101 Christmas and New Year Greetings for Holiday Cards This Year 

Christmas and New Year’s greetings are essential for connecting with loved ones during the holidays. Most importantly, is how you write them in your Christmas cards. From your loved ones to your professional colleagues to furry family members, Postable has 101 Christmas and New Year’s card openers to try out this year. If your main message is a home with a Christmas tree decorated in colored lights, a roaring fire in the hearth, and a lit sugar cookie candle filling the house, then your Christmas and New Year greeting openers represent the open front wreath-adorned door. Decide how you want your season’s greetings to start by perusing our list below.

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Though, if you’re looking for more guidance regarding your Christmas cards, check out the Postable blog. It’s here where you can gain tricks, tips, and inspiration about your holiday greetings all year round. Additionally, we help you during the greeting card mailing process. After you choose your card and write your message, we address, print, and mail your cards just in time. So, let’s get the process started. 

Short Christmas and New Year greetings

Don’t over think it! Get straight to the point with brief Christmas and New Year greetings. 

1. Happy Christmas and a happy New Year!
2. Merry Christmas and happy New Year!
3. Merry Xmas and here’s to the New Year,
4. Merry Xmas!
5. Enjoy your holiday, see you next year!
6. Season’s greetings and happy New Year,
7. Have a jolly Christmas and a happy New Year!
8. Tis the season for a fresh start,
9. Happy New Year! 
10. Peace and love and a happy New year to you,
11. Merry Christmas with lots of love,
12. Here’s to Christmas and a new beginning!
13. Live, laugh, love!
14. Cheers to the New Year!
15. Merry Christmas and if I don’t see you, happy New Year!
16. May your Christmas be merry and your New Year bright,
17. Excited to celebrate Christmas with you and ring in the New Year!
18. Your presence is a gift, let’s meet up for the New Year. 
19. Wishing you the best holiday season!
20. Happy New Year! Hope you had a good Christmas,
21. From my family to yours, Merry Christmas and happy New Year,
22. You deserve the best Christmas and New Year,
23. Happy Christmas and merry New Year,
24. Sending you lots of love this Christmas and New Year!
25. Thinking of you this Yuletide and New Year,

Funny Xmas and New Year salutations

A smile and a laugh bring instant holiday cheer.

26. Wishing you a fa-la-la-fabulous Christmas and a holly, jolly New Year,
27. It’s not the New Year yet, enjoy your Christmas cookies!
28. May your Christmas be bright and your budget not so tight!
29. Cheers to a New Year filled with great friends, awesome family, and less hangovers. 
30. Here’s to holidays filled with peace, love, joy, and plenty of wine to get you through!
31. New year, new mistakes!
32. Merry Christmas and happy New Year — the diet starts tomorrow!
33. Save your resolutions for next year, it’s Christmas — time to party!
34. You have a whole year to make up for your Christmas mistakes, here’s to a fresh start!
35. Have a carefree Christmas and a hangover free New Year!
36. Christmas is for mistakes and mistletoe, the New Year is for repent and resolutions,
37. All I want for Christmas is a fresh start for the New Year!
38. Here’s to presents from Santa and troubles as short as your resolutions!
39. Cheers to ho-ho-ho’s for Christmas and kisses on New Year’s eve,
40. Keep it jolly on Christmas and sloppy on New Year’s eve,

Religious holiday and New Year sayings

Tune into the spirit of Christmas by sharing your favorite religious quotes and sayings as the opener for your Christmas cards. 

41. Wishing you a blessed Christmas and happy New Year,
42. “Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.” — Pope Francis
43. “Peace with God, peace with others, and peace in your own heart.” — Rick Warren
44. “Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas everyday.” — Helen Steiner Rice
45. Merry Christmas and may God bless you and your family,
46. “I know the plans I have in mind for you, declares the Lord; they are plans for peace, not disaster, to give you a future filled with hope.” — Jeremiah 29:11
47. “It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.” — Mother Teresa
48. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis
49. “Advent helps us remember that light shines in the darkness and we reflect it.” —  Greg Richardson
50. May God’s blessings be with you this Christmas and New Year!
51. Love and joy unto you,

Opening quotes for holiday cards

Here are some familiar quotes to make your holiday cards unforgettable.

52. “At Christmas, all roads lead home.” — Marjorie Holmes
53. “True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart.” — Helen Keller
54. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
55. “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”— Albert Einstein
56. “Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it.”— Mother Teresa
57. The beginning is the most important part of the work.” — Plato
58. “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.” — Abraham Lincoln
59. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” — Nelson Mandela
60. “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” — Martin Luther King
61. “Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering ‘it will be happier.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Business greetings for Christmas and New Year cards

For your colleagues at work, there are some Christmas and New Year openers more appropriate than others.

62. Merry Christmas and happy New Year to you and yours,
63. Relax on Christmas and work hard after the New Year!
64. Warm wishes from (COMPANY) to your family and friends!
65. Cheers to your success this year and the next!
66. Here’s to your health and prosperity this Christmas and New Year,
67. Merry Christmas and happy New Year from your team at (COMPANY,)
68. Thanks for all your hard work this year, merry Christmas and happy New Year!
69. All your hard work does not go unnoticed, enjoy your holiday break,
70. You deserve the best Christmas and the best New Year, enjoy!
71. Keep up the good work next year, merry Christmas!

Christmas and New Year salutations for furry friends

Your fur-ever family deserves warm wishes, just as anybody else does.

72. Have a purr-fect holiday!
73. Meow-y Christmas,
74. Have a paws-itiviely merry Christmas and happy New Year!
75. Here’s to a tail-wagging Christmas and New Year!
76. Live, laugh, and receive lots of licks from furry friends!
77. Cheers to a paw-some Christmas and New Year,
78. May your holidays be filled with belly rubs, long walks, and plenty of treats.
79. Wishing you a paws-itively purr-fect holiday,
80. Furry friends are always on the nice list!
81. Hoping you have plenty of treats under the Christmas tree and sloppy kisses on New Year’s eve,
82. New Year, new resolutions, and new cats…
83. All I want for Christmas is my furry family!
84. Ring in the New Year by popping bottles and playing with puppies, 
85. New year, new adventure with my best friends!

Social media Xmas and holiday greetings

You might recognize some of these silly Christmas meme quotes!

86. “Happy Chrimas”
87. “Merry Chrysler”
88. “Merry crisis!”
89. Merry Grinchmas!
90. “Four for you Glen Coco!”
91. “Sleigh!!”

Pop culture holiday salutations

Sometimes, celebrities say it the best.

92. “This is Christmas. The season of perpetual hope.” — “Home Alone”
93. “Merry Christmas, you filthy animal.” — “Home Alone 2”
94. “It’s Christmas Eve. A time of mystery, expectations, who knows what might happen.” — “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms”
95.  “Have yourself a merry little Christmas. Let your heart be light.” — “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”
96. “A very Merry Christmas and a happy new year. Let’s hope it’s a good one, without any fear.” — “Happy Xmas (War is Over)”
97. “Come out to the coast, we’ll get together, have a few laughs…” – “Die Hard”
98. “The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.” — “Elf”
99. “This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.” — Taylor Swift
100. “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”— Walt Disney
101. “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”— Oprah

However you decide to begin your Christmas and New Year greetings, write it from the heart. Christmas and New Year cards are for rekindling distant relationships and updating your network with the latest and greatest in your life — because no one should feel alone during the holidays. To make this an easier process, send out your warm wishes with a gorgeous Postable card. Then, we take care of the rest. Questions? Check out our FAQ page here.