50 birthday wishes for your wife that will make her smile (2024)

It’s your wife’s birthday, which means A) you’ve already purchased her a thoughtful gift and B) It’s time to express your adoration in a birthday card.

Of course, it’s hard to express your love and adoration of your better half in the real estate afforded by a greeting card (or text message if you’re supplementing a physical card with some digital wishes).

You can go the funny, sappy or sweet route, but whatever birthday wishes you share with your wife, make sure it comes from your heart and is custom tailored to your better half.

To that end, we’ve done the work for you and collected an assortment of birthday wishes for your wife to suit a variety of birthday party preferences. There are laugh-out-loud offerings and sentimental musings that sound straight out of the pages of Shakespeare.

Whichever birthday gifts and wishes you opt for, don’t forget to make sure the envelope is sealed with a kiss, and share this with fellow friends struggling to come up with just the right thing on their own wife’s joyous birthday occasion.

Romantic Birthday Wishes for Wife

• My love, my heart, happy birthday. You are my everything.
• Thanks for choosing to spend another trip around the sun with me. I’m so lucky to have you, my beautiful wife.
• Happy birthday, my darling. You continue to steal my heart each and every day.
• I can’t imagine life without you in it. Thank you for making everyday brighter and bigger.
• You are forever my one, my only, my truest love. I love you more than you’ll ever know.
• Every day with you is a gift. Here’s to many more happy and healthy years together, my beloved wife.
• I’m the luckiest guy in the world that you’re mine. Happy birthday!
• It’s impossible to make you feel as loved and adored as you do for me each and every day. I’m so lucky to have you. Happy birthday, my forevermore.
• You are the moon to my sun, the stars in my sky, the grass to my ground. Happy birthday, my love.
• You were my first true love and I know you’ll be my last. Happy birthday!
• My love for you is eternal. I celebrate you every day, but I’m especially grateful to have you in my life on this one.
• Happy birthday, my sweetheart. Where would I be without you?
• You make me feel so loved and cherished. Today, it’s all about celebrating how much better the world is because you are in it.
• I might not tell you this enough, but you are the best thing that has ever happened to me. My love for you grows stronger every day.
• You are the light of my life. What could be better than building a life with you?
• I hope you have a day as amazing as you are. I’m looking forward to celebrating how perfect you are, my honey.
• Words can’t express how much you mean to me. I hope my kisses do. I love you forever, birthday girl!
• You fill my life with immeasurable joy. I fall more deeply in love with you with every passing year. Happy birthday!
• Today’s plan: Shower you with love every single second. You deserve it, honey. Happy birthday!
• I’m so grateful to have found forever in your heart. Every day with you is special, but today even more so as you came into the world and changed it for the better.

Funny Birthday Wishes for Wife

• In the wise words of Lucille Ball, “The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.”
• I’m so glad you were born. Otherwise, who’d keep me in line?
• Happy birthday to the woman I love to nag the most!
• Robert Frost was onto something: “A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.”
• Happy birthday! You make my heart race, and on that note, I’ve got to go race to the corner store to pick you up some birthday frozen yogurt!
• Thanks for loving me despite my (very few) quirks! Happy birthday!
• Wow! You've managed to put up with me for another trip around the sun.
• Today, you can have the last cookie.
• I wasn’t sure what gift to get you for your birthday, since you already have the world’s greatest present: me!
• Happy birthday! I love you more than [favorite sports team], which is saying a lot.
• They say the secret to marriage is finding someone who can make you laugh. Good thing you found me!
• Happy birthday, my dear! After [X year/s] of marriage, I can still say you are my favorite person to drive crazy each and every day!
• Happy birthday, and remember these sage words from Tom Wilson: “Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.”
• Happy birthday to my gorgeous wife. (This card is valid for me agreeing with everything you say for one day only.)
• I was going to bake you a cake today, but then I realized you’re the only one in this house with any baking skills. Happy birthday!

Sweet Birthday Wishes for Wife

• In the wise words of Sammy Hagar, “Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.”
• I think Shirley Bassey said it best: “You don’t get older, you get better.”
• Happy birthday to the only person who knows all my secrets … and still chooses to be with me!
• Happy birthday, darling! I’ve hit the wife jackpot.
• Happily ever after is an understatement with you. I am the luckiest. Happy birthday!
• As Robert Browning once wrote, “Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made.”
• On this day [X] years ago, you came into the world. It’s been better for that blessing ever since! Happy birthday!
• You’re the most beautiful woman on the inside and outside. Happy birthday, my love.
• Holding your hand is my happy place. Happy birthday, sweetheart!
• I hope you have a day as sweet as you!
• To my amazing wife, as I reflect on today, your birthday, I’m so proud of you and grateful for you. Thank you for being you. Here’s to more memories and growing together!
• Wishing you a birthday as sweet as the chocolate cake that you adore so much.
• Calling you caring, beautiful, smart, ambitious and funny is just the tip of the iceberg.
• On this day, remember Emily Dickinson’s words: “We turn not older with years, but newer every day.”
• Spending our years together is my greatest honor. I hope your day is as joy-filled as you are. Happy birthday!