A short birthday message is needed more often than a long one: for a messenger text, a social media comment, a card or a note on a bouquet. Here are short birthday wishes in your own words — universal ones, for a woman and a man, for friends and colleagues, funny one-liners and short verses — plus a simple formula for writing your own. Wishes for other recipients, from Mum to a colleague, are collected in birthday wishes for family, friends and colleagues.
More options: birthday wishes, birthday wishes in prose, birthday poems.
Happy birthday, here’s to you —
May your wishes all come true!
Another year, another start —
Joy and love with all my heart!
Most short wishes end up on a card attached to a bouquet, which fits one or two sentences. Pick a line from the one-liner section and add the recipient’s name and your signature. When ordering flowers for delivery, you can put the card text in the order comment and the florist will write it by hand.
One or two sentences, up to about 150 characters — enough for a messenger, a comment or a bouquet card.
Add the person’s name and one specific wish that relates to them: travel, a new job, a sports goal.
One line with a wish and your signature, for example: “Happy birthday, with love — Olya.”
Author: Maria Svitlovir
Graduated from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Institute of Biology and Medicine (2001). BSc in Biology, MSc in Horticulture. Writes about plants, works at a garden centre selecting and repotting plants, and contributes to plant reference guides.
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