Diwali wishes for love: girlfriend, boyfriend, husband or wife

Diwali is on Sunday, 8 November 2026. By 9 am that morning the family group will have 40 forwards with the same golden diya on them, and the person you love will have read every one. Don't add to that pile. Send them something with their name in it and one detail only you'd know.

This page has Diwali wishes for love in every form you'll need: short lines for a girlfriend or boyfriend, lines for a husband or wife, romantic ones, status one-liners, long-distance ones built around a video call, Hinglish lines, and two long messages you can send as a letter. Dhanteras is Friday the 6th and Bhai Dooj is Wednesday the 11th, if you're planning the week.

Copy any line, change the detail to yours, and send it on WhatsApp. If it's a long one, write it as a letter in the Love Letter app (Android and iOS).

Start here: 10 Diwali wishes for love you can copy now

Ten lines that work for any partner. Pick one, swap in a detail of yours, and send it.

Happy Diwali to the person I'd share the last piece of kaju katli with. Nobody else gets that offer.
The balcony lights are up, the diyas are lit, and the best thing in this house is still you.
First diya's yours. Happy Diwali, love.
Every diya tonight is for you. Except the one near the gas stove, that's for safety.
You, me, mithai, no crackers. That's my whole Diwali plan.
This year the rangoli is crooked and the ladoos are from a shop, but you're here, so it counts as a good one.
I cleaned the whole house this week. The puja was the excuse. You were the reason.
Light the first diya with me tonight. I don't want to do it with anyone else.
Diwali looks better with you in new clothes and ladoo crumbs on your shirt. Come over.
One wish this Diwali: next year, same lights, same you.

Diwali wishes for girlfriend

For the girl who sent you her rangoli photo before her own mummy saw it. If you typed Diwali wishes for gf into Google at 11 pm with the family group still buzzing, this is your section.

Happy Diwali, my favourite notification. Reply before the aunties do.
Your rangoli beat every rangoli on my street, and I haven't even seen the others.
I lit a diya on my balcony and pointed it towards your house. Not useful. Still did it.
This Diwali I don't want crackers. I want you on the terrace at 7 pm with two cups of chai.
My mummy sent a mithai box and the top layer is yours. The cousins have been told.
Happy Diwali to the girl who turned new-clothes shopping into a competition I'm glad to lose.
Saree photo first. Then we talk.
You said you'd eat one ladoo. I have faith in you. I also have four more ladoos.
If your mummy asks who keeps messaging, say it's the office group. Then come to the window.
Diwali is at your house this year and I'm at mine, so I've saved you a sparkler. It's in my pocket. Hurry.
Still can't believe the girl who hates sweeping cleaned her whole room for one puja. Send proof.
No forward for you. You get the real one: I'm glad you exist, and gladder you're mine.
Sparklers burn for thirty seconds. Your voice note from this morning, I've played six times.
Forty fairy lights on my balcony and I'm still waiting for the one notification that matters. Yours.
Between the cleaning and the relatives, you still found two minutes to call me. That's the girl I picked.

Diwali wishes for boyfriend

He's at his parents' place in the one kurta he owns, and he has promised to call after the puja. These are for him.

Happy Diwali to the boy who owns exactly one kurta and still looks better in it than every cousin.
Your mummy's ladoos on my plate and you on my screen. That's my Diwali sorted.
Light one diya for me at your place. Put it somewhere the dog can't reach.
I know you'll do crackers with the cousins. Keep your eyebrows. I like them.
Kurta photo. Now. Happy Diwali.
You once said rangoli is "just coloured powder". I'm making one anyway and it's going to spell your name. Deal with it.
This Diwali I wished for you during the puja. My mummy asked why I was smiling. I said ladoo.
The best thing I bought on Dhanteras was nothing. The best thing I have, I already had. Sappy, but it's Diwali.
Eat one more ladoo for me. Then stop, your mummy is counting.
Diwali with you is Maggi at 1 am and a fight over the last sparkler. I'd pick it over any party.
Four days of cleaning at my house and your one message was "need help?" You didn't come, but it counted. Just about.
If your mummy asks who's the girl in the photo, tell her the truth. It's Diwali, lies are bad luck.
Stop sending me forwards. You're the boyfriend. Type something.
Our first Diwali, you brought me a mithai box with the shop bill still inside. I kept the bill. Happy Diwali, you idiot.
Every year the lights on your building are the ugliest on the street and I'd still rather sit under them with you.

