Significance of Greeting Cards

“Greeting card” is the best way to express the unsaid words and to convey your innermost feelings. Choose a greeting card to express your sentiment. The significance of greeting cards in our life is directly related to the sentiments shaping the journey of our life. A greeting card contains the words and sentiments you feel, expressed in different ways.

The world has grasped the significance of greeting cards and thus the industry of greeting cards is flourishing and fast enlarging. Usually people give greeting cards in special occasions but you can choose our own occasion to give a greeting card. The practice of sending greeting cards started from sending New Year messages. This practice originated in ancient China, the Chinese people exchanged good wishes during New Year. In ancient Egypt, people send greetings and messages in papyrus scrolls. In Europe handmade greeting cards were exchanged during early 1400s. During 1400, the Germans exchanged New Year’s greetings. In 1400 people of Europe exchanged Valentines wishes in handmade greeting cards.

During the 1850’s greeting cards underwent a major transformation. From expensive handmade gifts they became personal communication vehicles of affordable range. The advances in mechanization and printing during the 1850s played big role in this transformation.

Greeting cards enhance the significance of several occasions. The significance of an occasion or your feelings is emphasized in the greeting cards. Whether it is personal sentiments, sympathy, life events, holidays, anniversaries or specific events you can send a greeting card to your near and dear one.

Some of the popular occasions to send greeting cards are:

* New Year
* Hanukkah
* Christmas
* Samhain
* Imbolc
* Winter Solstice
* Chinese New Year
* Dong Zhi
* Epiphany
* Feat of Fools
* Feast of Circumcision
* Watch Night
* Holy Innocent’s Day
* Saint John the Evangelist’s Day
* Saint Stephen’s Day
* Saint Nicholas’ Day
* St. Valentine’s Day
* Candlemas
* Yule
* Modranect
* Purim
* Tu Bishvat
* Eid ul-Adha
* Sadeh
* Chahar Shanbeh Suri
* Yalda
* Lupercalia
* Saturnalia
* Diwali
* Dasera
* Gandhi Jayanti
* Holi
* Jamshed Navroz

Ever thought about sending greeting cards for unusual occasions? Some of the unusual occasions when you can send greeting cards are:

* Throw Out Your Leftovers Day
* Pie in the Face Day
* Freckle Pride Day
* Electric Guitar day
* Espresso Day
* False Confessions Day
* Equal Opportunity Day
* Air Your Dirty Laundry Day
* Stop the Violence Day
* Buy Nothing Day
* Turkey Leftovers Day
* World Television Day

There are business greeting cards too. Businesses send these greeting cards to their customers in different seasons.

123Greetings,American Greetings and Hallmark Cards produce the largest number of greeting cards. With the expanse of greeting cards industry, the significance of greeting cards is permeating every sphere of your life.

Buck up your life, by expressing your thoughts and feelings in a stylish way through a greeting card.