60 Christmas Wishes for Friends to Spread the Holiday Cheer

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With the holiday season approaching, we all gear up to celebrate the winter festivities with our loved ones. And while you might be busy pre-planning all the celebrations in order, what about your loved ones who won’t be able to join you to raise a toast or two? In such a scenario, Christmas wishes for friends will be a great way to extend the festivities and let your buddies know that you are thinking of them and presenting to you an array of Christmas and New Year wishes for friends that you can copy + paste to send greetings to your entire friend list. Take a look and bookmark your favourites to send them to all your besties on the eve of Christmas.

Table of contents:

• Happy Christmas Wishes for Friends
• Short Christmas Wishes for Friends
• Christmas Wishes for Best Friends

Happy Christmas Wishes for Friends

It’s that time of the year when joy, love, and togetherness are at the heart of all celebrations.There’s no better way to celebrate the Christmas holiday spirit than by sharing heartfelt wishes and making memories with your friends. If you are far away from your closest friends right now, sending them warm Christmas greetings is a thoughtful way to make them feel special.

1. Here's wishing you and your family a joyous, peaceful and lovely Christmas holiday my dear friend.
2. Raise your champagne glasses high and have a sparkling holiday season with your loved ones. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2025
3. May the lord always put a hearty meal on your table, and may your lives be filled with happiness and peace always. Wishing you and your family a Merry Christmas.
4. On the joyful occasion of Christmas, send you and your family my warmest regards. Wishing you a delightful Christmas and New Year 2025.
5. Raising a toast to the season of cheer, merriment, and togetherness. Merry Christmas, my friend.
6. From me to you, special wishes on this Christmas Eve. May Jesus Christ bless your life with love, happiness, peace and prosperity. Merry Christmas!
7. Thank you for always sticking by my side through life's highs and lows. I love you, mate. Merry Christmas to you and your people.
8. I am blessed to have you, my family-like friend, in my life. Wishing you and your folks joyous Christmas celebrations.
9. A sweet person like you deserves every holiday season to get sweeter for you with every passing year. Merry Christmas! 
10. Here's to another beautiful year of our friendship. May your holidays be as blessed and joyful as your presence brings into my life. Happy Holidays to you!
11. As I sip your favourite eggnog this festive season, I thank you for the endless memories you and I created this last year. Here's to many more to come. Merry Christmas!
12. Even borders between us cannot stop me from thinking of you this holiday season, my dear friend. Wishing you and your family a memorable Christmas and New Year 2025.
13. All I wish for you and your family in this holy month of Christmas is a lifetime full of peace, happiness, blessings and good luck. Merry Christmas, y'all!
14. We remember our childhood around the holidays together with this quote from Home Alone 2: "You can mess with a lot of things. But you can't mess with kids on Christmas."
15. With a face like yours, you should be on a Christmas greeting card. Just kidding! Merry Christmas, you fool.
16. I have left a wish under the Christmas tree. A wish to always keep a bright smile on your face. Have a great time this Holiday season, my friend. Merry Christmas!
17. May the lights of Christmas decor fill your life with a bright future. May the glitter of the Christmas party bring sparkle into your life. And may the aroma of the Christmas feast fill your life with contentment. Happy Christmas.
18. I hope you have a delightful, joyous, relaxed and memorable holiday season. Merry Christmas with lots of love to you.
19. Here's wishing that all your Christmas wishes come to fruition in the coming new year. Wishing you and your beautiful family a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2025.
20. May the lord grant you hearty Christmas celebrations and a blessed new year. Happy Holidays to you and your loved ones.

Short Christmas Wishes for Friends

If you are planning to whatsapp a creative christmas template to your friends, a short christmas wish can capture the holiday spirit in just a few words. Keep it simple, easy to personalize (in case you wish to edit the names), and sweet to send warm wishes this Christmas eve. If you are wishing a close friend or reconnecting with an old friend you haven’t seen or spoken to in a while, a short and sweet Christmas wish or message can do the magic!