Diwali wishes for husband

For the man who hung the lights on the balcony and then asked where the ladder goes. Send one before the house fills up on the morning of 8 November, or after the puja when he's finally sitting down.

Happy Diwali to the husband who found my lost earrings during cleaning week. You get one extra ladoo as reward.
Another Diwali with you and you still can't fold a kurta. I'm not complaining, I like doing it.
You did the thali and I did the rangoli. The kids did the mess. Happy Diwali, team.
Happy Diwali to the man who eats the soan papdi so the rest of us don't have to.
Each October you say "fewer lights this year". The balcony still looks like an airport. Don't change.
I married you in [year] and I'd do it again, mostly for the way you light the first diya and then check it four times.
Our house smells like ghee and your aftershave. That's Diwali to me now.
Lights hung, ladder lost. Classic you.
You, me, the balcony and the fairy lights after everyone has left. That's the part I wait for all day.
Dhanteras shopping was a test. You passed by not asking "do we need this" even once.
Nobody sees the part where you hang the lights and then act like the kids did it. I see it. Happy Diwali.
Puja at 7, dinner at 9, you asleep on the sofa by 10 with the remote in your hand while I finish your kheer. Same as every year. Happy Diwali.

Diwali wishes for wife

She ran the whole thing: the cleaning, the mithai, the puja list, the gift for your mother. Say that, in your own words, before she falls asleep on the sofa.

Happy Diwali to the woman who cleaned every cupboard in this house and then asked me if the balcony looked okay. It looks okay because of you.
The rangoli at our door is yours, and so are the diyas. My only job was not stepping on them. Happy Diwali, boss.
You in that saree at the puja tonight is the only thing I'm going to remember from this Diwali.
I know you made the ladoos, and I know you told my mother they were from the shop. Your secret stays with me.
Our first Diwali, you burnt the kheer. This year the neighbours asked for the recipe. Growth.
Diyas go out by midnight. The way you run this house doesn't. Happy Diwali, and thank you.
Your rangoli won the building. Again.
Happy Diwali to the woman who made my mother's favourite mithai from memory and then said it was easy.
Nobody warned me that marrying you meant a Diwali shopping list with my name as item seven. Worth it.
Save me one jalebi and the chair next to you. The relatives can have the rest.
Tonight, after the guests leave and the diyas are down to a flicker, sit with me on the balcony. That's my only Diwali ask.
You bought new clothes for everyone in this house and wore your old saree. Next Diwali, I'm doing your shopping first.

Romantic Diwali wishes for your partner

For when you want to say it straight. Use these after the guests leave and the second round of chai is on.

The diyas will go out by morning. What I feel for you has lasted [number] Diwalis and isn't going anywhere.
I don't need the balcony lights to find you. I'd find you in a power cut.
Happy Diwali, love. First diya of the evening, I want you next to me. Last one too.
Every October I think I know how much I love you. Then the diyas get lit and I find out I was short.
Power cut or fairy lights, I pick you.
If the lights and the mithai disappeared tonight, I'd still have the best part of Diwali. You're sitting next to me.
Light the first diya with me. I want every Diwali to start the same way, your hand on mine.
Happy Diwali to the person who made my quiet flat a home with one string of fairy lights and a lot of patience.
Some people wait all year for the lights. I wait for the moment you look up from the diya and catch me looking.
My wish during the puja was simple: let the person next to me stay next to me.

