Burns Night Card Messages

Burns Night card messages and Burns supper invitation wording

Looking for Burns Night card messages or Burns supper invitation wording? Both are here, ready to copy: invite lines for 25 January, toasts, funny messages and short warm wishes.

Burns Night falls on 25 January, the birthday of Robert Burns. Most cards sent around it are supper invitations — haggis at seven, bring whisky, poetry optional — so the invite wording comes first.

Copy any of them straight in, or use one as an opener and finish it in your own words. Every card is blank inside with proper room for the details.

Burns supper invitation wording

• Burns Night at ours, 25 January. Haggis at seven, whisky from six, poetry when we're brave enough.
• You're invited to our Burns supper. Bring an appetite and a poem you can just about remember.
• Haggis, neeps and tatties, 25 January. Kilts encouraged, not enforced.
• Burns Night supper — 7pm, our place. There will be whisky. There will be bagpipes on a speaker.
• Please join us for a Burns supper on 25 January. Address the haggis, address the whisky, address nothing else.

Burns Night toasts

• Here's tae us. Wha's like us? Gey few, and they're a' deid.
• To Rabbie Burns — a poet, a romantic and a menace. Slàinte.
• To absent friends, present whisky and the haggis that gave its all.

Funny Burns Night messages

• Happy Burns Night. Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie — anyway, more whisky?
• Here's to a night of haggis and questionable Scottish accents.
• Happy Burns Night to someone who only knows the first line and shouts it louder to compensate.
• Slàinte mhath. That's about the extent of my Gaelic, so let's eat.

Warm Burns Night wishes

• Happy Burns Night. Raising a glass to good food, old poetry and better company.
• Wishing you a warm Burns Night and a very generous dram.
• Here's to Rabbie, and to you. Slàinte.
• Have a wonderful Burns supper — save me a bit of the haggis.

Short Burns Night lines

• Happy Burns Night!
• Slàinte mhath.
• Here's tae us. Wha's like us?
• Haggis, whisky, poetry. In that order.

Cards for friends

For the ones who'll turn up for the whisky.

Candles and gifts

A small thank you for whoever cooks the haggis.

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Frequently asked questions

When is Burns Night?

25 January every year, the birthday of the poet Robert Burns. It is not a bank holiday.

Do people send Burns Night cards?

Mostly as supper invitations. A blank card with the date, time and what to bring does the job, and doubles as a thank you to the host.