Christmas is a special time of year where family and friends reconnect over shared wishes and Christmas messages. Many families look forward to receiving their Christmas greetings and family photos and display or hang them for the holiday season. For that reason it’s important to take the time to craft your message carefully for your loved ones. If you’re looking for Christmas writing inspiration, we’ve collected a list of perfect Christmas card messages and wishes for your own holiday greetings.
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Christmas cards are primarily made up of the following sections: the greeting, a personal message, a chosen holiday quote or message, your signed name, and family photos. All of these pieces should be carefully chosen and heartfelt. If you’re struggling to find the right message or sentiment, we’ve found some great Christmas wishes for any occasion or relationship. Browse our choices below:
Christmas is a time of tradition, so classic christmas card messages are perfect for any season’s greetings. For specific inspiration, look to our favorite classics below.
Merry Christmas Wishes
Sometimes a simple “Merry Christmas” is the most elegant message we can offer to our loved ones. For messages that follow this kind and simply crafted sentiment, look to the following examples:
• ‘Tis the season to wish one another joy and love and peace. Merry Christmas.
• Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
• Wishing you a very Merry Christmas.
• The gift of love. The gift of peace. The gift of happiness. May all these be yours at Christmas.
• May Santa Claus bring everything you wished for. Merry Christmas!
• Here’s to a year of blessings and beyond. Have a Merry Christmas!
Happy Holidays Messages
For those who prefer general Holiday messages and wishes, here are a few classic greetings you can use:
• Best wishes for Happy Holidays and a wonderful New Year.
• Warmest greetings of this festive season and best wishes for happiness this New Year.
• Wishing you a magical and blissful holiday!
• All the best to everyone this Holiday Season!
• May everything on your wishlist come true. Happy Holidays!
• Here’s to a wonderful Holiday season and a Happy New Year!
Or, for more examples, check out our resource on holiday cards messages and wishes.
Find the right Christian Christmas card messages for friends and family with the list of greetings below:
• May your Christmas be filled with the true miracles and meaning of this Merry time.
• May the joy and peace of Christmas be with you all through the New Year. Wishing you a season of blessings from heaven above.
• May your world be filled with warmth and good cheer this Holy season, we wish you a joy-filled Christmas.
• A silent night, a star above, a blessed gift of hope and love. A Merry Christmas to you and your whole family.
• I wish you the unconditional love of God in all the dreams of your heart and your everyday prayers. Merry Christmas.
• Praying you have a wonderful Christmas filled with moments you’ll always remember.
• May God bless you with a festive, loving and peaceful celebration this Christmas and all throughout the year.
Your friends are a true Christmas gift, so let them know how special they are in your Christmas letter. You can find some of our favorite examples below:
• For your Christmas time I wish you many blessings, much happiness, and even more love.
• Having you as my friend makes me feel as if it is Christmas every day. Merry Christmas.
• Christmas is a feeling true friends share with laughter and love to show that they care.
• I hope you’re all making this a Christmas to remember!
• So grateful to have a friend like you at Christmas and all year long.
• Your friendship and your love is the best Christmas gift that I’ve gotten. Merry Christmas.
• It’s friends like you that make this season so special and magical.
• Wishing you peace, joy, and all the best this wonderful holiday has to offer. May this incredible time of giving and spending time with family bring you the joy that lasts throughout the year.
Christmas if the best time of year for spending time with your loved ones, so make sure your Christmas card reflects that sentiment. Check out our examples for Christmas messages for family below:
• There is no greater gift this festive season than spending time with family all around the Christmas tree.
• You’re all so important to us. Stay safe and stay happy this holiday season!
• To all the people who are dear to me, I wish all of you nothing but the joy and happiness that this Christmas brings!
• Having family like you is the best Christmas gift there ever could be.
• At Christmas and always, what a blessing you are.
• Thinking of you with lots of love at Christmas.
• Grateful to be blessed with such a wonderful family. Merry Christmas!
• Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.
Teachers have given much of their time this year to your children, and Christmas is a great time to let them know how much you appreciate them. For message inspiration, look to our examples below:
• May this holiday season be full of surprises and cheers, simply because you deserve the best.
• Season’s Greetings from the family! Hope you all end the year on a bright note.
• Best wishes for you and your family this Christmas. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
• Have a cheerful, holly, jolly, and a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
• Thank you so much for all that you’ve done this year. Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!
• Happy Holidays. Wishing you every happiness this holiday season and throughout the coming year.
For professional settings, you should use more reserved, but still heartfelt, greetings. We’ve collected a list perfect for any office, whether it’s for a coworker, employee, or manager.
