Formal Christmas greetings for businesses: mini guide to creating them
With friends and relatives it’s easier, we can always find the right words for Christmas greetings. But when we have to write a card for the boss, employees, colleagues, suppliers, customers… things get more complex. You have to respect the relationships between the different figures, convey the right messages, choose the appropriate words, be friendly and try not to come across as too cold or aloof. You have to make a good impression.
Here we give you a few tips for wrapping up truly flawless formal Christmas greetings. We suggest what to write, how to create and present them, and also show some examples to take inspiration from.
Formal Christmas greetings: phrases for colleagues, suppliers, clients…
Make a nice list of recipients divided into categories and formulate, for each group, the right phrase. The categories can be: employer or employees; colleagues; suppliers; customers. Proceeding in order is useful when we have a large list of people and don’t want to risk forgetting someone on the way.
Formal Christmas greetings for the employer.
The choice of whether to call someone “tu” or “lei” depends on the relationship you have in the workplace. Here are two examples of phrases that reflect different levels of confidence. Both contain a wish for the future business year, which is important for those who hold the reins of a company.
Dear [name],
I wish you and your entire family a peaceful Christmas and a promising and fulfilling New Year.
Merry Christmas [name],
to you and all your family. I wish you much serenity and a promising new year, studded with success.
Formal Christmas wishes for employees.
There can be thanks for work and encouragement that instills motivation. This year, in particular, even more is needed.
Merry Christmas, [name].
Thank you for the effort and motivation you put into your work. I wish you that this new year will be full of satisfaction and achievements. So many we will achieve together.
Formal Christmas wishes for colleagues.
Let’s talk about formal wishes, so to be addressed to colleagues with whom we are a little less familiar but with whom we can take an extra liberty. Of course, talking about the New Year, it is hard not to think about what we are leaving behind: 2020 will remain etched in everyone’s memory as annus horribilis. A message of encouragement will make the card warmer and more personal.
Merry Christmas, [name]. Spend peaceful days with your family. May the new year be better than the one we left behind – it applies to 2021, but also to all those to come.
Formal Christmas greetings for vendors.
We use this occasion to strengthen ties with suppliers, who are a valuable part of our work. We then add a thank you for their contributions and a wish for new projects to be shared.
Thank you, [name], for the cooperation and support you have always shown us. We wish you a 2021 full of ambitious projects to share. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from our entire team.
Formal Christmas wishes for customers.
If we are speaking business to business, we wish you a professionally prosperous new year. We also renew our willingness to share new projects.
Merry Christmas, [name], from our entire team. Thank you for choosing us and thank you for your trust. We hope to continue to share with you the new projects that 2021 holds.
Once we have our text sketched out, we can start shaping the cards. Below are a few tips.
Formal Christmas greetings: creating a Christmas card.
We recommend that you aim for a specially created card-not the kind you buy at the stationery store and fill out by hand, mind you. If it is intended for customers, suppliers or employees, it is more professional to personalize it with the company’s colors, fonts and logo. Letting personality shine through is always an added value. If, on the other hand, you are exchanging greetings among colleagues or want to send a card to the owner, then you are untethered from the corporate visual.
You can outsource the task to a designer, or you can work independently with the help of simple graphic design tools, which will help you finalize your formal Christmas greetings.
Formal Christmas greetings with Adobe Spark
Adobe Spark, for example, offers a selection of Christmas templates from which to start. Here is an example of a template we found in the gallery that lends itself well to formal Christmas greetings — we avoid graphics that are too childish or photographic, which immediately give us the idea of a stock card.
Formal Christmas greetings with Crello
Crello. Here, too, you choose the template to start from and customize it to your liking with photos, images, fonts. We have also scoured Crello’s gallery and selected the Christmas templates that we feel best suit our purpose.
If, on the other hand, you have decided not to rely on a template but to create your card from scratch, here we have collected some inspiration.
As you can see, we have chosen a sober and elegant style, without too many frills. The last one, more witty and informal, could be a good card to send to colleagues.
Formal Christmas wishes–how to send them?
Now all that remains is to decide how to send your formal Christmas greetings. You can choose the electronic way or print them out and send them off–of course, if you are not working remotely, you can hand-deliver them to co-workers and colleagues.
Choosing to print them out is more effective for at least three reasons:
- It shows extra care and attention, since behind it is a commitment to print and deliver each card to its recipient. In this way we make the person receiving it feel more special.
- It is warmer and more elegant. An electronic card is colder and more detached than a paper-and-ink card.
- It stays more imprinted. On the one hand we have a card that we held in our hands and on the other hand we have an email that lasts as long as it takes to open and close it. Which one will be remembered best?
Have you chosen to go for a paper-and-ink card? Well done! Our printers are already “heating up the ink.” You can send us your file in the restricted area.