All companies want to put their best foot forward when sending Business Christmas Cards; the cards are chosen carefully, the best card stock, the best embossing and foil but if there are grammatical mistakes, all is ruined. Remember all of the times you receive an email or letter and the grammar is atrocious, your reaction is, “oh my, didn’t they read this before sending?” well proof reading also applies to Corporate Christmas Cards.
Here are five of the most common grammatical mistakes:
- Season’s Greetings is correct not Seasons Greetings – use an apostrophe.
- However, there is no apostrophe after a family’s last name for example, The Wards is correct The Ward’s is not.
- Please write Happy New Year, not Happy New Year’s or Happy New Years, this even sounds wrong.
- The word Christmas should always be capitalized, but the word merry should not be capitalized unless you are starting the line with the greeting “Merry Christmas.” If merry falls in the middle of a sentence, it should not be capitalized.
- When writing a message in your Corporate Christmas Card please remember that it is correct to say “The Board of Directors and I wish you a…” not “The Board of Directors and me wish you a…”
Asking someone to proof read your Business Christmas Cards may seem silly but sending out the “wrong message” is even sillier.