Employee Christmas Card Messages
• Good tidings we bear to you and your family! May we all have a Merry Christmas.
• Happy Holidays and all the best to you in the year to come.
• Holiday time and all the time, I so appreciate the great work you do.
• Peace, love and harmony we wish to you and may love fill your home with blessings too. Happy Holidays.
• We hope your holidays will be filled with joy and laughter through the New Year. Merry Christmas!
Messages For Coworker
• Wishing you a holiday season full of fun, and a new year filled with prosperity.
• It’s a pleasure to work with you and a joy to wish you a merry Christmas!
• Hoping that the new year brings you new opportunities and new possibilities.
• Enjoy your well deserved rest and time with family. Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year!
Messages For Boss
• Merry Christmas from all of us! Here’s to a season of success and harmony.
• We’re all hoping that you have a fantastic holiday season and a fabulous New Year.
• Warmest wishes for a happy holiday season.
• In this loveliest and happiest of seasons, may you find many reasons to celebrate. Have a wonderful Christmas!
• Wishing you a festive holiday season and a very happy new year.
Sometimes a quote conveys your holiday sentiment best. In that case, we’ve found a few favorites for the holiday season that you might love for your own Christmas cards.
• Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day. by Helen Steiner Rice
• We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill
• I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. Charles Dickens
• Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. Norman Vincent Peale
• Christmas is the day that holds all time together. Alexander Smith
• I’m dreaming of a white Christmas, With every Christmas card I write, May your days be merry and bright, And may all your Christmases be white. Irving Berlin
• Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas . . . perhaps . . .means a little bit more!’ Dr Seuss
• Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts. Janice Maeditere
• Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind. Mary Ellen Chase
• Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. Hamilton Wright Mabie
• Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles. Unknown
• From Home to home, and heart to heart, from one place to another. The warmth and joy of Christmas, brings us closer to each other. Emily Matthews
Christmas cards should be signed by hand in either blue or black ink. Even if the rest of your card is printed, you should personally sign the card. If you’re looking for ideas on closing remarks, find examples here:
• Best wishes
• With love
• With all our love
• Happy Holidays
• Merry Christmas
• Much Love
• Hugs and kisses
• XOXO
• All the best
• Warmly
• Take care
• Yours truly
• Sincerely
• Cheers
• Lots of love
• God bless
• Your friend
Do your best to choose a sign off that is appropriate for the recipient. For example, if it’s for a professional relationship, “Take care” or “Happy Holidays” will do. For friends and family, “Much Love” and “Yours Truly” are fine.
If you’re looking for additional Christmas card resources you can read our piece on What to Write in a Christmas Card. Or you can browse our Christmas card collection to find the right card and stationary for you and your family.
• With each Nativity scene I see, I am reminded of the miraculous event that occurred many years ago. And the miracles that happen today, may we all have the eyes to see them not only during this season but all year long.
• May you have a Christmas filled with dreams come true, wonder, and love.
Christmas Message for Fathers
• Dad, I don't tell you enough how loved you are. You are always there no matter what. Thank you, my Father, for being the one who loves me and cares no matter what the day. So at this time of year let me especially say, I love you and thank you for always being there.
• When I think of Santa I think of you - jolly, happy, and giving all the year thru. So my hope this Christmas for you my Dad is that it is one that will make you glad.
• May the gathering of family and the laughter of friends remind you of how much you are cherished and loved not just at Christmas but the whole year through.
• Dad the pressures and cares of everyday life are with you throughout the year. But this Christmas season I hope you experience the gifts of peace, love, and happiness from those who love you dear.
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Hong Kong
Plans for Christmas? I haven’t decided yet for sure, but I can tell you one thing—I’ll be spending it with my friends, not my family.
Last year, four of my closest buddies and I walked around the neighborhood of Mong Kok, where there were Christmas carolers on the street. Then we went to have some Cantonese hot pot, a simmering pot of broth that you dip meat, fish balls and vegetables into that was perfect for the winter. Then we went to a karaoke bar, where we sang all night, played some drinking games and talked.
When I got home the sun had almost risen.
Yes, we celebrate Christmas in Hong Kong, as does most of east Asia. But unlike in the West, you’re absolutely not obliged to hang out with your family, and most young people choose to spend the day, and the night, with friends. Some people even rent out rooms and throw big parties, the more the merrier. If you are Christian, you might go to church, but you still wind up with your friends afterwards.
There’s always a special Christmas dinner, but it’s not what westerners usually think of—there’s no home-cooked turkey or ham, and no plum pudding. Instead it is likely to be at a restaurant, from a buffet at a high-end hotel to a casual dinner at a yum cha (dim sum) place.
