Wishing you the very best on your birthday! May your cake be tall, your candles cooperative, and your year ahead full of good surprises. This is the GreetingGrams birthday card - free to send, happy to be opened, and guaranteed to contain zero calories.
Send This Birthday Greeting
Sending the card is the easy part: share this page's link with the birthday person by email, text or chat. When they open it, the celebration starts. Want a different flavor of birthday wish? The collection also includes Happy Birthday 2 (with an interactive candle to blow out), the heartfelt Birthday Letter, and Birthday Blessings for a warmer, more reflective note.
20 Birthday Messages to Steal
A card is better with a personal line attached. Borrow any of these:
- Happy birthday! Save me a corner piece - the one with too much frosting.
- Another year wiser. The other 364 days are for forgetting it all again.
- You are not older, you are a limited edition with extra history.
- May your candles outnumber your worries - though at this point that is a lot of candles.
- Happy birthday to someone I would absolutely help bury... the leftover cake.
- Age is just a number. In your case, a steadily increasing one. Happy birthday!
- Wishing you a day as wonderful as you pretend to be on video calls.
- Eat the cake. The diet starts on a day that is not your birthday.
- You make this age look good. Genuinely suspiciously good.
- Happy birthday! May your phone battery and your energy both last the whole party.
- Today the only thing getting roasted should be the coffee. Enjoy your day.
- A toast: to you, to cake, and to pants with forgiving waistbands.
- Birthdays are nature's way of telling us to eat more cake. Obey nature.
- May your year ahead be like good frosting - sweet, smooth, and a little over the top.
- Happy level-up day! New year unlocked.
- You survived another lap around the sun. Astronomically impressive.
- Hope your birthday is as fun as you were before you got responsibilities.
- Don't count the candles - measure the glow.
- Old enough to know better, young enough to do it anyway. Happy birthday!
- One year closer to discounted movie tickets. Dream big.
A Quick History of the Birthday Card
Birthday greetings are one of the oldest card traditions there is. According to the Greeting Card Association, birthday cards account for more than half of all greeting cards sold - far ahead of any holiday. The custom of written birthday wishes goes back well over a century, and even the song everyone sings began as a schoolroom tune in the 1890s, a history documented by the Library of Congress. The e-card simply put the tradition on fast-forward: same warm wishes, instant delivery, infinite confetti.
More Ways to Celebrate
Round out the birthday delivery with a laugh from the jokes collection, send a friendship gram to the birthday person's partner-in-crime, or browse the occasions page for the next celebration on the calendar. And if you are reading this on your own birthday: happy birthday from GreetingGrams - now go forward this to someone whose birthday is next.