These Sweet and Funny Birthday Wishes Are Perfect for Celebrating Best Friends

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How to Wish Your Best Friend a 'Happy Birthday!'Ree Drummond
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Time to celebrate one of the most important days of the year—your best friend's birthday! 🥳 🎉

You're here because figuring out what to write in a birthday card can be hard—and the closer you are to the person, the harder it can get. Maybe it's the pressure of capturing the complexity of a relationship in words, like when you're coming up with birthday wishes for your mom or grandma. Or maybe you're celebrating a big milestone, and you also have to plan a speech at their 50th birthday party! That's double-duty difficult. Despite that, birthday wishes for a friend can go a long way in letting them know you care—meaning they're a necessity! After all, best friends mean the world and more. Just look at Ree and Hyacinth! So, when facing writer's block, check out our collection of the best birthday wishes for your best friend.

Here, you'll find heartwarming friendship quotes and messages that are perfect for including in a DIY birthday card or even just a simple birthday text to start their day right. Whether you want to send your bestie something laugh-out-loud funny, heartfelt, or short and to the point, these birthday greetings will fit the bill. You could also use one of these wishes as birthday captions along with your many photos together to commemorate the special day. (And if your sis is your bestie? We've got birthday wishes for a sister, too.)

The only thing they'll love more than a message that reminds them how much they mean to you is if you also make them a birthday cake and plan a night of best friend movies. Because there's no better way to celebrate the day than with a sweet treat, some quality time, and a few cute birthday wishes for your best friend. Of course, one of these amazing best friend gifts wouldn't hurt either. 😜

Birthday Blessings for Your Best Friend

  • Wishing you a birthday blessed with love, laughter, and of course, good food.

  • May the year ahead bring everything you've been working toward! Happy birthday!

  • To my forever young friend, may He continue to bless you with flawless skin!

  • The lord blessed me when our paths crossed. Thank you for being the best friend a person could ask for!

  • You and I were a match only He could make. I'm forever grateful and wish you all of the blessings a life can bring!

  • Happy birthday to the most amazing person I know! May your birthday be filled with joy, love, and laughter, and may your heart be overflowing with happiness throughout the coming year.

  • On your birthday, I pray that God blesses you with all the good things in life―health, wealth, happiness, and success. May your dreams come true and may you achieve all that you set out to do.

  • Happy birthday to someone who is not just a friend, but a true inspiration. May you continue to inspire others with your kindness, generosity, and positive outlook on life.

Funny Birthday Wishes for Your Best Friend

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  • Older? Definitely. Wiser? Well, that's debatable. Happy Birthday!

  • Have the happiest birthday—being friends with me is the only gift you need!

  • Every day we celebrate you, but today you get a card.

  • You don't look a day over 21! From a distance, with my eyes closed. Have a great birthday!

  • Here's to you, best friend! Grateful you came into my life to make me seem normal!

  • A true friend remembers your birthday but not your age.

  • I can't wait until we're old enough to be wreaking havoc in the senior home together! Until then: happy birthday, darling!

  • A quick reminder on your special day: well-behaved women rarely make history. But we don't have to worry about that!

  • Forget about the past you can't change, the future you can’t foresee, and most certainly forget about the present because I did not get you one.

  • To the best friend a person could ask for—my one regret is not meeting you sooner (so I could have annoyed you longer).

  • With each trip around the sun you grow smarter, better looking, and funnier! May this be the year you catch up to me!

  • Happy birthday to my fellow golden girl!

  • Statistics show that those who have the most birthday live the longest. Too bad we were always terrible at math!

  • Another birthday, another year we haven’t spilled each other’s secrets. Let’s make this the best yet!

  • Time to celebrate you! The only person crazy enough to endure me!

  • Loving you is a piece of cake. Now let’s eat yours!

  • Today is all about honoring the person who keeps my therapy bills low. Here’s to another year of listening to me complain!

  • Let's get this party started! No, seriously—we both know we can't stay up past 10 p.m.!

  • Happy birthday to a friend who still isn’t showing her/his age… and definitely not acting it!

  • Friends who gray together, stay together! Here's to many, many more.

  • Growing old is mandatory, growing up is an option. Thanks for opting out with me!

  • To the world's best bad influence—may you always keep the party going!

  • Today, we count your blessings, not your wrinkles.

  • Happiest birthday! I was going to plan a big surprise, but I didn’t want to bring your blood pressure up!

  • We may need to call the fire department to help blow out all those candles. Happy birthday!

  • In banana years, you're ripe enough for bread!

  • You're terrible at this aging thing—can you at least *try* to look older?

Sweet Birthday Wishes for Your Best Friend

  • We've shared so many good memories together and I can't wait to see what's next! Happy birthday!

