You Dont Know How Many Times I Wish

When it comes to signing birthday cards, at that place are people who accept no problem picking up a pen and adding a warm, personal message. And then there are those of usa who sometimes have trouble getting across "Happy Birthday." Wherever you fall on that inspiration spectrum, we accept ideas to assistance you lot write a more than meaningful message in your card.

In this guide, Hallmark writers offer birthday-message tips and inspiring examples. Just click on the category that interests you below to become directly to the birthday wishes you demand. Or feel gratuitous to read the whole guide and mix and match until you feel like your birthday message has just the correct vibe. We hope our tips help with the next birthday card y'all sign…and many more!

What to Write in a Birthday Card

• Happy Altogether Wishes
• Milestone Birthdays
• Funny Birthday Wishes
• Belated
• For Mom
• For Dad
• For a Friend
• For a Kid
• For a Spouse or Significant Other
• For a Family Fellow member
• Complicated Relationships
• Tough Times
• Professional Relationships
• Signing a Group Card
• Warm Closings

Happy Birthday Wishes

When the card has already said it all or you just feel like keeping things brusque and sweet, a few brusque, sweetness words might be the way to get. Here are some ideas for adding a lilliputian extra warmth and personality to your mighty little message.

Examples

• "Happy, Happy Birthday, [Nina]!"
•  "I hope y'all get to do something fun to celebrate!"
• "You deserve everything happy. Wishing y'all that all yr long!"
• "[Aaron], promise you take a happy [27th]! Love ya!"
• "Happy Birthday to a strong and bright girl who volition turn the earth around!"
• "Gil, Warmest wishes for a happy birthday."
• "Hope today'southward filled with all your favorite guilty pleasures!"
• "Devonte, promise you make your [25th] a birthday to call up!"
• "Go forth from this altogether and prosper in your [ukulele playing]!"
• "[Carolina], you are living your all-time life! And this year it really shows."
• "Another yr older, and you just go on getting stronger, wiser, funnier and more than amazing!"
• "[Aliyah], Happy Birthday to one of my favorite people in the history of ever."
• "[Elana], cheers for being hither, for beingness y'all."
• "Warmest wishes and love on your birthday and always!"
• "I see y'all out here looking like time is standing still! Happy Birthday."
• "Be safe, have fun, take pictures, and savor every infinitesimal of this exciting time in your life!"
• "[Daria], and then grateful God put you on this earth and in my life."
• "Wishing you a happy altogether and a twelvemonth that's blessed."
• "Keep vibin' and thrivin', Queen! Here's to some other blessed birthday."
• "#Slaying! On your birthday and every other day, besides. Happy Birthday, Beauty."
• ¡Feliz Cumpleaños! Que seas muy feliz, no solo hoy, sino todos los días de tu vida.

Writing tip: I Hallmark author said she chooses her cards very advisedly for each altogether person so that she doesn't take to add much in the way of a personal message. In other words, it's fine to let the printed message and design practice near of the talking for you. Even professional writers do it!

Milestone Birthdays

The milestone birthday person might not wake up feeling like this birthday is especially special or dissimilar from whatever other. Then, it's your job to let him or her know what a large deal it is to take a nice, round-number birthday!

Examples

• "[l] never looked so not bad!"
• "Happy Birthday, [Marcus]! Now that you've arrived here, [forty] volition never exist the same again!"
• "Turning [60] is big! Peculiarly when it's someone like yous, who has made the most of each twelvemonth and made such a positive departure for the people in your life."
• "[Tía], you are [50] years of fun, laughter and love. Te quiero mucho!"
• "[30] is the perfect age. You're sometime enough to beget the good stuff and yet immature enough to enjoy it!"
• "Happy [90th] Altogether, [Nana Betty]! Today, we're celebrating the amazing [woman] you are, honoring the life you've lived and, merely like always, loving yous so much!"
• "Happy Altogether, Bae! Look who's making [40] await fly!"
• Hoy es una ocasión muy especial. Hoy cumples [fifty] años, y celebramos el regalo que es tu vida. ¡Muchas felicidades!

