How to write a Holiday Letter

To write a holiday letter users or readers can opt for Letter Writing Tips, Letter Writing Guide, Letter Formats and/or Letter Templates etc. Readers can go through these in any manner they find suitable, however it is highly suggested that they should start with Letter Writing Tips. This has been done to make it convenient for the readers to understand the letter writing process through varied approaches as one approach might not be suitable for all.

Holiday Letter Writing Tips

Writing a holiday letter is an easy task considering that you have to word your experiences, there is no compulsion of format as such and grammatical errors are ignorable. But for exceptions to the letters sent to clients or other business oriented holiday letters, one can take a lot of liberties.

• Subject Matter – Decide what you want to write? If it is a recent holiday then the memories will still be fresh and you wouldn’t need to recall much. But if the memories are distant then you will have to probe a bit deep into your mind and become nostalgic as well to bring out the emotions. You may require old albums, photographs or travel itineraries to help you in recalling the departed moments. Anything connected with the holidays will be needed to make your letter interesting.

• Outline – Prepare an outline of your letter just as an artist prepares sketch outlines before the final piece. Here you will have to build a chronology of events in terms of what, when, where and how? If your letter has a proper chronology it would be read and applauded with pleasure. Take into consideration the person who will be reading it, keep that in mind and then decide what to write.

• Say it with Pics and any Memorabilia - Not a necessity but more of an enthusiastic or glittery approach. It is very much obvious that you did take photographs during your holiday trip or you may have some pictures of the respective holiday. Use them and build a story just like a comic strip. You don’t need to be so meticulous just staple, stick or pin down the photo along the text, below it or above it but always where the text supports it. You can attach any small souvenir, card or use theme based stationary.

• Online Materials – The internet is packed with images of all sorts and when it comes to holidays they have special items for each occasion. Use theme based fonts, clipart, templates, backgrounds, layouts etc. in your letter to make it more memorable and exciting.

• Highlight the Main Events – You can use a variety of methods to highlight the main events of your holiday or anything which needs to addressed. Use any coloured pen to highlight them or any symbol to make them evident. It will make it easy for the recipient to read if he/she is in hurry. You can just highlight them by making the main alphabets appear in Bold.

• Heading – You can make your letter more unique or interesting if you use a suitable heading at the beginning or end of the letter. It will show how much you enjoyed your holiday plus it will easily grab the attention of the recipient and the following text material. It will also show your enthusiasm regarding the letter. You can use wordings like “I Came and I Conquered Rome”, “Happy Holidays from the Kumars”, “Bon Voyage”, “De Tour Highlights” or anything that is in accordance with your letter. However, not all these suggestions would be applicable on business holiday letters.

• Positive Impact – Your holiday letter is mean to start and end on a happy note.  It is also required that it leaves behind a positive feel. Towards this end it should in no way sound as if the as if the writer is trying to tease the reader that s/he could go for the holiday and not the reader. So always use exciting and thrilling adjectives so that the reader can live the moments that are being shared.

• Timely written and delivered - A Holiday Letter must be written as soon as one returns from the holiday so that the freshness shows in the letter. If you are writing just to wish happy holidays even then write it well before or during the time of the upcoming event. Ensure that there are no public holidays on the day you are going post the letter.

• Handwritten - A hand written Holiday Letter is better than a typed because it shows effort towards the recipient and values him/her through this gesture. However if handwriting is an issue, you can always type the letter.

• Short Length - A very lengthy letter does not keep the attention of the reader on the letter so make it crisp from beginning to end.

• Keep it Short – Don’t get carried away with storytelling and make the letter unnecessary longer, it will only burden the recipient and eventual “Give-up”. So maintain your story to 4-5 highlights.

• Review it – While you may not find anything missing, short or inappropriate in yourself review of the letter but your family and others may find some or the other inappropriate or unrequited matter. So let them read and follow their advice.

Holiday Letter Format