A New Year's Eve toast has a hard deadline: midnight. These New Year toasts are short enough to say before the countdown, with groups for the champagne moment, family, work and funny lines. There's also a group for when the past year was a hard one.
37 toasts. Tap copy, then swap in a name or a real detail.
Fifteen seconds or less. Good for any party, any time on New Year's Eve or New Year's Day.
Here's to the year we're leaving and everything it taught us, and to the year ahead and everything it's about to give us. Happy New Year!
To new beginnings, old friends and twelve fresh months that nobody has messed up yet. Cheers!
May the coming year bring you more of what makes you laugh and less of what keeps you up at night. Happy New Year.
To 365 new chances to get it right, and the good people who'll help us out when we don't. Happy New Year.
Out with the old, in with the new, and here's to the people who stuck around for both. Cheers, everyone.
To health, to happiness and to remembering to write the right year on everything by March. Happy New Year!
Let's raise a glass to every small win this year and the bigger ones waiting for us in the next. Cheers to [YEAR]!
Say the longer ones a minute before the countdown. Save the short ones for right after the clock strikes twelve.
We've got about a minute, so quickly: thank you for spending the last night of the year with me. There's no one I'd rather count down with. Happy New Year!
The clock just struck twelve. Look around. These are the people you started the year with, and that's a lucky way to start. Cheers!
Pop the cork and raise your glass. To the bubbles in our champagne and the fresh start in our hands. Happy New Year!
As the ball drops, let's drop our grudges, our worries and the diet we swore we'd start tomorrow. To midnight, and to us!
It's officially [YEAR]. May it be kinder than we expect, braver than we planned and full of nights just like this one. Cheers!
To the last minute of the old year and the first minute of the new one, and to sharing both of them with you. Happy New Year!
Clean, easy laughs for a party crowd.
Here's to the resolutions we'll make tonight and proudly forget by the third week of January. Cheers to optimism!
To another year of being older, wiser and still not sure where we left the phone charger. Happy New Year.
May your phone battery last until midnight, your shoes stop hurting by one and tomorrow morning go easy on you. Happy New Year!
I'd like to toast the gym, which is about to be very crowded for about two weeks. To the brave and the hopeful!
To staying up past midnight, which at our age deserves a medal and a long nap. Happy New Year, everyone.
Here's to last year, which went by faster than it took me to learn my new phone. Let's hope this one slows down a little. Cheers!
To the people who saw me at my worst this year and still invited me tonight. Your standards are low, and I love you for it. Cheers!
For a family party, a quiet night at home or a New Year's Day dinner.
To my family, who made this year worth it. Whatever the new year brings, I know we'll face it together. Happy New Year.
To the kids who tried so hard to stay awake until midnight. You made it, and so did we. Happy New Year!
Here's to another year of family dinners, inside jokes and showing up for each other. May the next one bring even more of all three.
To everyone at home tonight and everyone who wishes they were. Distance doesn't count on New Year's Eve. We're together where it matters.
To the year our family grew, with [NAME] joining us. May the new year bring you as much happiness as you've brought all of us.
To good health for the grandparents, patience for the parents and big dreams for the kids. Happy New Year to every one of us.
For a year-end team dinner, a client party or the first get-together in January.
To this team and everything we built together this year. I couldn't have asked for better people beside me. Here's to an even better year ahead.
Here's to this year's goals: the ones we hit and the ones we're going to crush next year. Thank you for all your hard work. Cheers!
To a new year with fewer meetings that could have been emails, and more wins like the ones you delivered this year. Happy New Year.
To our clients, our partners and this team. Thank you for a strong year. May the next one bring growth, good health and a few long weekends.
As we close the books on this year, I want to say thank you. Every one of you made a difference. To all of us, and to what comes next.
To fresh calendars, clean inboxes and the two quiet days before everyone gets busy again. Happy New Year, team.
Honest, hopeful lines for when the year that's ending asked a lot of everyone.
This year asked a lot of us. Here's to getting through it, to the people who helped and to a new year that gives a little more back.
To the year behind us: thank you for the lessons. To the year ahead: please go easy on us. Happy New Year.
To the ones we lost this year, who should be counting down with us tonight. We'll carry them into the new year with love.
May the new year bring you whatever you need most: rest, courage, a fresh start or just a really good night's sleep. Cheers.
Here's to turning the page. We don't know what's written on the next one, but we know who we're reading it with. Happy New Year.
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The best time is five to ten minutes before midnight, when everyone is gathered and glasses are full. Right at midnight is too noisy for anything longer than "Happy New Year!" If you're hosting a dinner, you can also give a toast during dessert and keep the midnight moment for the countdown, a quick cheers and hugs.
Keep it to one line, because everyone is cheering. Try: "It's officially a new year. Here's to all of us!" or "To the people we started the year with. Cheers!" Raise your glass, clink with the people near you and drink. If you want to say something longer, do it a minute before the countdown starts.
"To new beginnings, old friends and twelve fresh months nobody has messed up yet. Cheers!" works almost anywhere. A short New Year toast should look back for a moment, look ahead with hope and end with a clear raise of the glass. Under 20 seconds is plenty at a party where people are standing and talking.
Thank the team for something specific they did this year, mention one challenge you got through together, and say what you're looking forward to. Keep it to about a minute and skip detailed targets or numbers. Make sure there are non-alcoholic drinks, and don't make anyone feel they have to drink to join in.
Yes. In Scotland, where New Year's Eve is called Hogmanay, people sing "Auld Lang Syne," and an old Scots wish is "Lang may yer lum reek," meaning "long may your chimney smoke." Spanish speakers say "¡Feliz Año Nuevo!" and in Spain many people eat twelve grapes at midnight. In Ireland, "Sláinte" (health) works for any toast.
Yes. The free toast generator on this page writes a New Year toast from a few details, such as who you're with and whether you want it funny or heartfelt. You get a few free uses per day. Practice it once out loud before the party so you can say it without reading it from your phone.