1. Hi! Just wanted to say may your new year be blessed with joy, laughter, blessings and peace. Happy Christmas and New Year!
2. May the A to Z's of the world bless your life. Merry Christmas to you and your folks.
3. Sending you my warmest wishes this holiday season. Rejoice, retreat and relax. Happy Holidays!
4. May this new year bring one blessing after another in your life. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2025.
5. "Have yourself a merry little Christmas. Let your heart be light." -Judy Garland
6. May Santa leave a bag full of blessings under your Christmas tree. Wishing you and your mates a Merry Christmas!
7. "The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much." - Henry David Thoreau
8. Christmas is the start of a whole new year full of hopes, miracles and magic. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
9. "Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind." - Calvin Coolidge
10. Hope this greeting finds you sitting by the fireplace, sipping on some hot cocoa, feeling merry. Happy Christmas, dear friend!
11. This Christmas Eve, make a wish and I will pray that the lord grant it to you the soonest. Merry Christmas to you and your people.
12. Wrapped and ribboned just for you - Warmth, happiness, luck and peace. Happy Christmas!
13. A bright smile, a cheerful sentence, lots of love from someone dear, here's wishing you the best of wishes for the coming year.
14. Wishing you an everlasting spree of holiday celebrations. Greatest smiles and joy to your entire family. Merry Christmas.
15. Whatever you wish for, whatever brings a smile to your face be yours in the coming year. Happy Holidays 2024 to you!
16. "Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful." - Norman Vincent Peale
17. Have a sparkling, joyous, illuminated and extra-sweet time this festive season. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
18. Enjoy an extra serving of the Christmas feast, because you deserve it all. Happy Holidays, my dearest friend!
19. Thinking of you and your family this festive season. Have an amazing Christmas celebration and a Happy New Year 2025.
20. "The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other." - Burton Hills

Christmas Wishes for Best Friends

Best friends will always have a special place in our hearts, which is why greetings, wishes or messages for best friends are always more heartwarming in nature. Your best friend has seen the ups and downs with you and has chosen to be your partner-in-life. On this Christmas day, let them know how blessed you feel to have them in your life with a special Christmas wish or message.

1. You know the greatest gift Santa ever gave me for Christmas? It is YOU, my bestie! Every year, I thank the lord, Santa and his reindeer to have blessed me with your presence. Merry Christmas, buddy!
2. I am going to add a figurine of you next to my gingerbread house because you are that special to me. My best buddy, Merry Christmas to you and your family.
3. Guess what? Christmas is cancelled because Santa fainted when you told him that you were good this year. Damn! Straight to Happy New Year then?
4. Sure, Christmas brings the most joy to children. But we adults too get to enjoy the festivities, until the bill arrives. Ha ha! Merry Christmas my friend.
5. Let's make a pact this festive season. You and me, cherishing the most important thing in our life together - Pizza. Merry Pizzalicious Christmas to you too!
6. Your bestie just reminding you not to borrow any money from Santa's staff (the elves), because they are always short. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
7. Here's to a season of opening the pant buttons and eating a Christmas feast, sans salad vegetables, to our heart's content. Happy Christmas and a New Year to you.
8. Eat, drink and get chubby - because I deserve a Santa-like friend in my life always. Merry Christmas my best friend. 
9. To the sole partner in all my crimes for life, wishing you a holiday season of shenanigans and laughter. Happy Christmas to you and your family.
10. You know you are special to me, right? So special that I asked Santa to always keep your glass of wine full and your drunk butt dials closer. Happy Christmas! 
11. “The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.” – ‘Will Ferrell. So please don't crush everyone's joy with your bathroom singing. Merry Christmas.
12. I can't wait to receive my Christmas presents, bags with luxury names written all over, courtesy of you. Thank you in advance. And oh, Merry Christmas to you.
13. This holiday season, I am telling my kids all the memorable moments that you and I created together every holiday season, growing up together. Happy Holidays, buddy!
14. You know you are blessed to have a best friend like me in your life, right? Since it is the season of expressing gratitude, I am open to accepting gift cards and cash bills. And also, Merry Christmas to you buddy.
15. Here's to a season of not counting calories and looking forward to meeting back again at the gym post-holiday celebrations. Merry Christmas!
16. God's way of blessing you comes in various forms. One such form is the blessing of a best friend in your life. Wishing that blessing in my life a Merry Christmas!
17. Make note of every single gossip and tell me all about it when we meet again after the holiday season. Here's wishing you and your family, a Happy Holidays!
18. Here's wishing you festive weeks filled with glasses of mulled wine, plates of leftovers and endless gifts to unwrap. Wish you a Merry Christmas, my dearest bestie!
19. May your life keep sparkling, your work keeps growing, your smile keeps getting wider and your dreams get fulfilled. Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a blessed New Year 2025.
20. No holiday season goes by when I don't think of our younger days of Holiday celebrations. Raising a toast to those memories, wishing you magical Holiday festivities. 

Whether you plan on simply sending happy Christmas wishes for friends via text or plan on sending Christmas card wishes for friends via post, all of these Christmas wishes quotes for friends will surely bring a big smile to their faces. Because it all comes down to the gesture and the thought of you for your friends that really counts.

Here's wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2025!

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