Christmas is a special time of year where family and friends reconnect over shared wishes and Christmas messages. Throughout the hustle and bustle of the year, many families look forward to receiving their Christmas greetings, family photos, and displaying or hanging them for the holiday season for all to admire. For that reason, it’s important to think about the relationship you have with your recipient, and take the time to craft your message carefully for your loved ones. If you’re looking for Christmas writing inspiration to help you get in the spirit, we’ve collected a list of the perfect Christmas card messages, religious Christmas card messages, and Christmas card examples 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 to express your sentiments, a chosen holiday quote or message, your signed name, and of course, your favorite 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 wishes to write in your Christmas cards 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. No matter how much or how little you say, you can guarantee your friends and family will appreciate the thought behind their greeting card. For specific Christmas card examples for inspiration, look to our favorite classics below to help you get started.
Merry Christmas Wishes
Sometimes a simple "Merry Christmas" is the most elegant message we can offer to our loved ones. The holiday season is all about expressing your love with Christmas wishes for loved ones. These can be short Christmas wishes for friends, or personal Christmas messages to your family members. 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, you can always use simple messages to portray the sincerest happy holiday message possible. Simple and classic holiday greetings are the best when they come from the heart and can serve as a message sent from the bottom of your heart. 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.
Planning a blended family wedding is a unique process as the dynamics of each new family varies. Use this collection of prayers, readings, vows and quotes to inspire your joyous celebration of joining two separate families into one.
Prayers and Readings for a Blended Family Wedding Ceremony
• "May they nurture their family with devotion, see their children grow in body, mind and spirit,
and come at last to the end of their lives with hearts content and in joyful anticipation of heaven."
- Source: Church of England Prayer Book
• "Lord, in your providence, you have provided the family as a place where people can experience love, learn important life lessons and find unequaled encouragement. May your design be reflected in this new family. I pray that you would unite and bind this family together; even in togetherness, may there be space to be individuals. Help each person to love, respect and encourage others within the family. May the care and hospitality within the family be extended to those outside; that others might see your presence."
- Chelle, "Letters from the Heart: Prayer For A Blended Family"
• The secret to blending families is there is no secret. It’s scary and awesome and ragged and perfect and always changing. Love and laugh hard. Try again tomorrow. But that’s life advice, right?"
- Mir Kamin
• "Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs; the ones who accept you for who you are. The ones who would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what."
-Unknown
Wedding Vows for a Blended Family
Including children in the exchange of wedding vows is often a sensitive decision. Before choosing how deeply they are involved, it is important that you to talk to the kids about their feelings. If they want to participate, the entire family should decide together which promises they should make to each other.
Vows to Spouse: Today, as we join our lives as husband and wife, we also become a family. Just as I vow to love and support you for the rest of my days, I also pledge to support your children in achieving their dreams, to give them guidance when needed and to freely give them my unconditional love. Together, we will build the foundation of our family.
Vows to Children: I promise, from this day forward, to encourage you, love you, guide you and support you along whatever paths you take in this life. I vow to be honest, fair and respectful, offering you my unwavering affection and friendship.
Vows from Children: I promise to support your marriage, and accept my responsibility as a member of this family.
Step-Family Wedding Quotes for Invitations, Programs, and Guest Favors
• "Two families joined by love."
- Unknown
• "A circle of strength and love. Our family, founded on faith, joined in love, kept by God."
- Source: Household Words
• "Together we make one beautiful family."
- Unknown
• "Having a place to go is a home. Having someone to love is a family. Having both is a blessing."
- Donna Hedges
• "Family means putting your arms each other and being there."
- Barbara Bush
• "We’re all a little weird, and life’s a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love."
- Dr. Seuss
In 1985 the Children’s Wish Program was founded as a not-for-profit charity and is the longest running wish program in Central Florida. Children’s Wish was created to provide hope and a once in a lifetime experience to children fighting a life-threatening illness. New Hope for Kids Wishes for Kids Program continues the legacy by providing wishes for children that other organizations, in the Central Florida area, are not able to serve.
Wishes for Kids grants wishes to children with life-threatening illnesses who have not yet reached their 19th birthday nor had a wish previously granted. A life-threatening illness is defined by New Hope for Kids as any illness which will in all likelihood shorten the child’s full life expectancy.
Although the Wishes for Kids Program is not able to cure the life-threatening illnesses of their wish children, it is proud to grant wishes and go beyond the wish – offering support, resources and community for these special families. New Hope for Kids Wishes for Kids Program uses it's resources to lighten the burden for the wish child and their families strives to improve the quality of time remaining in the child’s life.
New Hope for Kids Wish program is unique for the following reasons:
• FOCUS
Unlike other wish-granting organizations, New Hope for Kids Wish Program is not affiliated with a national organization, but is an independent, locally based charity that focuses on Central Florida children. Occasionally a wish is granted out of state, but 90% or more are granted right here. That means the money that is raised by Central Florida community members goes right back into our economy. New Hope for Kids does not receive funds from State or Federal reimbursement and is not a United Way agency.
• FOLLOW-UP
Because most of our wish recipients live in the vicinity, New Hope for Kids is able to provide additional services and support beyond the wish itself. We call ourselves the New Hope Kids Family, because we join together for regular activities to have fun, share resources and provide emotional support. These activities are designed to prevent the isolation and sense of hopelessness that often accompanies grief and illness. Families help each other while forming lasting relationships.
• FLEXIBILITY
New Hope for Kids is able to meet a wide spectrum of needs through wishes and community resources. We follow guidelines, but consider each wish on a case-by-case basis to ensure that the child’s best interests are being met.
When New Hope for Kids grants a wish to a child, it can last a lifetime! We take the wish one step further through attention to special needs, resource information, the New Hope for Kids "family" and nine annual enjoyable events.
For more information or if you know of a child who would benefit from a wish, please contact:
Over 1,600 Wishes Granted!
The memories we have of the trip we took with our son shortly before his death are cherished by our family more than words can say. By granting his wish, you gave us all a gift.
When my daughter received her wish, it was like the cancer had to take a back seat to her joy. What a blessing New Hope for Kids has been to our entire family!
Our Wish Program needs your support! Consider becoming a Wish Partner:
Organizations, corporations and individuals are encouraged to sponsor a wish for a child. Anyone can be a part through fundraising, donations, or hosting a wish. This makes the event more special for the child and family, but also allows everyone involved the opportunity to enjoy making a child’s wish come true!