I don't know if it's the fact that the pandemic took literal years from all of us, but my brain cannot comprehend that we're about to enter 2025. Like, mentally it is still 2019 and I'm gobbling down the Fyre Festival documentaries and blasting every song from Ariana Grande's Thank U, Next album on repeat. What? The hell? Is time??
Anyway! As hard as it is to believe that 2025 is right up on us, it also means it's time to start solidifying your New Year's Eve starter pack. Fly-as-hell sparkly party 'fit? Check. Winter-inspired cocktail ideas? Done. At least three potential New Year's Eve Insta captions ready to load up? Of course. What you're missing is, though, a few good ol' Happy New Year wishes, too. Because lemme tell ya, you probs shouldn't decide what you're going to text your friends, family, and ex (I know you're already plotting that ;)) after you've started guzzling the champagne.
But I get it. Conjuring up a few witty wishes can be hard...especially when the ye old faithful (and agonisingly basic) "Happy New Year!" text is sitting right there. But, true to form, we got you! This list has actually good, actually clever New Year's wishes for everyone from your partner, to your group chat, to your best friend's cousin's mum (whom you adore and weirdly have a text life with). Whoever you're sending good New Year vibes to, these short and sweet New Year's wishes are ready to go for ya. Your 2025 is off to a great start already.
Sweet New Year wishes for your BFFs
- I don't know about you, but I have a feeling this is going to be our best year yet. Cheers to 2025 and cheers to us! 🥂
- Here's to another year of making big sh*t happen. 2025 was made for us.
- May all your wildest dreams manifest in 2025.
- New year, new start, but no new friends. Can't wait to spend 2025 by your side.
- I couldn't have gotten through 2024 without you, and I can't wait to crush 2025 together. Cheers! 🍾
- 2025 is your year—I can feel it! Looking forward to seeing you do extraordinary things.
- 2024 wouldn't have been the same without you. Eternally grateful for our friendship and unbelievably excited to see what 2025 has planned for us.
Cute New Year wishes for your partner
- Every new year with you is my new favourite.
- Whatever 2025 has in store, know that we'll be in it together. 💕
- Time flies when you're with the love of your life. Another year down and forever to go.
- IDK how we can possibly top 2024, but anything's possible when I'm with you. Happy new year, my love.
- As long as you're by my side, I know 2025 will be the best year yet.
- 2025 is going to bring some big new changes for you, but hopefully you're happy being stuck with the same old me. 😉
- New year, same us. Can't wait for another year of adventures with you.
- The best thing I did this year was fall in love with you. Here's to making more mems together in 2025 <3.
- I'm not sure how I could love you more than I do now. But I'm sure 2025 will show me just that.
- Every day with you feels like a gift. Here's to another 365 days of "presents."
- How lucky am I to get another year of falling more in love with you?
- Your presence changed my life in the best way this year. I'm so happy I get to love you into the next one.
- 2025 is just another notch in our forever. Can't wait to see what it has in store for us.
Happy New Year wishes for your family
- Wishing you nothing but health and wealth in the new year ahead.
- I'm so grateful for your support and love this year, and every year. Cheers to another great year! 🎊
- You deserve only the best, and I hope all your wishes come true in 2025.
- May this new year be the beginning of something great. Love you!
- Happy New Year to my biggest cheerleader and my favourite supporter. I couldn't be luckier to have you in my life. ❤️
- You helped make 2024 one for the books. Cheers to a happy, healthy, and abundant 2025!
- You can't choose your family, but there's no one I'd choose to have in my life over you. I can't wait to see all the things you accomplish this year.
Wholesome New Year wishes for colleagues and bosses
- I'm so glad you joined the team this year! I can't imagine shady Slacks with anyone else.
- My professional development was through the roof this year thanks to your leadership and guidance. Looking forward to continuing to grow in 2025!
- The team vibes in 2023 were immaculate. I know we'll keep that same energy in 2024!
- Who knew I'd get a work wife in 2024? Let's stay married in 2025, kay?
- My 2024 is marked by all of our work sessions in that sad ass conference room. And I can't wait to keep at it with ya in 2025.
- I brought all the snack drawer crisps and chocolate in 2024. You got it in 2025, right?
- I'm so proud of our team's big wins this year! 2025 ain't ready for us.
- Michael Scott quite literally could never. Thanks for being the World's Best Boss all 2024!
- We were the dream team in 2024, and we'll be the dream team in 2054.
Funny New Year wishes for anyone
- Looking forward to another year of making bad decisions together.
- Here's hoping your New Year's resolutions last longer than your NYE hangover. ✌️
- IDK about you, but I'm no longer feeling '24. Here's to 2025!
- 2025 mantra: Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
- Manifesting good vibes, great sex, and glowy skin for you in the new year.
- Let's cheers to the new year and booze to forget the old one. 🍻
- Cheers to another year of nights we won't remember and New Year's resolutions we'll never keep.
- Fingers crossed that 2025 doesn't suck!!
- Resolutions are for suckers! Just live your favourite life all of 2025!
Inspiring quotes to use as New Year wishes
- "Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right." — Oprah Winfrey
- "Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one." — Brad Paisley
- "And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been." — Rainer Maria Rilke
- "Hope smiles from the threshold of the new year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'" — Alfred Lord Tennyson
- "What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year." — Vern McLellan
- "New year is the glittering light to brighten the dream-lined pathway of future." — Munia Khan
- "Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing." — Sarah Ban Breathnach
Famous lyrics to use as New Year wishes
- "And a happy new year to all that is living / To all that is gentle, kind, and forgiving." —Regina Spektor
- "I want to be with you / Be with you, night and day / Nothing changes on New Year's Day." — U2
- "It's been a hard year and I only know / From down this low, it's only up we go, up we go." — Lights
- "I'm singing carpe diem / I'm saying seize the day / Come on, let's live forever / It's New Year's Day." — Bon Jovi
- "Now we're there and we've only just begun / This will be our year / Took a long time to come." — The Zombies
- "So take these words and sing out loud / 'Cause everyone is forgiven now / 'Cause tonight's the night the world begins again." — Goo Goo Dolls
- "Open your eyes / And see what's outside / There's nothing to fear / It's a new year." — Kate York
- "Glasses raised, we all say cheers / Could this be the one? / Our new year." — Tori Amos
Corinne Sullivan is an Editor at Cosmopolitan, where she covers a variety of beats, including lifestyle, entertainment, relationships, shopping, and more. She can tell you everything you need to know about the love lives of A-listers, the coziest bedsheets, and the sex toys actually worth your $$$. She is also the author of the 2018 novel Indecent. Follow her on Instagram for cute pics of her pup and bébé.
Christen A. Johnson is the senior lifestyle editor at Cosmopolitan, where she covers health and wellness, home, sports, astrology, food, travel and more for print and digital. She also dabbles in culture writing, and wrote Cosmo's first-ever digital cover story. Before joining the magazine, Christen was a lifestyle features reporter at the Chicago Tribune. Several of her health and style stories made the paper's front page. When Christen isn't digging through antique stores, she's likely drooling over home renos on HGTV, sharing her latest therapy revelation, redoing old workouts from her college basketball days, or trying to perfect her homemade buttermilk biscuit recipe. Follow her on Insta for BTS ~ editor life ~ tingz!
