Find wording by occasion
Each occasion below opens a dedicated guide covering register variations, tradition- specific phrasings, what tends to land, and the patterns that tend to land badly.
- Funeral / sympathy The locked register: six variations (warm-traditional, with religious language, brief and formal, for a close friend, for a non-religious writer, for a writer from a different tradition). What tends to land badly named directly.
- Wedding Wedding card register variations and tradition-specific phrasings across Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, Mainline Protestant, and Evangelical practice. Includes divorced / remarried and same-sex wedding considerations.
- Baptism Baptism card wording addressed to the parents (in paedobaptist traditions) or the candidate (in believer's baptism). Tradition phrasings for Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, Mainline, Evangelical.
- First Communion Card wording addressed to the candidate. Six register variations including the close-godparent register and the non-Catholic Christian writing to a Catholic family.
- Confirmation Confirmation card register, with attention to the candidate as a young adult making their own profession of faith. Tradition phrasings across Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, Methodist.
- Christmas Christmas card wording across the religious-vs-secular spectrum. Tradition-specific phrasings including the Orthodox "Christ is born! Glorify him!" and the Anglican Christmastide register.
- Anniversary Anniversary card wording including milestone years (25, 50), the religious dimension, and the divorced / widowed case treated honestly.
- Birthday Christian birthday card register including the Orthodox name day specifically, milestone birthdays, godparent-to-godchild cards, and the long-not-seen case.
- Quinceañera Quinceañera card wording across Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central American, and bilingual US Hispanic Catholic registers. The padrino/madrina card specifically.
What this hub does not currently cover
Ordination cards, child dedication cards, naming-rite cards, and parenting cards are thin categories in US Christian practice; the Phase 3 audit determined they did not warrant dedicated hub entries. Where a writer is composing a card for one of these occasions, the conventional register is normally to adapt the closest neighboring register (a baptism card for a dedication; a confirmation card for an adult baptism; a Christmas card for a Christian family at the seasonal moments).
Cross-cutting reference guides (card etiquette, the secular-writer-to-religious-recipient register, sympathy in special cases like child loss or sudden death) are planned as Phase 3 deepening work after the per-occasion hub is complete.