Short Diwali wishes for love: WhatsApp status and captions

One line each, short enough for a status. Put their name at the end if you want it to land harder.

The diyas are lit and you're late. Hurry.
My favourite light this Diwali isn't on the balcony.
Happy Diwali to my plus one for every puja.
Sparkler in one hand, you in the other.
Lights on the balcony, you on the sofa.
Not a forward. Happy Diwali, "name".
Diwali plan: you, chai, balcony, no crackers.
Fairy lights for the balcony. You for everything else.
One diya for the house, one for you.
Cleaned the house. Kept you. Happy Diwali.
Mithai is sweet. You're sweeter. Yes, I said it.
Happy Diwali from the chair next to yours.

Diwali wishes for a long-distance love

Diwali leave got rejected, or the train tickets were gone by September. These are for a partner in another city, with a video call during the puja. If you want to count the days until you're in the same room again, the Miss you card has a day counter and letters they open later, and it opens from a link on their phone.

The diya on my windowsill tonight is for the side of the sofa you usually take. Happy Diwali from [city].
Tickets sold out in September and my leave got rejected in October. You're still the first person I'm wishing.
I'll light the first diya when you light yours. Count to three on the call so we do it together.
Happy Diwali, far-away person. The balcony lights are up and they're pointing at your city. Roughly.
Your mummy couriered the ladoos and they reached, you didn't. I'm eating them anyway and missing you per bite.
Two cities, one puja time. Pick up at 6:58.
I kept your kurta from last Diwali. It's on the chair, which is almost the same as having you here. Almost.
Happy Diwali, [name]. Count the days with me: [number] left till the same balcony.
Distance is a bad Diwali guest. It eats the mithai and gives nothing back. Next year we don't invite it.
Send me a photo of your diyas and I'll send mine. We'll put them side by side and call it one house.

First Diwali together, and first Diwali after the wedding

The first Diwali with someone is a mess in the best way. Two families, two sets of mithai boxes, and nobody agrees on how the thali goes. Say it like that.

Our first Diwali and we've already fought about whose mummy's rangoli is better. Mine. Happy Diwali, love.
First Diwali after the wedding and I've learnt that your family does the puja at 6 and mine at 8. We're doing both. Eat early.
Happy first Diwali, wife. The flat has eleven fairy lights and one chair. We'll share.
New flat, no ladder. Lights are up anyway. You did that, I held the stool.
Last Diwali you were a name my mummy hadn't heard. This Diwali she's asking what mithai you like. Progress.
First Diwali as husband and wife and we forgot to buy diyas. The neighbour lent us six. That's our story now.
Your thali, my rangoli. One complete Diwali.
Twenty mithai boxes came in from both sides. Twenty will go out. Welcome to married Diwali, [name].

Hinglish Diwali lines for your love

For when English sounds too formal and they read Hinglish anyway. Spell it the way you say it, and flip the verb endings (aaunga, aaungi) to match who's writing.

Happy Diwali jaan. Diye maine jalaye, lekin pehla wala tumhare naam ka hai.
Ghar ki safai ho gayi. Ab tum aa jao, warna mehnat bekar hai.
Mithai ka dabba khol liya hai. Aadha tumhara hai, par lene khud aana padega.
Phuljhadi tumhare liye bacha ke rakhi hai. Baaki sab cousin ne udaa di.
Mummy ne pucha Diwali pe kaun aa raha hai. Maine kaha ek dost. Abhi ke liye dost hi rehna.
Tumhare bina Diwali bhi aam Sunday jaisi lagti hai. Aur is baar Diwali Sunday ko hi hai, toh aa jao.
Is baar crackers chhodo. Balcony pe do cup chai aur tum. Deal?
Soan papdi ka dabba ghoom ke hamare ghar aaya hai. Tumhare ghar bhi aayega. Mat lena.
Jab tak tum nahi aate, pehla diya nahi jalega. Jaldi aao, mummy ghoor rahi hai.
Happy Diwali, meri jaan. Agle saal yeh message nahi aayega, main khud aaunga.
Mithai baad mein. Pehle tum.
Tum saath ho toh Diwali hai. Nahi toh bas ek chhutti.

