130+ Merry Christmas Wishes and Messages

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• Merry Christmas. Hope it is a warm one.
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• Wishing you a good Christmas and a slow morning.
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• Merry Christmas from our house to yours.
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• Have a peaceful one.
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• Merry Christmas. Eat well, rest more.
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• Hope today is exactly what you needed.
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• Merry Christmas. Thinking of you.
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• Wishing you a bright and easy Christmas.
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• Happy Christmas. Enjoy every bit of it.
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• Merry Christmas. See you soon, I hope.
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• Hope the day is kind to you.
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• Merry Christmas — go steady on the chocolate.
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• Warmest wishes for the day.
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• Merry Christmas. You are missed here.
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For parents, siblings and the people who make up the day.

• Merry Christmas to the people who made every other Christmas worth remembering.
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• Wishing you a day with no cooking, no washing up and no arguments about the heating.
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• Merry Christmas. However old we get, this is still the best table to sit at.
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• Thank you for the Christmases you built when we were small.
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• Merry Christmas to a family that has got through a lot and still turns up for each other.
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• Hoping this one is quieter and kinder than the last.
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• Merry Christmas. The house is better with all of you in it.
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• Wishing you the kind of day that ends with everyone still talking.
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• Merry Christmas to the loudest, best people I know.
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• Thank you for making this the part of the year I look forward to.
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• Merry Christmas. Save me a seat and most of the roast potatoes.
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• Hoping the year ahead is gentler on this family than this one was.
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• Merry Christmas. Nothing about today works without you.
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• Here is to another year of all of us, somehow, together.
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For the people you choose rather than inherit.

• Merry Christmas to a friend who has made this year a lot easier to get through.
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• Hope your Christmas is as good as you have been to everyone around you.
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• Merry Christmas. Let us do something about seeing each other more next year.
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• Wishing you a December with fewer obligations and more of what you actually want.
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• Merry Christmas to someone who never makes anything harder than it needs to be.
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• Hope the day gives you a proper rest. You have earned one.
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• Merry Christmas. Still glad you are in my life.
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• Wishing you a Christmas as easy-going as you are.
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• Merry Christmas. You have carried a lot this year and barely mentioned it.
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• Hope this one is everything last Christmas was not.
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• Merry Christmas to a friend worth keeping in touch with properly.
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• Here is to another year of ridiculous conversations.
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• Merry Christmas. Thanks for being easy to be around.
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• Hope you are somewhere warm with people who deserve you.
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For a wife, husband or partner.

• Merry Christmas to the person who makes an ordinary December feel like something.
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• Another Christmas with you, which is the only part of the day I was looking forward to.
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• Merry Christmas. Everything good about this house is you.
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• Wishing you a day where somebody else does the cooking for once.
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• Merry Christmas. I would pick this, with you, every year.
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• Thank you for making the whole year easier to live in.
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• Merry Christmas to my favourite person at any table.
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• Hoping this year is kinder to you than the last one managed.
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• Merry Christmas. Still the best decision I have made.
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• Wishing you a quiet morning and a long, slow afternoon.
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• Merry Christmas. You make the hard months bearable and the good ones better.
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• Here is to a year of us, again.
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For people who would rather have a joke than a sentiment.

• Merry Christmas. I have hidden the good biscuits and I am not sorry.
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• Wishing you a Christmas with minimal questions about your personal life.
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• Merry Christmas. The gift is from both of us but I picked it.
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• Hope your tree survives longer than ours did.
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• Merry Christmas. Remember, the sprouts are optional and always have been.
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• Wishing you the strength to pretend you like every present.
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• Merry Christmas. May your relatives leave at a reasonable hour.
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• Hope you get through the day without assembling anything.
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• Merry Christmas. I did the shopping, so manage your expectations.
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• May your batteries be included for once.
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• Merry Christmas. Nobody needs to know how much of the cheese you ate.
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• Wishing you a Christmas where the Wi-Fi holds.
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• Merry Christmas. The receipt is in the bag, no offence taken.
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• Hope you win at least one argument about the thermostat today.
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Warm but professional — for work contacts and teams.

• Merry Christmas, and thank you for a straightforward year of working together.
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• Wishing you a restful break and a strong start to the new year.
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• Merry Christmas. It has been a genuine pleasure working with you.
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• Thank you for your patience and good humour this year. Have a great break.
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• Wishing you and your family a peaceful Christmas.
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• Merry Christmas from all of us here. See you in the new year.
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• Thank you for the work this year. Enjoy the time off.
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• Wishing you a well-earned rest over the holidays.
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• Merry Christmas. Looking forward to picking things up in January.
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• Thank you for everything this year — have a proper break.
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• Wishing you a calm Christmas and a good year ahead.
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• Merry Christmas to a team that made a difficult year work.
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For cards where faith is part of the occasion.

• Wishing you peace and quiet joy this Christmas.
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• May this Christmas bring your home light, warmth and rest.
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• Praying for a peaceful Christmas and a year of good health for your family.
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• May the season bring you comfort and the year ahead bring you hope.
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• Wishing you a blessed Christmas and a gentle start to the year.
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• May your home be full and your heart be at ease this Christmas.
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• Holding you in my prayers this Christmas and into the new year.
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• May this Christmas restore something the year took out of you.
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• Wishing your family peace, health and quiet gladness this season.
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• May the light of Christmas reach the corners of this year that needed it.
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• Praying your Christmas is peaceful and your year ahead is kind.
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• May you be surrounded by love this Christmas and carried by it after.
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For family and friends you will not see this year.

• Merry Christmas. The table is one person short and everyone has noticed.
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• Sending Christmas love across far too many miles.
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• Merry Christmas. Same day, different time zone, same love.
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• The distance is the only bad thing about this Christmas.
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• Merry Christmas. We left your seat where it always is.
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• Thinking about you more than usual today.
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• Merry Christmas. Come home when you can — no rush, but soon.
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• Missing you at the loud, chaotic part of the day.
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• Merry Christmas from the people who still count you in.
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• Hope wherever you are today feels a little like home.
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• Merry Christmas. We talked about you at lunch, as expected.
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• Wishing you a warm one, wherever the year has put you.
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For people grieving, unwell or struggling — written to acknowledge rather than paper over.

• Thinking of you this Christmas. No need to reply.
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• This one will be hard. I am around if you want company, and around if you do not.
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• Not wishing you a perfect Christmas — just an easier day than you are expecting.
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• Holding you in mind today. There is no right way to get through it.
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• Christmas can be loud about who is missing. Thinking of you.
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• No pressure to enjoy today. I just wanted you to know I am here.
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• Hope you find one quiet, good hour in today.
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• Thinking of you and of them.
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• Whatever today looks like for you, it is allowed to look like that.
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• Here if you want to talk, and here if you want to say nothing at all.
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• Sending you something steadier than cheer this Christmas.
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• Take the day however you need to. I am not far away.
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• Wishing you a warm and restful Christmas.
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• With love, this Christmas and always.
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• Thinking of you both this Christmas.
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• Hope the year ahead is a good one.
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• Merry Christmas and a peaceful new year.
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• With warm wishes for the season.
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• Hope your Christmas is full and quiet in equal measure.
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• Love to all of you at number nine.
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• Merry Christmas — thank you for this year.
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• Wishing you every good thing in the year ahead.
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• With love from all of us.
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• Have a lovely Christmas and a steady new year.
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• Thinking of you at Christmas, as always.
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• Merry Christmas. Here is to the next one together.
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