Writing tip: Ages sixteen, eighteen, 21, 30, 40, l, lx, 65, 70, 75, eighty, 85, ninety, 95 and 100 are traditionally considered milestones. Cards specific to these birthdays will characteristic the age number prominently in their design, but y'all can make any card a milestone card (or any birthday a milestone birthday) by writing that shiny new age number somewhere in your personal message.

Also go on in mind that milestone birthdays vary by civilisation. Thirteen is considered a milestone altogether for Jewish boys who become a bar mitzvah. Jewish girls are celebrated when they become a bat mitzvah at 12 or 13. Quinceañeras, when young girls plow 15 and begin to enter womanhood, are milestone birthdays in Latinx culture. And in some eastern Asian cultures, similar in Red china and Korea, the start 100 days of a child'southward life is cause for huge celebration, as is the first birthday.

Funny Altogether Wishes

Sharing a laugh in a funny birthday card is a great way to personalize a card for someone y'all know well. Wisecracks about getting older, jokes near over-indulging, gags about gifts (or the lack thereof)—all are good possibilities for funny messages.

Examples

• "Happy birthday to my favorite sometime [punk rocker]!" (Or: hippie, goth, Valley Daughter, grunge rocker)
• "From 1 of your favorite bad influences" (Added afterwards the bill of fare's printed "Happy Birthday")
• "Hope it's happier than me at a [shoe auction]!" (or: spa, bar, coffee store, beach.)
• "Y'all become to be the center of attending today! Tomorrow it's back to me."
• "Have a [martini] for me! Or two!" (Or: substitute recipient's favorite drinkable.)"
• "I think this is the year you become a pony! JK. That'southward never."
• "Happy birthday to you lot and your cat! (I know how the cat hates to be left out.)"
• "How does information technology feel to exist living proof that Blackness don't crevice?"
• "To quote Shakespeare: 'Party thine ass off!'"
• "Dibs on the presents y'all don't similar!"
• "You totally don't look like crap at all!"
• "I hope all your wishes come truthful, even the weird ones."
• "Sorry there's no money in hither."
• "Please stop crumbling so gracefully. It's getting kind of boring and anticipated."
• "Take a great day, y'all old geezer! (Takes ane to know one, right?)"
• "We all know you're only showing up to evidence out on your birthday! And we all cosign."
• "Father Time texted. He but CANNOT with you."
• ¡Feliz Cumpleaños a alguien increíble, divertido, inteligente… Bueno, creo que ya fueron muchos piropos, ¿no crees? ¡Felicidades!

Writing Tip: Endeavour to sound like you do when you lot're talking. Like, if you say "like" all the time, write "like" a lot. It'south OK and information technology's, like, more personal and the person tin kind of hear you talking and from there, you can refer to something funny that happened and they'll laugh because, like, it totally reminds them of when the funny thing happened!

Belated

Late actually is better than never! If life, retention lapse or alien abduction has interfered with the timely delivery of your card, send information technology anyway. Yous tin can include a sincere or humorous amends…or just frame information technology as your way of extending the altogether fun!

Examples

• "So sorry these birthday wishes are late reaching y'all. I hope it was happy!"
• "Happy Birthday…a lilliputian late!"
• "You're receiving this NOW and non on your Bodily birthday, because I am extremely thoughtful and wanted to be certain the celebration of You was not limited to simply i twenty-four hour period. That is so nice of me, right? Well, you are worth it."
• "At least my Happy Birthday text was on time. That counts for something, right? ☺Happy Belated Altogether!"
• "I don't know where my mind was, but I forgot your birthday…until at present. At least this way I'll stand up out from the crowd when I tell you lot you're amazing and awesome. Have a bang-up yr!"
• "This birthday wish is not tardily. It's just well-aged/well-seasoned."
• "We all have to await for some of the best things in life—similar a birthday menu from a sister who picked the perfect ane for y'all and and so left it sitting on the counter adjacent to the stamps."
• Un poco tarde, pero espero que te la hayas pasado muy bien en tu cumpleaños. Te deseo lo mejor.

