Holiday Wishes to Copy and Paste
Original messages for the occasions coming up, grouped by who you are writing to. Type a name once on any page and every message fills it in before you copy. Everything is plain text, so it pastes into a chat, a card or an email without an app.
Why these are written rather than collected
Holiday greetings circulating online are forwarded, re attributed and reworded until nobody knows where they came from, and a large share of the famous ones were never said by the person they are credited to. Copying one passes the error along and puts the same sentence in thousands of messages on the same morning. Every line on these pages was written for this site, which avoids both problems. It also means the message you send is not one the person has already received from someone else that day.
The name slot is the point
Every other wishes list makes you paste a line and then retype the name, which is exactly the step where a message stops sounding like it was written for one person. Type the name once at the top of a page and every message swaps it in before you copy. It runs in your browser, nothing is sent anywhere, and the messages still read correctly if you leave the field blank.
Pairs with the emoji collections
These pages carry the words. The matching topic pages carry the glyphs, with a curated emoji set for each occasion and notes on which ones render everywhere. Each wishes page links to its topic page and back, so you can pick the message here and the emoji there rather than hunting through a picker.
Pick the channel before the message
The same greeting fails in three different ways depending on where it lands. A card can carry two or three sentences because it is read once and slowly. A group chat message is read in a scroll alongside dozens of others and has to work immediately. A work channel needs warmth without implying a friendship that is not there, which is why every occasion page keeps a separate colleague set with no decoration at all. Choosing the channel first and the line second avoids all three failure modes, and it is the reason these pages are grouped by recipient rather than by sentiment.
Timing matters more than wording
Most holiday messages arrive in the same hour as everyone elseโs, which is the worst moment to be read properly. A new year message sent on the afternoon of the 1st lands in an empty inbox instead of competing with thirty others at midnight. Work messages before Christmas belong on the 23rd or 24th, because offices are effectively closed by the day itself. Thanksgiving travel wishes belong on the Wednesday, the busiest travel day of the American year, not on the Thursday. Each occasion page sets out the specific timing for that date.
Text instead of a forwarded image
The default festival greeting in a lot of the world is a picture with a message printed over it, forwarded until it is blurred and often still carrying someone elseโs watermark. Every forward re compresses it, it cannot be edited, it cannot be searched and it cannot have a name put into it. Plain text has none of those problems: it arrives identical however many times it is passed on, it costs almost nothing to send on a slow connection, and the person receiving it can reply to the words rather than to a picture.
Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Are these holiday wishes copied from somewhere?
No. Every message on these pages was written for this site. Holiday greetings circulating online are forwarded and re attributed until nobody knows the source, and many famous ones were never said by the person credited. Writing them fresh avoids repeating that error.
How does the name box work?
Each occasion page has a field at the top. Type a name once and every message below swaps its placeholder for that name before you copy. It runs entirely in your browser, nothing is transmitted, and the messages still read correctly if you leave it empty.
What is the difference between these and the topic pages?
These pages carry sendable message text. The matching topic pages carry curated emoji sets for the same occasions. One gives you the words, the other gives you the glyphs, and each links to the other.
Will the decorated headers work in WhatsApp?
No. The multi line headers are built from box drawing characters, which only line up in a monospace font. WhatsApp, Instagram and most chat apps render proportional text, so use the short message sets there and keep the headers for Discord, Notion or a lock screen widget.
Which occasions are covered?
Diwali on 8 November 2026, Thanksgiving on 26 November 2026, Christmas on 25 December 2026 and New Year on 1 January 2027. Birthday and anniversary messages have their own dedicated pages.