If you have a partner, then just as in South Korea or Japan, you are expected to spend Christmas together. There are many Cantonese pop songs about how sad it is to be single on the day, the most popular being Lonely Christmas by singer Eason Chan:
“Merry, merry Christmas
Lonely, lonely Christmas
In the waves of people I wanted to confess
But jokes were all you wanted to hear.”
You can still hear people singing the above chorus in karaoke boxes or at gatherings on Christmas, even though it was released more than 10 years ago.
While in the West very few shops are open on Christmas day, Hong Kong’s businesses basically run as usual, and many even prolong their hours or offer festive discounts. Even the city’s public transport extends its service hours to take the party-goers home. Except for the large crowds that you will certainly meet on the streets, there really is little reason to not go out on Christmas.
If you’re worried about heading home for Christmas to political arguments and family stress, Hong Kong can seem pretty enviable.
But a month or so after Christmas is the Chinese Lunar New Year, and THAT will be a whole different story. I will have to visit my all of my relatives, and face the inevitable litany of uncomfortable questions and confrontations, including “Why don’t you have a girlfriend?” “So, how much do people in journalism earn?” and “You didn’t go to the Hong Kong protests, did you?”
Just the thought of it is already exhausting. Oh well, you win some and you lose some. You can’t avoid your family forever, after all.
Christmas Wishes for Friends: It's time to share your love with your friends this holiday season through text messages and Christmas cards. Christmas is the time to remember your near and dear ones and share the goodness of your heart with them. Don’t forget to wish your friends this Christmas. Write them a beautiful Christmas wish with a cute present. Often it becomes difficult for us to write a hearty Christmas message for our friends. To help you, we have done the work and presenting the best compilation of Christmas wishes for your friends. Choose any of them and send it to your friend.
Christmas Wishes for Friends
May peace and joy be upon you this Christmas. Merry Christmas, my friend.
May you be showered with love, happiness, and joy this Christmas. Merry Christmas, dear.
My biggest Christmas present is having you by my side, my friend. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Christmas is all about spending time with family and friends. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Christmas is the time to be showered with love and blessing. I hope Santa will bring the best for you because you deserve it. Wishing you Merry Christmas!
Wishing you another year full of happiness and blessings. May peace be upon you. Merry Christmas.
Christmas is the best time to share love and happiness. May the best season be yours and your family.
The joy of this holy occasion will surely fill your life with eternal happiness. May the happiness stays with you forever. Merry Christmas my friend!
I remember how I prayed in my childhood for having a best friend in life. I didn’t know my wish would come true someday. Merry Christmas my friend!
Christmas becomes extra special when it is celebrated with the dear ones, and you definitely belong to my favorite category. I hope you have fun this holiday season. Merry Christmas.
Having you as my friend is the most fantastic present in my life. Merry Christmas, my friend.
May God takes all your sadness and fill your life with some colors this Christmas. Merry Christmas, dear friend.
I’m glad to have you in this Christmas. Wishing you Merry Christmas. May you have a happy year.
As the Jingle bells swing by and ring – May God takes away all your sadness and let some wings to your happiness which will eventually make you fly. Wish you a Merry Christmas.
You are miles apart, but distance never bothered our friendship. I love you, and I pray to God to fulfill all your wishes and prayers. Wishing you a Merry Christmas.
May the holy Christmas night bring warmth, happiness, and well-being into your life. Let the lights of Christmas guide you to success and prosperity and bring peace in your life.
Christmas is knocking at the door. May all the blessings of this Christmas be yours. May you feel happiness all year round. Many many best wishes to you. Advance Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas to my friend who knows all the secrets of mine and knows very well what I like and what I don’t! You are the biggest blessing of my life!
Best friends are no less than a family. You are one of my best friends in life. I love you just as much as I love my family. Merry Christmas!
Friends always love no matter how many flaws you have in you. I’m wishing you joy and blessing in your life my friend.
Let the lights of Christmas guide you to success and prosperity and bring happiness and peace to your life! Merry Christmas my friend!
Christmas is all about caring, sharing, and eating many delicious foods! May all your wishes come true as soon as possible. Merry Christmas!
Wishing you a joyous, colorful, and love-filled Christmas. May this Christmas bring happiness and peace to you. All my best wishes to you this Christmas. Merry Christmas in advance, friend.
Merry Christmas Messages For Friend
Wishing you a happy, healthy and colorful life this Christmas. Enjoy every moment with your family, friends, and your loved ones. Merry Christmas!
Friendship cannot be bought by money. I am lucky that I am rich with friends like you. This makes celebrating Christmas more meaningful!
