Grave?

Check with the cemetery office first. Many cemeteries limit what can be placed at a grave. The VA National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, for example, lists wind chimes among the items not permitted on graves (VA National Cemetery Administration).

Pet Memorial Wind Chimes for a Dog or Cat

A pet memorial wind chime is a wind chime engraved with a pet’s name, years, paw print or photo. Astarin sells 40 pet memorial chimes, and its most-reviewed memorial chime of any kind is a pet chime, rated 5.00 out of 5 on 119 reviews. A pet chime is a common sympathy gift for a friend or coworker who lost a dog or cat, and a common way to mark the spot in the yard where a dog liked to lie in the sun.

Pet memorial chimes on this page cost $35.99 to $62.99. For more ways to remember a pet, see the Memorial Merits pet loss and memorial guide, the pet memorial services directory for urns and pet cremation, and what to give someone who lost a pet, where a chime is one option among several. If the loss is recent and hard to talk about, the Cornell University Pet Loss Support hotline is staffed by veterinary students trained by grief counselors.

Dog and Cat Memorial Wind Chime With Paw Print

The Astarin paw print pet chime is 30 inches long, engraved with the pet’s name and years beside a paw print, and costs $62.99. The black version has six tubes with a 14.2 inch longest tube. The silver version has five tubes with a 13.3 inch longest tube. It is rated 5.00 out of 5 on 119 reviews, the most reviews of any Astarin memorial chime.

Dog Memorial Wind Chime

This chime fits the dog who slept at the foot of the bed, met you at the door or walked the same route every evening. Black tubes suit a dark porch or a fence line. Hang it over the spot where the dog liked to lie, by the back door, or in a dog memorial garden next to a planted shrub or a stone with the dog’s name.

Cat Memorial Wind Chime

For a cat, silver tubes and the lighter sound of five tubes suit a sunny window, since many cats spent their days at one. Hang it inside by that window, or outside where the cat watched the birds. The paw print works for a cat as well as a dog.

Best for: the loss of a dog or cat, a pet sympathy gift from a friend or coworker, and a dog memorial garden or cat memorial garden.

View the Paw Print Pet Memorial Wind Chime on Astarin

Pet Memorial Wind Chime With Photo

The Astarin pet photo chime prints a photo you upload on the sail, with the pet’s name and years. It is 30 inches long: silver with five tubes for $58.99, or black with six tubes for $62.99. It is rated 4.97 out of 5 on 29 reviews.

Memorial Wind Chime for a Horse, Bird, Rabbit or Other Pet

Astarin does not make a horse, bird or rabbit design. The photo chime covers them, because the sail carries any photo you send, so a horse in its pasture, a parrot on a shoulder or a rabbit in the grass gets a chime of its own. It also fits a dog or cat when the family wants the pet’s face rather than a paw print. For a horse, hang it on the barn, at the paddock gate or by the tack room.

Best for: a horse, bird, rabbit or any pet without its own design, and a family that wants the pet’s face on the chime.

View the Pet Photo Memorial Wind Chime on Astarin

Pet Memorial Wind Chime Gift Box (Ships in 3 to 5 Days)

The Astarin pet memorial gift box chime is 30 inches long with six black anodized aluminum tubes and a paw print sail, and costs $35.99. It has no engraving, so it ships in 1 to 3 business days and arrives in 3 to 5 days, within the 48 contiguous states. It is rated 4.94 out of 5 on 18 reviews.

This is the chime to send when a friend or coworker has just lost a pet and you want it to arrive this week. It needs no name or photo from the family, so you do not have to ask them anything. It is also the lowest-priced chime on this page. Add a card or a text with the pet’s name, since Astarin does not include a gift message on chimes without engraving.

Where to Hang a Pet Memorial Wind Chime

Hang it where the pet spent its time: by the back door, over a favorite napping spot, or in a pet memorial garden. For a dog memorial garden, plant a shrub or small tree and hang the chime from a shepherd’s hook beside it. For a cat memorial garden, catnip and a stone with the cat’s name under a window work well, with the chime above.

Best for: a pet sympathy gift that must arrive this week, a gift for a coworker, and a budget under $40.

