The chestnuts are roasting, stockings are hung by the chimney with care, and Jack Frost has just begun nipping at your nose. It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, and that means it’s time to start making a list and checking it twice. The holiday season has arrived, and it’s officially time to send out your Christmas cards.
There are two types of people in this world: Those who finish their cards in October and those who skid over the river and through the woods to get them in the mailbox before Christmas Eve. Whichever category you fall into, once you’ve got the whole family to sit still long enough for festive photos, you’ve still got to figure out exactly what to write in a Christmas card.
The good news is there are as many options as cookies on grandma’s signature platter. Whether you plan to fill your personalized DIY cards with sweet holiday sayings or prefer to go with a funny Christmas joke or pun, our list of the best Merry Christmas wishes will have something that fits the bill. Many of these messages come from Christmas movie quotes and can do double duty as the perfect caption for your wintry Instagram posts. Here, we’ve gathered our favorites.
Funny Christmas Wishes:
- Don we now our ugly sweaters… Let’s party! Happy Holidays!
- Christmas is the only time of year in which one can sit in front of a dead tree and eat candy out of socks. Enjoy!
- Wishing you a white Christmas! (And when you run out of white, just open a bottle of red).
- You’re a gift in my life. And not the kind I’d return for store credit. Merry Christmas!
- A Christmas reminder: Don’t try to borrow any money from elves… they’re always a little short. Have a Merry Christmas!
- Wishing you hope, peace, and lots of Christmas cookies this holiday season!
- They say the best Christmas gifts come from the heart … but cash and gift cards do wonders too! Happy Holidays!
- Remember, Santa is watching. Everything. Yes, even that. Anyway, Merry Christmas!
- Merry Christmas! May your happiness be large and your bills be small.
- This holiday season, let’s make it a point to cherish what’s truly important in our lives: cookies.
Meaningful Christmas Wishes:
- May the Christmas Season bring only happiness and joy to you and your family.
- The gift of love. The gift of peace. The gift of happiness. May all these be yours at Christmas.
- Wishing you a season full of light and laughter for you and your family.
- Best wishes for a joyous Christmas filled with love, happiness, and prosperity!
- May all that is beautiful, meaningful and brings you joy be yours this holiday season and throughout the coming year!
- Merry Christmas! Wishing you all the happiness your holiday can hold!
- May your holidays sparkle with joy and laughter.
- I hope the magic of Christmas fills every corner of your heart and home with joy — now and always.
- Our family wishes you love, joy and peace … today, tomorrow and always.
- May your family have a holiday season that is full of wonderful surprises, treats and nonstop laughter.
Religious Christmas Wishes:
- May your heart be lifted in praise this Christmas for the wonderful gift of Jesus and the joy He brings to our lives.
- Merry Christmas! May God richly bless you throughout the year.
- Jesus is the reason for the season. Merry Christmas!
- May God fill your Yuletide season and all your days with immeasurable prosperity and joy! Merry Christmas!
- Sending prayers and hearty Christmas greetings to you. May you receive the most special of God’s blessings during this Christmas season!
- May you have the gift of faith, the blessing of hope, and the peace of His love at Christmas and always!
- Merry Christmas! I hope you receive one blessing after another this coming year.
- May the Lord grant you and all your loved ones peace, joy, and goodwill.
- Wishing you a season that’s merry and bright with the light of God’s love.
- May God’s blessings be yours this Christmas.
Romantic Christmas Wishes:
- You’re the most magical part of the most wonderful time of the year.
- Your love is the best Christmas gift I could ever receive. Merry Christmas, sweetheart!
- You’re the partridge to my pear tree.
- Christmas is more magical now that you’re in my life!
- Merry Christmas to someone who’s sweeter than a candy cane, warms me up more than a cup of hot cocoa and fills my heart with joy more than the biggest present under the tree!
- The only thing I love more than Christmas is you.
- It’s not what’s under the tree that matters most, it’s who’s around it. Every year I’m so grateful to have you there.
- You put the merry in my Christmas.
- Though we are apart, you are in my heart this Christmas.
- Forget the mistletoe, you can kiss me anytime you like.
Christmas Wishes for Long-Distance Friends:
- Even though we’re apart, I’m sending you a special wish, a holiday hug, and a mistletoe kiss!
- Far apart during this holiday, but totally together in our hearts and minds. Merry Christmas!
- Sending a smile across the miles for a wonderful Christmas!
- I may not be nearby, but you are always in my mind and heart this holiday. Merry Christmas!
- Missing you most during this festive time.
- We may not be together on Christmas morning, but you’re always in my heart.
- I wish we could be together this holiday season, but I’m sending warm wishes your way.
- I’ll miss celebrating with you this Christmas. Eat a few extra cookies for me!
- We may not be able to rock around the Christmas tree together, but I’ll deck the halls in your honor.
- Even though we’re apart, our hearts are together.
Christmas Wishes During a Hard Time:
- May the magic of the Christmas season fill your home with joy and peace. Sending lots of love to your family.
- You’ve had more than your share of challenges this year. Wishing you peace and hope at Christmas and a new year full of better days.
- Sending strength, love, and peace to you this holiday season.
- My love and thoughts are with you during the Christmas season and the promise of hope it brings.
- Hoping that the new year brings you new possibilities.
- Wishing you love and light in this challenging season.
- I know it’s been a hard year for you and your family. I hope the New Year brings better days.
- Our hearts are with you and yours, now and always.
- Sending you hugs this Christmas season. Take some time to care for yourself.
- We know you’re having a difficult time this year. Wishing you strength and peace in these challenging times.
Christmas Wishes Inspired by Quotes:
- May this season find you among those you love, sharing in the twin glories of generosity and gratitude. —Oprah Winfrey
- Christmas is the day that holds all time together. —Alexander Smith
- I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month. —Harlan Miller
- Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand. —Dr. Seuss
- One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas Day. Don’t clean it up too quickly. —Andy Rooney
- Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling. —Edna Ferber
- A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together. —Garrison Keillor
- Christmas isn’t just a day. It’s a frame of mind. —Valentine Davies, Miracle on 34th Street
- Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart … filled it, too, with melody that would last forever. —Bess Streeter Aldrich
- Christmas is not an external event at all, but a piece of one’s home that one carries in one’s heart. —Freya Stark