Writing tip: Cards made specifically for belated birthdays are practiced for when you remember the birthday later on the fact. However, if yous already take the card but but didn't get it delivered on time, stick with what y'all've got. Y'all can mention its lateness in your personal message—or not. It'due south really your call.

For a Friend

Sometimes y'all simply want to tell someone, "Cheers for being a skilful friend." A altogether carte is a great style to do just that. (And nosotros've got fifty-fifty more birthday wishes for even more friends here.)

Examples

• "Happy Birthday to a friend I couldn't live without!"
• "In case I don't tell you oftentimes enough, I really appreciate your friendship. And I'grand so grateful for all you bring to my life!"
• "If life were a sitcom, y'all'd be the witty, glamorous friend and I'd be the dorky sidekick. And I don't mind that at all. I promise you have a GREAT altogether."
• "Gettin' old ain't for babies. They tin can't handle this much fun!"
• "Girl, age can't handle your hotness! Happy Altogether, Friend."
• "Information technology just occurred to me that nosotros really are becoming Former friends. So glad we are."
• "Dearest yous, my sweetness friend. Happy Altogether."
• "In my soul, I telephone call y'all sister. Happy Altogether to a phenomenal woman."
• "Hope every piddling piece of this day is skilful, Man."
• ¡Feliz Cumpleaños, Amiga! ¡Que vengan muchos más! ¡Te quiero mucho!

even more than ideas for altogether wishes for friends.

Writing tip: If you've chosen a blank or just-for-fun card merely considering y'all know your friend would like information technology, you tin can easily make information technology a altogether card past mentioning birthday somewhere in your personal message. Friendship is flexible similar that!

For Mom

What yous write to your mother on her birthday will depend on the kind of relationship the two of you share. In general, love, appreciation, and upbeat wishes are a good bet. If she's got a healthy sense of sense of humor, feel free to make her laugh. You can always keep it light ane year, and go more heartfelt the next.

Examples

• "Happy Altogether, with heartfelt thanks and lots of love, to my wise, wonderful, one-and-just Mom."
• "You're the best, Mom. Love you."
• "Wishing a beautiful 24-hour interval for my beautiful mama."
• "The more time goes by, the more grateful I am to have you for my mother."
• "Hope your birthday brings some fourth dimension to relax and remember how much yous're loved by family, friends and community."
• "I don't say it enough, but it's ever true: I dear you, and I experience so lucky to telephone call you lot my mom."
• "For all the days you lot've fabricated happy for our family unit…all the means you make us grinning…happy birthday with lots of love."
• "Mama, on your birthday, jubilant your forcefulness, your passion for life and the loving way y'all bring modify into the world."
• "Wish I could be at that place to gloat with you, Mom. Have fun! Miss you!"
• "Happy Birthday from your favorite! (I probably don't even need to sign my name subsequently that, exercise I?)"
• "Mami, Happy Birthday to y'all, the angel of all our hearts."
• "With dearest from the reason for most of your gray hairs."
• "Happy Birthday, Mom. I hope everything about today reminds you how loved and cherished you are."
• Mamá, que tengas un día tan hermoso como tú, y que este nuevo año esté lleno de mucho amor, alegría y bendiciones. ¡Feliz Cumpleaños!

Desire even more than birthday message ideas for Mom? Cheque out this article with more than 100 ideas just for her, including options for stepmoms, mother-in-laws and more!

Writing Tip: Sharing a birthday memory can be a fun thought for mom, too: "I nonetheless call up y'all all dressed up to get out for your 40th birthday. I thought I had the prettiest mom in the world. I still do."

For Dad

Love, thanks, and warm wishes make good birthday letters for dad, as well. Over again, let your human relationship be your guide, and write from the heart.

