Christmas card messages: 60 holiday wishes for everyone on your list

The cards are bought (or the e-card is open), the list is long, and you've written “Merry Christmas!” forty times. If you want your holiday cards to feel a little more personal this year, this list will help: 60 Christmas card messages for family, friends, coworkers and everyone in between.

Christmas messages for family

• Merry Christmas to the people who make every year feel like home. Love you all.
• Wishing our wonderful family a Christmas full of laughter, good food and too many chocolates.
• Being together is the best present. Merry Christmas, with all our love.
• Thank you for every Christmas memory, past and still to come. We love you.
• To Mom and Dad: thank you for making every Christmas magical. Merry Christmas!
• Merry Christmas to my favorite sibling (don't tell the others).
• Grandma and Grandpa, Christmas isn't Christmas without your stories. Love you both.
• Wishing you a Christmas as warm as your kitchen on Christmas morning.
• May your home be filled with joy, your table with good food and your heart with love. Merry Christmas.
• Missing you this Christmas and sending all our love across the miles.

Christmas messages for friends

• Merry Christmas to the friend who's family by choice. Thank you for another amazing year.
• Wishing you a holiday season full of warmth, cheer and very long naps.
• Thank you for all the laughs this year. Here's to many more in the next one. Merry Christmas!
• Merry Christmas! I hope Santa brings you everything you asked for (and I hope you were good).
• Cheers to cozy nights, festive lights and friends like you. Happy holidays!
• You're one of my favorite gifts in life. Merry Christmas, friend.
• Wishing you peace, joy and all the best things this Christmas and in the new year.
• Let's make next year our best yet. Merry Christmas and happy new year!
• Even though we're far apart this year, you're in my thoughts. Merry Christmas!
• Sending you a big holiday hug and an even bigger thank you for being you.

Christmas messages for your partner

• All I want for Christmas is you. (I mean it. Every year.)
• My favorite Christmas tradition is spending it with you. Merry Christmas, my love.
• Thank you for making this the warmest, happiest year of my life. Merry Christmas.
• Under the mistletoe or anywhere else, I'd choose you. Merry Christmas!
• You make every season feel like the holidays. I love you.
• Merry Christmas to the one who makes my heart glow brighter than the tree.

Christmas messages for coworkers, clients and your boss

Keep work cards warm, inclusive and brief. “Happy holidays” and “Season's greetings” work well if you're not sure who celebrates what.

• Wishing you a joyful holiday season and a happy, healthy new year.
• Thank you for being such a great team member this year. Happy holidays!
• Season's greetings and best wishes for the year ahead.
• It's been a pleasure working with you this year. Enjoy a well-deserved break!
• Thank you for your support and partnership. Wishing you a wonderful holiday season.
• Happy holidays from all of us. We look forward to working with you in the new year.
• Wishing you peace, rest and plenty of good cheer this holiday season.
• Thanks for your leadership and patience this year. Merry Christmas and happy new year!
• May your holidays be relaxing and your inbox be empty. Happy holidays!
• Cheers to a fantastic year and an even better one ahead. Season's greetings!

Funny Christmas messages

• Merry Christmas! May your Wi-Fi be strong and your relatives be quiet.
• I asked Santa for a friend like you. Turns out he already delivered. Merry Christmas!
• Wishing you a Christmas so fun that even the Grinch would want to join.
• This card entitles you to one guilt-free extra slice of Christmas pudding.
• Merry Christmas! Remember: calories consumed in December don't count.
• Here's to stretchy pants, terrible Christmas jumpers and too much cheese.
• Dear Santa, before I explain, how much do you already know?
• Our family Christmas photo was a disaster, but our love for you is picture-perfect.

Religious Christmas messages

• May the love and peace of Christ fill your heart this Christmas and always.
• Wishing you the hope, peace, joy and love of Christmas.
• Celebrating the birth of our Savior with you. Merry Christmas and God bless.
• May the light of the Christmas star guide you through the new year.
• Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace. Wishing you a blessed Christmas.
• Praying that this Christmas brings you closer to the true meaning of the season.

New year wishes to add to your card

• Here's to a new year full of fresh starts and happy surprises.
• May the new year bring you health, happiness and lots of reasons to smile.
• Wishing you twelve months of joy, fifty-two weeks of fun and 365 days of love.
• Cheers to new adventures and old friends in the year ahead.
• May next year be everything you hope for and more.
• Happy new year! Let's make it a good one.
• New year, same us. Happy new year, with love.
• Wishing you a calm, kind and wonderful new year.
• Out with the old, in with the brand-new adventures. Happy new year!
• Thank you for making this year special. Here's to the next one.

When to send Christmas cards

For paper cards, the usual advice is to post them in the first two weeks of December, and earlier for international mail, which can take several weeks around the holidays. Digital Christmas cards remove the deadline entirely: they arrive instantly, so you can send one on Christmas Eve, or on Christmas morning itself.

Make a Christmas card with your family photos

A card with your family in it is the one people keep on the fridge. Cherrywish Christmas e-cards put your photos into a warm holiday scene: your family in a frosted window in Home for Christmas, four favorite memories hung as ornaments in Our Year on the Tree, or a personal holiday letter in A Little Christmas Letter.

• Make one card for everyone, publish it once, and share the same link with your whole list.
• Or personalize a few for the people closest to you, with a line just for them.
• Download it as an image to post on social media or print at home.