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Christmas is a time of celebration and therefore a 'Merry Christmas' would be appropriate. A new year, as in 'Happy New Year', on other hand, extends over a whole year (and further on) and as such the sense of good luck, good fortune and prosperity provided by Happy would be appropriate.
Wish you Merry Christmas / Wish you a Merry Christmas for everybody here. I wiish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year. Either is correct. With the "a" you're wishing that the event be merry/happy. Without, you're effectively wishing a blessing on the person. The difference is subtle and not important in most cases.
Happy New Year! is a sentence by itself, and thus Happy should be capitalized. It would not be necessary to capitalize "birthday" if you were saying "Happy birthday" instead of "Happy New Year". I wish you a merry Christmas and happy New Year. is how I'd capitalize the words if they weren't being used on their own, but rather in a longer sentence.
Improve this question. The common greeting for the new year is. I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year. Since Christmas has religious roots, it may not be suitable for people who are not religious. Shortening the greeting to. I wish you a happy new year. seems lame.
I wish you a merry Christmas and all the best in 2019. (Jason's suggestion) I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy 2019! (see here) As 2019 approaches, I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year! On whether merry and happy should be capitalized, see e.g. here (conclusion: probably both capitalized and non-capitalized versions are OK ...
147 1 4 11. "Happy merry Christmas" is not idiomatic and a bit nonsensical. "Happy" and "merry" are near-synonyms, and so stringing them together (while not technically illegal grammar) is "redundant". (Cue the voice of doom!) You may say "happy Christmas" or, more commonly in the US, "merry Christmas". – Hot Licks.
10. "I hope you had a nice Christmas" or "I trust you had a nice Christmas" would both suffice. The latter might sound a bit overly-formal to some ears, but if it's a business contact you don't know outside of business that's not necessarily a bad thing. Much is made in some quarters about whether it is better to refer to Christmas or the ...
Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year. This is an exception to the normal rules of capitalization. Share. ...
And finally, Wish you and your family a very Happy New Year. Looking forward to working with you next year. Regards, or. Dear X, Wish you and your family a very Happy New Year. Regarding the project matter for discussion bla bla. Regards, Either of these should be fine.
10. No, there is no greeting or farewell saying for Halloween. Just because of its superficial cultural similarities with Christmas (you get a bunch of stuff that you like), it is not a literal holiday and the cultural practices surrounding it are not about wishing someone well or warding off evil. It is just a bunch of kids running around ...