At WhatToWriteInACard.com, our goal is simple: to help you find the right words when you aren’t sure what to write in a greeting card.
Whether you’re celebrating a birthday, thanking someone who made a difference, encouraging a friend through a difficult time, congratulating someone on a milestone, or trying to comfort someone who is grieving, we want the messages and writing guidance on this website to be helpful, appropriate, and easy to personalize.
This Editorial Policy explains how we create, review, organize, and update the greeting card messages, articles, and other content published on WhatToWriteInACard.com.
Our Editorial Approach
We believe a greeting card message should sound natural and fit the relationship, occasion, and circumstances in which it is being used.
Our message collections and writing guides are created to help visitors who know what they want to express but may need help finding the right words.
The messages published on this website are intended to be starting points. Visitors may use them as written, combine ideas from several messages, or personalize them by adding names, memories, shared experiences, and other meaningful details.
How We Create Greeting Card Messages
Greeting card messages published on WhatToWriteInACard.com may be developed through personal writing experience, brainstorming, research into common greeting card occasions and etiquette, review of existing message categories, and AI-assisted drafting.
Artificial intelligence tools may be used to help brainstorm ideas, explore different tones, organize large collections of messages, or create initial drafts.
AI-generated drafts are not published automatically.
Content is reviewed, edited, organized, and selected before publication. Messages may be rewritten for clarity, tone, originality, usefulness, and natural wording.
Our goal is not to publish the largest possible number of messages. Our goal is to provide useful collections that help visitors find a message appropriate for their situation.
Human Review and Editing
Content published on WhatToWriteInACard.com is reviewed by the site’s owner and editor before publication.
The review process may include:
- Removing messages that are repetitive or too similar to other messages in the collection.
- Editing awkward, unnatural, or overly complicated wording.
- Checking that messages fit the intended occasion, recipient, and tone.
- Organizing messages so visitors can easily browse different styles and situations.
- Adding practical writing advice, personalization tips, examples, and explanations when appropriate.
- Reviewing sensitive topics with additional care.
Because language is subjective and every personal situation is different, visitors are encouraged to adjust any message so it accurately reflects their own relationship, beliefs, personality, and circumstances.
Special Care for Sensitive Topics
Some greeting card occasions require more care than others.
Content involving grief, sympathy, serious illness, difficult life circumstances, encouragement, and other sensitive subjects is reviewed with particular attention to tone and wording.
We try to avoid language that minimizes a person’s experience, makes assumptions about how someone should feel, offers unrealistic promises, or could unintentionally cause additional hurt.
No collection of sample messages can account for every person’s experience. Visitors should consider the recipient’s circumstances and personalize messages when appropriate.
Faith-Based and Christian Messages
WhatToWriteInACard.com includes Christian and faith-based greeting card messages for visitors who want to express their faith when writing to family members, friends, and others.
Faith-based messages are identified and organized so visitors can choose content that is appropriate for their own beliefs and the beliefs of the recipient.
When Bible verses or other religious texts are quoted, we make reasonable efforts to identify the translation or source when appropriate.
Greeting Card Message Generator
The free Greeting Card Message Generator is designed to help visitors quickly find message ideas based on occasions, recipients, and tones.
The generator selects messages from collections created and organized for the website.
Generated messages are intended to provide inspiration and a useful starting point. Visitors are encouraged to personalize generated messages by adding the recipient’s name, mentioning a shared memory, expressing something specific they appreciate about the person, or adjusting the wording to match their natural communication style.
Writing Guides and Informational Articles
In addition to greeting card message collections, WhatToWriteInACard.com publishes writing guides and informational content about greeting card etiquette, personalizing messages, choosing appropriate wording, and communicating during important life events.
Our goal is to provide practical guidance that helps visitors understand not only what they might write, but also how to choose and personalize words that fit their situation.
Articles may be updated as we identify opportunities to provide clearer explanations, additional examples, better organization, or more useful information.
Originality and Duplicate Content
We aim to provide original, useful content and avoid unnecessary repetition across message collections.
Because common greeting card expressions may naturally use similar words and phrases, some overlap in themes or familiar expressions may occur.
We review collections to reduce unnecessary duplication and to provide a useful variety of messages, tones, and situations.
Accuracy and Corrections
We make reasonable efforts to provide accurate and helpful information.
Greeting card etiquette and appropriate wording can vary based on culture, family traditions, personal beliefs, relationships, and individual circumstances. The information provided on this website is general guidance and should be adapted to each visitor’s situation.
If we discover an error, outdated information, broken link, incorrectly attributed quotation, or other problem, we may correct or update the content.
Visitors who notice an error or have a concern about published content are welcome to contact us through our Contact page.
Advertising and Affiliate Relationships
WhatToWriteInACard.com may display advertisements or include affiliate links that help support the cost of operating and maintaining the website.
Advertising relationships do not determine which greeting card messages, writing guides, or informational topics we publish.
If affiliate links are used, we may earn a commission when a visitor makes a purchase through one of those links, at no additional cost to the visitor.
Sponsored content, if published in the future, will be clearly identified.
Our Commitment to Readers
We want WhatToWriteInACard.com to be a practical and trustworthy resource for people who need help finding the right words.
We are committed to improving existing content, adding useful writing guidance, reviewing message collections, correcting errors, and making the website easier to use.
Our goal is to help visitors spend less time worrying about what to write and more time connecting with the people who matter to them.
Questions About Our Editorial Policy
If you have questions, corrections, or concerns about our editorial practices or content, please contact us through our Contact page.
Last updated: July 2026