Where could I find a best friend like you? Not at the North Pole, that’s for sure. This year know that the best gift in my life is a best friend like you. Merry Christmas.
What have you wished for this Christmas? As for me, I wished our friendship to last forever! Merry Christmas!
There is nothing much more amazing than spending time with you in the holiday season and talk about our life and fun things. May this Christmas be a memorable one! Have a happy new year.
Christmas is all about spending time with friends and family and creating memories that will last forever. Let's celebrate this wonderful occasion this season. Merry Christmas my dear!
A time to say “GoodBye” to all sorrows and to embrace happiness. A time to woo near and dear ones, with gifts and wishes. Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to the person who knows all of my secrets, knows the things that make me happy or sad. I love you, my friend!
Christmas carols everywhere, gift-giving here and there. Christmas is a merry-making season that will be a lot special If spent with a friend like you!
Santa is in the hospital and the gift production has stopped, he almost died laughing when I told him you were good this year. Merry Christmas Buddy!
It is the spirit of brotherhood in the cheer of Christmas that makes it so glorious. Brotherliness is but the manifestation of the spirit of Christ. Merry Christmas!
No flowers, No balloons, No cute graphics, No happy cartoons, Just a simple Christmas wish straight from my heart, May the love in our heart never ever depart! Merry Christmas!
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose. Thank you for allowing me to choose you. Wishing you a very special Christmas!
Looking at the stars, I pray that my friends and I will stay happily together from this day onward. Merry Christmas to you all!
Heap on the wood!-the wind is chill, But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
You are the proof of how good God is. You have saved me from loneliness just like how Jesus saved us. Have a very Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas wishes can be said easily, but for each one meant, like the Grinch, your heart can grow. May your heart grow three sizes this Christmas.
Christmas Wishes for Best Friend
May all your holiday wishes come true. May Lord bless you forever and always. Wishing you a Merry Christmas from my family to yours. Have lots of fun dear best friend.
You are the best person to build a snowman with or go to on a winter wonderland. I wish you the best in this holiday season, mate. Merry Christmas and a happy new year.
This Christmas, I want to thank you for always being there for me when I needed you the most. I wish all the happiness knock at your door at this festival. Merry Christmas, best friend.
May you enjoy every moment of this Christmas. Sending my warmest greetings to you on this festival. I hope you have a nice Christmas. Merry Christmas, friend.
There is nothing more enjoyable than celebrating the holy festival with the best friend. Let’s make some beautiful memories this Christmas. Merry Christmas, bestie.
Merry Christmas to my best friend. I feel so grateful to have a friend like you. Our friendship is as magical as this lovely festival. May your life be filled with boundless happiness.
May God always protect you from every harm and keeps you happy and healthy. Celebrating Christmas with you makes the festival more colorful. Merry Christmas, my friend.
May your Christmas be merry and holidays be happy. May every wish of your heart is granted by the merciful God. Merry Christmas, my dear best friend. Hugs and kisses.
This holiday season I would like to raise a toast to our friendship and the epic bond that we share. Thanks for sticking by. I love you so much. Wish you a Merry Christmas, dear.
May this Christmas bring you much joy and happiness and may your New Year be merry and bright. Thanks for being such a supportive friend! Wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy new year.
Christmas Wishes for Friends Far Away
To my friends who are far away, I love you all and hope you have a splendid Christmas this season. Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas! There is no distance too far between friends, for friendship gives wings to the heart. Missing you this Christmas!
It has been many years since you have been far away. The holy festival reminds me of you, and it aches my heart that you are not here. Sending my warm wishes through this message.
No matter how far you are, you are always close to my heart. I miss you badly this Christmas. It makes me nostalgic when I think of our last Christmas. Merry Christmas, my dear.
I miss you more in this colourful festival. I cannot stop thinking about you. I feel so sorry that we are so far apart. I hope you have an amazing Christmas. Merry Christmas, friend.
Though you are far, you are always close to my heart… Wishing you a wonderful Christmas blessed with happiness and success… Miss, you load my friend.
We are miles apart but our hearts are strongly connected…. Such is our friendship that no distance can impact. Sending you love and Christmas cheer!
You are very far from me my friend, but I am thinking of you this Christmas. Sending your way warm wishes and love through this text. Merry Christmas.
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. Wishing you a Merry Christmas!
Funny Christmas Wishes for Friends
Christmas is tremendous as we buy gifts for this year’s holiday with next year’s money. Wishing you season's eating and a bloody good New Year! Merry Christmas!
Christmas is the magical time when your parents will go around telling your embarrassing childhood stories to everyone possible, so enjoy this holiday season! Merry Christmas.
