May your birthday be slightly nicer than the average Wednesday but not so nice it sets a precedent.
Fresh today · Wednesday, 8 July
New Wishes
A handful of wishes pulled from the cabinet this morning. Pick one up — copy, save it to your pinboard, or send it on.
Wishing you a year of growing up just enough to be charming, never enough to be boring.
Happy birthday to the boyfriend whose 'I'm not hungry' is a meaningless sentence we both agreed to stop respecting.
May your birthday be filled with the kind of cake that justifies a slightly suspicious second slice.
Wishing you a birthday with all your favourite people, plus the one cousin we tolerate for narrative reasons.
Happy birthday — try to act surprised when I bring out the candles, even though we both know I told the waiter twenty minutes ago.
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Browse by occasion
What are we writing today?
Cabinets sorted by occasion. Open one — pages are arranged by warmth, not algorithm.
- Anniversary
- Baby
- Belated
- Best
- Birthday
- Boy
- Boyfriend
- Christian
- Christmas
- Congratulation
- Diwali
- Easter
- Eid Mubarak
- Engagement
- Farewell
- Fathers Day
- Friendship
- Funny
- Get Well
- Girl
- Girlfriend
- Good Morning
- Good Night
- Graduation
- Hanukkah
- Heart Touching
- Holiday
- Invitation
- Job
- Love
- Miss You
- Mothers Day
- New Year
- Recovery
- Retirement
- Romantic
- Thank You
- Thanksgiving
- Wedding
- Well
- Women's Day
- Sympathy
- Valentine's Day
- Halloween
- Veterans Day
More from today
May your birthday be sweet, your hangover gentle, and your selfies suspiciously well-lit.
Wishing you a year of getting away with things, except the ones I told you not to.
Happy birthday to the boyfriend who treats 'a little nap' as a multi-hour commitment.
May your birthday include exactly one nostalgic playlist and zero unsolicited financial advice.
Wishing you a birthday with cake you don't have to share, except for the slice you have to share with me.
Happy birthday — another year of pretending you understand wine.
May your birthday be filled with everything you wished for, minus the things I sensibly intervened on.
Wishing you a year of mostly-good decisions and the wisdom to blame me for the rest.
Happy birthday to the man whose dance moves remain ambitious and unimproved.
May your birthday come with cake, candles, and the calm acceptance that you're closer to forty than thirty.
Wishing you a birthday in which nobody asks you when we're getting married, except possibly your mother.
Happy birthday — may your gifts be useful, your selfies be flattering, and your hangover be merciful.
May the year ahead reward your particular blend of charm, snoring, and surprisingly good cooking.
Wishing you a birthday that ends with you slightly older, slightly fuller, and considerably more loved than you let on.
Happy birthday to the boyfriend who's funnier on accident than most people are on purpose.
May your candles light cleanly and your texts be returned promptly — both rare luxuries.
Wishing you a birthday that's the smallest possible amount of fuss and the largest possible amount of cake.
Happy birthday to the man whose age, on paper, increasingly contradicts his behaviour at parties.
Going against his wishes once is a sentence. Going against them twice is a paragraph. Wishing you the clarity to know which you're writing.