Long Diwali messages for your love

For the Love Letter app, a card, or one WhatsApp message you type out properly. Change the details in brackets to yours. If you're stuck on the first line, the 15 love letter prompts post has openers.

Happy Diwali, [name]. I know you're reading this between your mummy calling you to hold the thali and your brother asking where the matchbox went, so I'll keep it short. Last Diwali I didn't know you. I was on the terrace with my cousins and a packet of sparklers, and I remember thinking it was a good night. This year I'm on the same terrace with the same cousins, and I keep checking my phone for your photo in the new kurta. That's the whole difference you've made. A normal night now has someone I want to show it to. I lit a diya for you, the small clay one, near the window that faces [your area]. I'll keep it going till I hear from you. Don't let your cousin take the last piece of kaju katli, that one's yours and we both know it. Call me after the puja. I'll be on the terrace with the one sparkler I saved. Next year I want to be the one holding the thali at your place.

[Name], it's Diwali again and I want to say this before the house fills up. Every shelf in this flat got cleaned this week, by you. Along the way you found my old watch, the kids' report cards from [year], a cricket ball we'd given up on, and the receipt for the first fairy lights we bought when we moved in. I watched you sit on the floor with that receipt for a full minute. I didn't say anything then, so I'm saying it now. The lights on our balcony have changed every year. The person who climbs the stool to hang them hasn't. You still light the brass diya your mother gave us first, before anyone else is awake, and then act like you didn't. I notice. I've noticed for [number] Diwalis. Tonight, after the last relative has left, leave the dishes. Sit with me on the balcony for ten minutes, no phone. I'll bring the kheer you say you don't want and then finish half of. Happy Diwali, [name]. I'd pick this balcony and you every single year.

How to send it so it isn't lost in the forward flood

On Diwali morning every phone has 60 unread messages, most of them the same golden diya image. A few things help yours get read.

Send it as a direct message, before 8 am or after the puja, when the forwards slow down. Use their name and one detail only you know. A forward can't do that.

For a long one, write it as a letter in the Love Letter app (Android and iOS) instead of a WhatsApp text that scrolls away in two seconds.

If you're apart this Diwali, the Miss you card has a day counter to the next time you meet and letters they open later. It opens from a link on their phone, no app to install, so send it right after the puja call.

Frequently asked questions

Is it okay to wish my girlfriend before the family WhatsApp group?

Yes, wish her first, in a direct message, before you open the family group. The group gets a forward and she gets a line with her name in it. If your family doesn't know about her yet, send it late on the 7th or early on the 8th, when nobody is reading over your shoulder.

What do I write if we're not meeting this Diwali?

Name the diya you lit and the time you'll call. "One diya at the window for you, I'm calling at 7 during the puja, next year we do this in one house" is a full message on its own. Add the date you'll see each other next if you have one, because a date is better than "soon".

Should the Diwali message be in Hindi or English?

Write it in whatever the two of you text in on a normal Tuesday. If your chats are Hinglish, a pure English wish reads like a forward. Hindi typed in Roman script is fine, you don't need Devanagari, and one English line with one Hinglish line in the same message works too.

Can I use the same lines for Dhanteras and Bhai Dooj?

Dhanteras (Friday, 6 November) is mostly a shopping day, so a one-liner from the short section does the job. Bhai Dooj (Wednesday, 11 November) is for brothers and sisters, so it needs different lines; the Bhai Dooj wishes page has them.

Copy any line, change the detail to yours, and send it on WhatsApp. If it's a long one, write it as a letter in the Love Letter app (Android and iOS).

Start here: 10 Diwali wishes for love you can copy now

Ten lines that work for any partner. Pick one, swap in a detail of yours, and send it.

