I'm sad for your loss but it sounds like it was a really good ceremony.

I completely agree with you about religious funerals. They just feel strange and wrong to me, especially if the person whose funeral it is wasn't very, or even at all, religious. I've told my relatives that on no account must my funeral be religious in any way. I've been an atheist since I was a kid, it would be WRONG. I really ought to write down what kind of memorial ceremony I would like but it's the kind of thing that's it's very hard to actually sit down and do.