You know there are two ways to SAVE FACE.
Pay extras/out-of-work actors to be seat fillers. Thousands of them. They will show the appreciate grief and sob and cry.
If they are too cheap to do that then
Hold a private ceremony behind closed doors with no cameras allowed. Say it is because the family is grieving and want privacy at this time of their grief.
The extravagant showoff who loves big crowds would like to have 100,000 or 1 billion show up. How much would that cost?
But the cheapskate deadbeat stiffer would like the cheap way out.