Thanksgiving is based on the simple-but-important idea that at least once a year, we ought to take time to count our blessings. For most people, the list starts with family and friends. If you have people who care about you, then you have something to truly be grateful for – even if you can’t afford the biggest Butterball in the freezer section.
It follows that saying Happy Thanksgiving to family and friends should be a top priority. To help you check it off your list, here are some unique Thanksgiving messages you can send to the VIPs in your life. Some of these Thanksgiving wishes are sweet and sentimental, while others are clever, playful or just plain funny.
Sincere
Here are some genuine and heartfelt Thanksgiving messages.
- Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends and family. I can’t tell you how thankful I am to have people like you in my life.
- May the turkey leg be yours this Thanksgiving.
- Happy Thanksgiving! Hope you enjoy some moist turkey on your dinner table, and some juicy gossip around it.
- I hope your Thanksgiving table is full of your favorite food and surrounded by your favorite people.
- Happy Thanksgiving to my family and friends. I’m thankful for many things, but you guys top the list.
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- Wherever you go this Thanksgiving, and whoever you spend it with, I hope it’s wonderful.
- I love all the food on Thanksgiving Day, but it’s my relationships with friends and family that sustains me throughout the year. Just wanted to let you all know how thankful I am to have you in my life, and wish you a wonderful Thanksgiving.
- When life gets hard, it’s friends and family who get me through… and for that, I will always be thankful. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody.
- Hope your Thanksgiving Day brings you an extra helping of joy.
- Happy Thanksgiving to the people who make me thankful to be me.
- Hope you have plenty to be thankful for this Thanksgiving and over the coming year.
- Happy Thanksgiving to my amazing friends and family. You won’t all be at the table with me this Thanksgiving, but you’re all in my heart… always.
- Whenever I want to feel thankful, I just look at my Facebook Friends list. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
- Wishing you a cornucopia of love, joy, and laughter this Thanksgiving.
- Thanksgiving seems like the perfect time to tell all my friends how much I appreciate them. You guys are just the best. Happy Turkey Day.
- Hope your Thanksgiving brings you more blessings than you can count and more food than you can handle!
- Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. I hope you all have much to be thankful for as you sit down at the table this year. With friends like you, I know I do.
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- Happy Thanksgiving from my family to yours. May your heart be full as you gather around the table with loved ones.
- Hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving. With friends like you, my cup runneth over.
- May the wishbone snap in your favor this Thanksgiving.
- Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. I was just counting my blessings, and guess what? You all made the list.
- With all the amazing people in my life, I have too many blessings to count. Happy Thanksgiving to each and every one of you.
- To all my family and friends… may Thanksgiving bring you the same joy that you bring me every single day.
- Wherever you may be this Thanksgiving, I hope there’s plenty of laughter and love.
Special Person
Here are some Thanksgiving messages for someone who is particularly dear to you, like a best friend or family member.
- THANKS for GIVING me so much love, kindness, and support.
- You’re like the whipped cream on top of my pumpkin pie… you make life a little sweeter. Thanks for being you, and have a wonderful Thanksgiving.
- Thanksgiving is all about family, and as far as I’m concerned, you’re family. Happy Thanksgiving to a very special person in my life.
- I wish we were spending Thanksgiving together. It would be a great opportunity to tell you how grateful I am to have you in my life. Guess I’ll just have to send you my love and best wishes in advance.
- I wouldn’t trade you for all the pumpkin pie in the world. And you know what? I loooove pumpkin pie. Happy Thanksgiving.
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- I’ll let other people snap the wishbone this year. With you in my life, I’d feel greedy wishing for anything more.
- What am I thankful for this Thanksgiving? You – the same thing I’m thankful for every day.
- Happy Thanksgiving to my best friend in the world. I wouldn’t trade you for the last piece of pumpkin pie.
- Happy Thanksgiving to a wonderful friend. I’ll be thinking about you, especially when I’m counting my blessings.
- I don’t have to remind myself to be grateful. I just have to think of you.
- I’m grateful for everything you are and thankful for everything you do. Hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving.
- Happy Thanksgiving to my dear friend. You’re the best, and you deserve all the best this Thanksgiving and in all the days to come.
Cute/Funny
Finally, here are some whimsical Thanksgiving wishes for family and friends.
- I’d wish you all a Happy Turkey Day, but I don’t want to be accused of using fowl language.
- What am I most thankful for? All of you. Duh! Happy Thanksgiving to each and every one of my amazing friends!
- Happy Turkey Day, everyone! I wish I could gather all my friends around the Thanksgiving table this year… but then there wouldn’t be enough pumpkin pie to go around and someone would probably die.
- Hope your Thanksgiving Day is amazing from the moment you wake up until you doze off watching a lopsided football game.
- Happy Thanksgiving! May the last piece of pumpkin pie find its way into your belly before anyone knows it’s gone.
- This Thanksgiving, my heart is bursting with gratitude, just as my pants will be bursting after several helpings of mashed potatoes.
- Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends. Hope you come back with your sanity intact after spending so much time with family.
- Hope your Thanksgiving Day is full of fun, food, family, and most importantly, football.
- May your Thanksgiving Day be full of fun and excitement… until dinner is over and everyone just wants to take a nap.
- Safe travels to everyone visiting family this Thanksgiving, and best of luck to everyone attempting to cook a massive meal for hungry drunk relatives.
- As we sit at the Thanksgiving table this year, I hope everyone remembers what’s really important… winning a political argument with a loudmouthed extended family member.
- Thanksgiving is here, and I cran-barely contain my excitement. Hope you have a great Turkey Day.
- To all my wonderful friends… I wish I could have all of you with me at the Thanksgiving table. I could really use some backup when dealing with my kooky family.
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- This Thanksgiving, may your heart be as full as your belly.
- A Thanksgiving Wish… May your relatives stay relatively sober and relatively non-political at the dinner table.
- Turkey Day is the moist wonderful time of the year.
