50 Cheery, Heartfelt Ways to Sign a Christmas Card

Maryn Liles

December 9, 2023 at 7:20 PM·3 min read

Making a Christmas card that satisfies everyone in your family is hard enough as it is. Thankfully, we now have digital programs for building holiday cards that are fun and intuitive. But still, picking the right photo, color correcting, picking a design, writing out a genuine, thoughtful message or Christmas wish, and addressing all of these envelopes can all take a lot of effort. Then, when you’re almost all done, you still have to pick a proper sign-off! Will this suffering never end?

While sending and receiving holiday cards reminds us of the loved ones we haven’t seen in a while, or friends who we’ve lost touch with, deciding how to sign a Christmas card is actually a lot more complicated than it seems. How can you sound cordial but not creepy, caring but not fanatical, brief but not rude? And, wait—you have to take into account all of the different people who will be receiving this card. The same sign-off may not be appropriate for separate categories of people. How do you sign a card for a family member versus a coworker? How do you sign a card without saying “love” or “from”?

To make your card-sending slightly easier, we’ve taken the liberty of brainstorming the most tactful sign-offs for Christmas cards. The relationships that we have with different groups of people call for different types of sign-offs. We’ve taken the liberty to compile our list in order to reflect different types of warmth for different types of people.