Examples

• "To my hero…my potent and loving daddy."
• "Altogether and every day, information technology means so much to take a great Dad similar y'all."
• "I really got lucky when I got you for my Dad."
• "You've ever been a swell father, and you've become a real friend, besides. I love that…and I love y'all, Baba."
• "For lessons you lot've taught…For days y'all've saved…For everything…Thanks, Dad."
• "I've always been proud of the smart, honest, proficient man yous are—and so very proud to be your son."
• "Daddy, today the cookout is in your honor. And, yes. You can all the same season the meat."
• "You're more than a dad. You're the greatest human I know."
• "Happy Altogether, Dad! Hope the sun is shining, and the fish are bitter!"
• "I hope you get a pigsty-in-i today. If not, just lie and tell me you did anyway. I'll never know the divergence."
• "Papi, you are GOOOOOOOOAAAAALLLLS! Celebrating you lot and your dearest of life today."
• "For the man who taught me everything I know. From the child who paid to attention to roughly half of all you lot tried to teach."
• "Dad, I promise you find a fun way to waste some fourth dimension on your birthday. Yous have my permission!"
• "Daddy, jubilant you as my rock and equally a loving pillar of our community."
• "You deserve a margarita with the skilful tequila today! And every day. Happy altogether to a top-shelf kind of Dad!"
• "Dad, thinking of yous today and hoping you're making your altogether a good twenty-four hours."
• Papá, en tu cumpleaños quiero recordarte lo mucho que te quiero y te admiro. ¡Disfruta mucho tu día!

Writing Tip: Even a dad who never gets mushy in person tin still capeesh a warm and loving written bulletin. Cards are a perfect vehicle for saying the heartfelt things that can exist hard to say contiguous.

For a Child

If you don't like to write a lot on a birthday menu, and so send more cards to kids, considering even those who have learned to read are ofttimes too excited to sit down through a very long message. Keep your wish short, sweet and fun, and your card will be a hitting with the birthday kid.

Examples

• "[7] years awesome! That's yous!"
• "All hail the altogether princess! Have a royally sugariness [5th], [Kyla]!"
• "Yay! You lot're [4] today! Love you, big [four]-twelvemonth-sometime!"
• "Happy Altogether to our new favorite [6]-year-old!"
• "[Kai], you're getting to be such a big [girl]! Happy [3rd] Birthday, Sweetheart. We love yous!"
• "[Elliott]! How tin you be [9] already? Why, simply yesterday, you were [8]. Oh, well. Have a happy one, birthday boy!"
• "[Tyler], I've got a feeling yous're going to make a pretty amazing [11]-yr-former. Happy Birthday!"
• "Hope this whole heady year of being [13] kicks off with a very fun, very happy birthday!"
• ¡Feliz Día! Que tengas un cumpleaños muy divertido.

Writing tip: Some adults might not want to exist reminded of their new age, but kids will dear seeing that yous know exactly how old they are now! If it's non already printed on the carte du jour, be sure to write the altogether kid'south historic period somewhere in your message.

For a Spouse or Significant Other

If you're married to or dating the birthday boy or daughter, this is a great opportunity to strengthen your relationship. Depending on your circumstances, information technology might also be a not bad chance for a trivial flirtatious fun.

Examples

• "I'g so grateful y'all came into the globe because you make my earth better every 24-hour interval. Happy Birthday, Infant."
• "Hope your birthday cake is the second sweetest thing I get to taste today. Those lips tho!"
• "Thanks for yous existence you and being mine."
• "It's your solar day, and I can't wait to celebrate it with yous."
• "Baby, I'grand celebrating the special sweetness and deep goodness of y'all today. Happy Birthday."
• "I hope your birthday is the happiest."
• "Happy Birthday, Beautiful."
• "Wish you were hither for me to spoil today."
• "Cute. Sweet. Tasty. And I own't talking about the cake. Happy Birthday, Bae."
• ¡Feliz vuelta al sol, mi vida! Haces que el mundo sea mejor, y por eso hoy te celebro.

Writing tip: Using your private pet proper noun for the recipient tin instantly make a simple message more warm and personal. No matter what you say, utilize words that sound similar you lot.