Happy Diwali to the person I'd share the last piece of kaju katli with. Nobody else gets that offer.
The balcony lights are up, the diyas are lit, and the best thing in this house is still you.
First diya's yours. Happy Diwali, love.
Every diya tonight is for you. Except the one near the gas stove, that's for safety.
You, me, mithai, no crackers. That's my whole Diwali plan.
This year the rangoli is crooked and the ladoos are from a shop, but you're here, so it counts as a good one.
I cleaned the whole house this week. The puja was the excuse. You were the reason.
Light the first diya with me tonight. I don't want to do it with anyone else.
Diwali looks better with you in new clothes and ladoo crumbs on your shirt. Come over.
One wish this Diwali: next year, same lights, same you.

Diwali wishes for girlfriend

For the girl who sent you her rangoli photo before her own mummy saw it. If you typed Diwali wishes for gf into Google at 11 pm with the family group still buzzing, this is your section.

Happy Diwali, my favourite notification. Reply before the aunties do.
Your rangoli beat every rangoli on my street, and I haven't even seen the others.
I lit a diya on my balcony and pointed it towards your house. Not useful. Still did it.
This Diwali I don't want crackers. I want you on the terrace at 7 pm with two cups of chai.
My mummy sent a mithai box and the top layer is yours. The cousins have been told.
Happy Diwali to the girl who turned new-clothes shopping into a competition I'm glad to lose.
Saree photo first. Then we talk.
You said you'd eat one ladoo. I have faith in you. I also have four more ladoos.
If your mummy asks who keeps messaging, say it's the office group. Then come to the window.
Diwali is at your house this year and I'm at mine, so I've saved you a sparkler. It's in my pocket. Hurry.
Still can't believe the girl who hates sweeping cleaned her whole room for one puja. Send proof.
No forward for you. You get the real one: I'm glad you exist, and gladder you're mine.
Sparklers burn for thirty seconds. Your voice note from this morning, I've played six times.
Forty fairy lights on my balcony and I'm still waiting for the one notification that matters. Yours.
Between the cleaning and the relatives, you still found two minutes to call me. That's the girl I picked.

Diwali wishes for boyfriend

He's at his parents' place in the one kurta he owns, and he has promised to call after the puja. These are for him.

Happy Diwali to the boy who owns exactly one kurta and still looks better in it than every cousin.
Your mummy's ladoos on my plate and you on my screen. That's my Diwali sorted.
Light one diya for me at your place. Put it somewhere the dog can't reach.
I know you'll do crackers with the cousins. Keep your eyebrows. I like them.
Kurta photo. Now. Happy Diwali.
You once said rangoli is "just coloured powder". I'm making one anyway and it's going to spell your name. Deal with it.
This Diwali I wished for you during the puja. My mummy asked why I was smiling. I said ladoo.
The best thing I bought on Dhanteras was nothing. The best thing I have, I already had. Sappy, but it's Diwali.
Eat one more ladoo for me. Then stop, your mummy is counting.
Diwali with you is Maggi at 1 am and a fight over the last sparkler. I'd pick it over any party.
Four days of cleaning at my house and your one message was "need help?" You didn't come, but it counted. Just about.
If your mummy asks who's the girl in the photo, tell her the truth. It's Diwali, lies are bad luck.
Stop sending me forwards. You're the boyfriend. Type something.
Our first Diwali, you brought me a mithai box with the shop bill still inside. I kept the bill. Happy Diwali, you idiot.
Every year the lights on your building are the ugliest on the street and I'd still rather sit under them with you.

Diwali wishes for husband

For the man who hung the lights on the balcony and then asked where the ladder goes. Send one before the house fills up on the morning of 8 November, or after the puja when he's finally sitting down.