I’ll swim through an ocean to save you. Ok, not an ocean but a pool definitely. But not too deep though because you know… I don’t want to wet my hair. Merry Christmas!
Christmas season is the only time of the year when you should rather give more attention to your friends and family than to yourself. I’m counting on you to make my Christmas magical!
I hope this Christmas God bless you with a slim figure so that you look a little smarter. I hope Santa won’t cancel my present for being a friend of yours. Merry Christmas, my friend.
This Christmas, eat as many sweets as you want but don’t forget to brush your teeth. Remember last Christmas? No? Me neither. Merry Christmas, my friend.
Christmas means all about having special present and gifts. But who needs a Christmas gift when they have “me” in their life. Merry Christmas, dear friend. Enjoy yourself.
Christmas is fun until you don’t have to clean everything after the party. I hope your Christmas rocks and full of wonders. Happy X-mas, my dear friend.
Christmas is a competition to see which gives out first; your money or your feet. So, best of luck in this holiday season. I hope your Christmas is the “M” word! (Merry)
May Santa always stop at your house and bring you special gifts that you have been waiting for. Merry Christmas, mate. Enjoy the holiday seasons.
Finally found the true meaning of Xmas, it’s for those people who can’t spell Christmas! I hope your Christmas celebration is out of the world. Enjoy the holiday season and have lots of fun.
Merry Christmas! Do you know that Friendship is like a turd? No matter where you are or what you’re doing, a bit of it is always there inside you.
Merry Christmas to a Special Friend
Wishing our Friends a Joyous Christmas filled with Peace, Love, and Prosperity. Best Wishes for a Healthy New Year!
This is the season to wish one another love, joy, and peace. These are my utmost wishes for you, Merry Christmas my dear best friend.
Merry Christmas to my best friend, the person who puts up with all my faults and loves me anyway. Oh and happy new year too.
Christmas is in the air! Wishing you all the joy, hope and wonderful bear, enjoy the fun of the season. Merry Christmas!
To my best friend: nothing could ever undersell my enthusiasm for you, not even Christmas itself. Have a merry one.
Many years ago, I wished that Santa will give me a true friend. Then, I met you and we became best friends. Thank you for your friendship.
I love you as my friend. I wish that for this season, may you be the same person that you are. May you be blessed with more people that will appreciate the real friend in you!
Christmas Quotes For Friends
You could never give me a better Christmas gift than our friendship. I am confident that I'll continue to get that gift this year.
Having you as my friend makes me feel as if it is Christmas every day. The warmth and comfort that comes with this season reminds me of you.
Having you in my life as my friend makes me feel as if it is Christmas every day. I am so grateful to God for your existence. Merry Christmas to my friend who puts up with all my faults and loves me unconditionally anyway.
May God’s blessing showered upon you and your family throughout the year. Merry Christmas to you.
May you feel the love I have you at this festival. Merry Christmas. May you have a fantastic Christmas.
Your family is lucky to have you. I am also lucky to have you as a friend. May God always protect you and love you. May your happiness and delight extend. May you feel them in the whole new year. You, deserve it, Merry Christmas, dear!
Best friends are the apple pie of desserts. They already beat out all the competition. Merry Christmas.
You better not shout, you better not pout. You should be nice, you should stay wise because Santa is coming to see you! Merry Christmas!
May you always find yourself around the Christmas tree, singing carols with the best of friends.
Most of my friends are normal, sane, cultured, decent, intellectual, and well-behaved persons… I just want to thank you for breaking the monotony! Merry Christmas!
Learn to live harmoniously, both in song and interactions. Christmas is a time to cherish the friends you love and the understanding between kindred souls.
What I am most grateful for this Christmas are my great friends like you. You are already the perfect gift!
Watch the movies you love, sing the carols from your youth, and remember to remember each minute and each hour to keep. Merry Christmas Friend!
I feel like I’m Santa Claus because everything I want to do is giving the most astonishing gifts to the best people. Merry Christmas, buddy!
Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year. Send some heart touching Christmas wishes to your best friend or even your special friend on this remarkable occasion of the year. Remember that the one who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. Celebrate the true meaning of Christmas and embrace the warmth of your closest ones on this occasion of love and happiness. Send some Merry Christmas wishes to your dear friends. Send your blessings and best wishes to your friend this Christmas and add more color to their celebration. Christmas is all about cherishing peace and kindness, being plenteous in mercy. The real spirit of Christmas is sharing the joy and happiness with everyone associated with you – so don’t miss this amazing chance. Wishing you and your family and friends Merry Christmas and a very happy new year on behalf of us. Hope you have a great holiday season.