For a Family Fellow member

Chances are, your family members volition be getting a lot of birthday cards from yous through the years, so yous can mix information technology up and write a longer personal bulletin some years and a shorter message others. Love, compliments and warm wishes all work nicely for family. And then do "Proud of you" and "I'yard glad nosotros're family" messages.

Examples

• "Every year, I'm even more grateful to have a [brother] like y'all."
• "Maya, you are bursting with life. Celebrating today what a joy you are to be around."
• "Nosotros yet remember the first time we laid eyes on you—on this twenty-four hour period [23] years ago. Y'all were so beautiful correct from the start, and with every yr, you grow even more than beautiful. Promise yous know how much we love y'all and how grateful we are to phone call you lot our [daughter]."
• "Nothing feels safer than coming home to you lot, love, tradition and heritage, Mama."
• "So proud of the person yous are! Then happy nosotros're family."
• "I am just so in awe of you…and so proud to call you my [sis]."
• "Well, [Grandpa], some other year has gone by, and I still haven't come beyond anyone wiser, kinder, more than generous or improve at [checkers] than y'all. Y'all're the all-time!"
• "[Amil], you do life big and love bigger. Love having you as a blood brother and celebrating your goodness."
• Felicidades, [Hermano]. Eres muy importante para mí, y por eso en tu cumpleaños deseo que recibas mucho amor y felicidad.

Writing tip: If your card doesn't specifically mention your family unit relationship with the recipient, include information technology in your personal message. You can either address the recipient by the title y'all use for them (Nana, Pop-Popular, Aunt Suzie, etc.), or mention the relationship (sister, cousin, etc.) somewhere in your bulletin.

Complicated Relationships

Sometimes we desire to send a birthday message but the timing or the relationship is complicated. Those are the times you can let the bill of fare practise the talking—or you can write a simple, sincere message that says just enough.

Examples

•  "I hope your day is full of all the things that make you happy."
• "On your altogether, know I'm thinking well-nigh you and wishing you good things."
• "Birthdays are a run a risk to permit people know how much they matter to yous. Y'all matter to me, and I want yous to take a good day."
• "Wishing you a birthday that is everything you need."
• "Today is your day. We'll have time to figure stuff out later—for at present, I merely want you to have the day you deserve."
• "Hoping you feel pampered and celebrated on your special day."
• "Even when things are complicated betwixt us, I still care virtually y'all and wish you all the best today."
• "Nosotros'll always exist family/friends, and I'll always care about you."
• "Nosotros've been through some things, but we've nevertheless got something to celebrate: you and what a skillful person yous are."
• "I hope someday things are ameliorate between usa and we get dorsum to existence the sisters we each deserve. Today, I but want to wish you lot a happy birthday and tell you I love you."
• "Simply 2 words: 'Happy Birthday.' Well, three more: 'I love y'all.'"
• "Our history together means I'll e'er think of you lot on your birthday. I hope this is a practiced one."
• Espero que tu día esté lleno de todas las cosas que te hacen feliz.

Helpful tip: When you lot need a unproblematic birthday carte for a complicated human relationship, search by "Tone." Endeavor looking under "General Wish," "Short and Simple" or "Simply Stated."

Tough Times

Birthdays are happy occasions that sometimes fall during tough times due to illness, job loss, bereavement or other challenging circumstances. A carte is a keen way to let the birthday person know you're still thinking of (and celebrating) them even in the midst of a difficult twelvemonth.

Examples

• "I know you've had some existent challenges this year, and it has been not bad to encounter how well yous have met them."
• "What a yr. You made it! Let's celebrate THAT!"
• "Life owes you some really expert times. Hope they offset right now."
• "You've had more than than your share of challenges this year—hope this will feel like a brand-new year of better days."
• "I hope this next year is gentle and sweet to y'all and gives you lots of reasons to smile and lots of time to rest."
• "No thing what nosotros've all been through, there's one good matter nosotros can still celebrate with accented happiness: You lot."
• "Celebrating how we came through together and how you rose to and past each occasion to get your glory. Happy Altogether. So proud of y'all."
• "You came through this year striving, strong and resilient—especially for a time similar now. And we couldn't be more proud. Happy Birthday."
• Que este nuevo año no tengas que superar retos, sino que sea uno lleno de alegres momentos. Te lo mereces. Felicidades.