  • To the funniest, funkiest, most fabulous person I know: happy birthday!

  • You're the person who can make me laugh when I want to cry, and the best friend anybody could have.

  • You always shine as bright as the candles on your cake. So, keep lighting up every room baby!

  • When I count my blessings, your friendship is at the top of the list. Have the happiest birthday.

  • Happy birthday to my forever partner in crime.

  • Friends are the family we get to choose. I’m so glad that we chose each other.

  • Where would I be without my ride or die? Happy birthday, friend!

  • No matter the distance, I’ll always be the first to wish you a happy birthday.

  • Today we celebrate my number one. Through thick and thin, I’ll always be there for you.

  • My life was made better the day you entered it. Happy birthday!

  • All the best wishes for my best friend! I hope you're enjoying your special day doing whatever it is you want!

  • Wowee, another loop around the sun. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

  • Today is the day! Hope you spend it pampered and in good company.

  • Happy birthday! Hope you have a warm day, I'm thinking of you always, and I'll see you soon!

  • It's always your day in my book, but this one is extra special.

  • You know the drill—happiest of days to the most important person in my life. Love you!

  • You warm my heart every time I see you. Wishing you a day of joy.

  • Thank you for always giving great advice and never blaming me when I don't take it!

  • Congrats on another trip around the sun! I hope this day is full of cake, memories, and fun.

  • To the sweetest berry in the bunch, a very happy birthday!

  • I hope you know how much you're loved today and every day, best friend!

  • I can't wait to spend the night celebrating my favorite person! I adore you to bits!

  • I hope your birthday is as special as you are, friend. Much love and many smooches.

  • Doing life with you is just better. I'm so grateful to celebrate another birthday with you my best friend.

  • HBD to my BFF for life, I don't know what I'd do without you!

  • Thank GOODNESS my bestie entered the world today! Adore you to the moon and back!

  • Here's to another year of friendship, laughter, and getting up to no good together! Happy Birthday!

Meaningful Birthday Messages for Your Best Friend

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  • Today, we celebrate you for all of the amazing things you have brought into this world.

  • It's been an honor to watch you grow over the years. May the next one bring more blessings.

  • A bond like ours is rare, and I never take it for granted. Happy birthday bestie.

  • Having you as a friend is one of the best parts of my life. May your year be as fulfilling as your friendship.

  • I love you more than words can say. Thanks for being the world's best friend.

  • I'm so grateful you came into my life when you did. Happy birthday and I can't wait to celebrate many more!

  • Your friendship is one of the most valued relationships in my life. I can't wait to continue growing together.

  • Thank you for all that you've brought to my life. The happiest of birthdays to my favorite friend.

  • Birthdays come once a year, but best friends are once in a lifetime. I'm so happy to call you mine!

  • Thank you for always being by my side and having my back. I'd do anything for you, especially today on your birthday!

  • I am so honored to call you my best friend. You deserve every good thing that comes to you on your birthday and beyond.

  • I'm so happy we got to grow up side by side. Here's to many more birthdays together!

  • Wishing you all the happiness, joy, and blessings the world can offer on your birthday.

  • Thank you for always picking up the phone, for giving the world's best hugs, and for supporting everything I do. Here's to you on your birthday best friend!

  • Today is my favorite day because it's dedicated to my favorite person!

Birthday Quotes for Your Best Friend

  • "Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be." —Robert Browning

  • "True friends are like diamonds—bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style." —Nicole Richie

  • "Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you." —Misty Copeland

  • "The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate." —Oprah Winfrey

  • "Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears." —John Lennon

  • "Another year comes to a close, and another begins. May the coming year be one that will be filled with laughter of friends, love of family, and the life that you dream of." —Catherine Pulsifer

  • "We turn not older with years, but newer every day." —Emily Dickinson

  • "Every birthday is a gift. Every day is a gift." —Aretha Franklin

Emoji Birthday Wishes for Your Best Friend

  • Happy birthday to my dancing queen! 💃

  • It takes two to tango. 👯 Happy birthday!

  • On this day a queen/king was born! 👑

  • What is it they say about aging like fine wine? 🍷

  • My bestie takes the 🎂!

  • Cheers to leveling up! 🍾🥂

  • Hope your birthday is as cool you are! 🧊😎

  • You’re on fire, baby! 🔥 Happy birthday!

  • Another year older 👵, another year wiser. 📚

  • Such a joy to celebrate you since day 1! 🍼 👼

  • Wishing you another year full of adventures! ✈️ 🤠

  • 🎶 Tonight, we are young! 🎶

  • And she said, let them eat cake! 🎂

  • It's my top 🐶 birthday today!

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