View the Pet Memorial Gift Box Chime on Astarin

Astarin Wind Chimes Review: Pros, Cons and Return Policy

Astarin is an online wind chime store at astarinchimes.com. Its contact page lists the company as Emake Inc., 799 S University Blvd, Denver, Colorado. It also sells on Amazon, Walmart and eBay. Its own store shows 4.9 out of 5 stars on 2,219 customer reviews collected through Judge.me, a review app that asks buyers for a review after delivery. Those are store-collected reviews, not independent testing.

Pros

• 207 memorial designs, including designs for a mother, father, spouse, Christian families, dogs and cats.
• A median memorial chime price of $55.99, below the median at most memorial gift stores we checked.
• A sound recording at the top of every product page.
• Coated aluminum parts that Astarin states resist water, wind and sun.

Cons

• Engraved chimes take 7 to 15 days in transit by free shipping, after 3 to 5 business days to make and ship.
• Chimes without engraving ship to the 48 contiguous states only and cannot include a gift message.
• Support is by email only, on GMT+8 hours, Monday to Friday.

Astarin return policy (read from the Astarin refund policy page, September 26, 2026):

• Chimes without engraving: return within 30 days, in the original packaging and condition, for a refund minus shipping costs.
• Engraved or personalized chimes: not returnable.
• Defective, damaged or incorrect items, engraved or not: email [email protected] within 7 days of delivery for a replacement or refund.
• You pay return shipping unless the mistake was Astarin’s. Refunds go to the original payment method within 5 to 7 business days after Astarin receives the item.

Astarin coupon code. The code mm10off takes 10% off at checkout on astarinchimes.com.

From the Founder

I chose to include Astarin Memorial Wind Chimes in Memorial Merits’ vetted directory for a multitude of reasons. Memorialization and remembrance are something very special and sacred to me, and I genuinely appreciate special and creative ways to pay tribute to and preserve the memory of the ones we hold close. Like many of the other products and services we carry in our directory, memorial wind chimes were unique and new to me, and I immediately fell in love with the concept.

One thing that really stood out about Astarin is their 207 memorial designs, which allow you to match the chime to the person, like a cross for someone of deep faith, a paw print for the dog who slept at the foot of the bed, or a photo sail for the father who was never without his fishing cap. Another is price. The chimes on this page run anywhere from $36 to $86 in their standard sizes, while the larger memorial gift stores sit closer to $90 to $120.

Another thing that makes Astarin stand out from the rest is their reviews. Astarin carries 4.9 stars across 2,219 reviews, and for every item featured on this page, you will find a set of reviews that speaks for itself. The final detail that really impressed me was providing sound for their customers. Every product page has a recording at the top, so you can hear the chime before you buy it, which I felt proved a level of commitment and care to their customers that is hard to match.

One thing to know as you consider buying a memorial wind chime is that the engraved chimes take one to two weeks to arrive due to the customized work. If the service is this week, and you really want a chime present at the service, send a gift-box chime that ships in 3 to 5 days, and order the engraved one to follow. This allows you to have a chime early while you wait for your engraved one to arrive.

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Gabriel Killian

Founder, Memorial Merits

For keepsakes made with cremation ashes, see the Spirit Pieces cremation jewelry review, which includes a glass suncatcher that hangs in a window next to a chime. Every vetted keepsake partner is listed in the memorial and remembrance directory.

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About the Author Gabriel Killian Founder, Memorial Merits · US Navy Certified Instructor · #1 in Journal Writing on Amazon Memorial Merits began out of personal loss, and out of finding that almost nothing available at the time gave a family a straight answer on cost, rights, or paperwork. Gabriel Killian built it to be that answer, and writes from lived experience rather than theory. Every partner named on this site is vetted before it is recommended, and every price is verified against the provider’s own checkout. He is the author of the Legacy Journal series, ranked #1 in Journal Writing and 5-star rated on Amazon. His work in the end-of-life space has been published by Sociology Group, the Animal Hospice Group and Memoria Sky, cited by Google AI Overviews, and adapted for training use by U.S. Army CASCOM. Verified researcher, ORCID 0009-0008-0751-6129. As Featured In CBS · ABC · Fox · AP · Business Life Magazine · The New York Telegraph · Insider Weekly · Tampa Bay Observer · Benzinga · SociologyGroup.com · Animal Hospice Group · MemoriaSky.com Member in the Spotlight, Home Funeral Alliance · Cake.com Professional Directory · Cited by Google AI Overviews Memorial Merits Amazon Author Page LinkedIn