Writing tip: Humor can be a great day-brightener even in the midst of a challenging time. If you lot know the altogether person appreciates a good express joy, experience free to choose a funny bill of fare and/or add a humorous personal message.

Professional person Relationships

Let your relationship guide you lot when signing a birthday card for a co-worker. If information technology's someone yous're shut to, y'all tin be as casual in your message as you lot would with nonwork friends. If it's your supervisor or someone with whom yous have a relationship that'due south more strictly well-nigh piece of work, and then keep your message more formal.

Examples

• "Happy Birthday and all the best to you in the year to come!"
• "It'south a pleasure to work with y'all…and to wish you a happy birthday!"
• "[Cecily], all work and no play makes us deadening girls. Then don't work too hard on your birthday. Hope it's happy!"
• "Unfortunately, I tin't accept credit for blistering you the cake in the interruption room. Fortunately, I tin can totally accept a slice in your honor. Yum…and Happy Birthday!"
• "You make work a lot less like work. Thanks for all you practise!"
• "Happy Birthday to the funniest member of my piece of work fam!"
• "You really GLOWED UP in that cubicle! Go it, Girl! Happy Altogether."
• Es un placer trabajar contigo. Te deseo el más feliz de los cumpleaños.

Writing tip: Practise resist any urge to talk shop when signing a altogether card for a co-worker. Your card is a place for official birthday business concern just.

Signing a Group Card

Here are some ideas for when you lot're the umpteenth person to sign the altogether menu, and all the obvious messages (and well-nigh of the infinite) have already been taken.

Examples

• "Jubilant y'all!"
• "Happy solar day!"
• "I salute yous."
• "Birthday thank you!"
• "Birthday hugs!"
• "Permit the b-solar day fun brainstorm!"
• "Allow us swallow block!"
• "Have a sweet one!"
• "Huzzah to you on your birthday!"
• "Be so happy."
• "Happy Altogether & Happy Twelvemonth!"
• "Happy wishes to you!"
• "Aye to political party hats!"
• "…and many more."
• "Another yr more wonderful!"
• "Yous're crawly!"
• "You're the best!"
• "You look bully!"
• "U wait 2 good 2 B this quondam!"
• "Tin't believe yous're a year older!"
• "Hither's to you lot!"
• "Here'south to a peachy birthday!"
• "Make a wish!"
• "Wish for something skilful!"
• "Whatever you wish, I 2d that!"
• "Political party on!"
• "Stay cool."
• "Stay sugariness!"
• "Honored to wish you a happy birthday!"
• "¡Salud! ¡Dinero! ¡Amor!" (Spanish for "health, money, love")
• "Love y'all!"
• "Political party like it's your birthday! Because…you know why!"
•  "Cosigning your happy!"
• ¡Pásatelo súper bien!

Warm Closings

A warm closing before your signature is similar the bow on height of the birthday souvenir. Cull 1 of ours, or come with one of your own.

• Warmly,
• Dearest,
• With dear,
• Lots of dear,
• Love always,
• Much love to yous,
• All my love,
• All-time wishes!
• Best wishes on your birthday and e'er,
• All life's best to you lot,
• Happy Altogether!
• Wishing you happiness,
• Warmest wishes,
• Gratefully,
• Blessings,
• God bless,
• Hugs and kisses,
• Prayerfully,
• Con Mucho Cariño

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• Credits:
• Additional contributions from Ellen Brenneman, Jim Cosgrove, Kevin Dilmore, Jeannie Hund, Diana Manning, Katherine Stano, Melissa Woo, Megan Haave, Melvina Young and Cindy Phillips.

Keely Chace is a Hallmark Main Writer who loves reading, running and spending time with her married man and daughters. She shares writing tips in her "What to Write" series on Authentication & Community.

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