Happy Diwali to the husband who found my lost earrings during cleaning week. You get one extra ladoo as reward.
Another Diwali with you and you still can't fold a kurta. I'm not complaining, I like doing it.
You did the thali and I did the rangoli. The kids did the mess. Happy Diwali, team.
Happy Diwali to the man who eats the soan papdi so the rest of us don't have to.
Each October you say "fewer lights this year". The balcony still looks like an airport. Don't change.
I married you in [year] and I'd do it again, mostly for the way you light the first diya and then check it four times.
Our house smells like ghee and your aftershave. That's Diwali to me now.
Lights hung, ladder lost. Classic you.
You, me, the balcony and the fairy lights after everyone has left. That's the part I wait for all day.
Dhanteras shopping was a test. You passed by not asking "do we need this" even once.
Nobody sees the part where you hang the lights and then act like the kids did it. I see it. Happy Diwali.
Puja at 7, dinner at 9, you asleep on the sofa by 10 with the remote in your hand while I finish your kheer. Same as every year. Happy Diwali.

Diwali wishes for wife

She ran the whole thing: the cleaning, the mithai, the puja list, the gift for your mother. Say that, in your own words, before she falls asleep on the sofa.

Happy Diwali to the woman who cleaned every cupboard in this house and then asked me if the balcony looked okay. It looks okay because of you.
The rangoli at our door is yours, and so are the diyas. My only job was not stepping on them. Happy Diwali, boss.
You in that saree at the puja tonight is the only thing I'm going to remember from this Diwali.
I know you made the ladoos, and I know you told my mother they were from the shop. Your secret stays with me.
Our first Diwali, you burnt the kheer. This year the neighbours asked for the recipe. Growth.
Diyas go out by midnight. The way you run this house doesn't. Happy Diwali, and thank you.
Your rangoli won the building. Again.
Happy Diwali to the woman who made my mother's favourite mithai from memory and then said it was easy.
Nobody warned me that marrying you meant a Diwali shopping list with my name as item seven. Worth it.
Save me one jalebi and the chair next to you. The relatives can have the rest.
Tonight, after the guests leave and the diyas are down to a flicker, sit with me on the balcony. That's my only Diwali ask.
You bought new clothes for everyone in this house and wore your old saree. Next Diwali, I'm doing your shopping first.

Romantic Diwali wishes for your partner

For when you want to say it straight. Use these after the guests leave and the second round of chai is on.

The diyas will go out by morning. What I feel for you has lasted [number] Diwalis and isn't going anywhere.
I don't need the balcony lights to find you. I'd find you in a power cut.
Happy Diwali, love. First diya of the evening, I want you next to me. Last one too.
Every October I think I know how much I love you. Then the diyas get lit and I find out I was short.
Power cut or fairy lights, I pick you.
If the lights and the mithai disappeared tonight, I'd still have the best part of Diwali. You're sitting next to me.
Light the first diya with me. I want every Diwali to start the same way, your hand on mine.
Happy Diwali to the person who made my quiet flat a home with one string of fairy lights and a lot of patience.
Some people wait all year for the lights. I wait for the moment you look up from the diya and catch me looking.
My wish during the puja was simple: let the person next to me stay next to me.

Short Diwali wishes for love: WhatsApp status and captions

One line each, short enough for a status. Put their name at the end if you want it to land harder.

The diyas are lit and you're late. Hurry.
My favourite light this Diwali isn't on the balcony.
Happy Diwali to my plus one for every puja.
Sparkler in one hand, you in the other.
Lights on the balcony, you on the sofa.
Not a forward. Happy Diwali, "name".
Diwali plan: you, chai, balcony, no crackers.
Fairy lights for the balcony. You for everything else.
One diya for the house, one for you.
Cleaned the house. Kept you. Happy Diwali.
Mithai is sweet. You're sweeter. Yes, I said it.
Happy Diwali from the chair next to yours.

Diwali wishes for a long-distance love

The diya on my windowsill tonight is for the side of the sofa you usually take. Happy Diwali from [city].
Tickets sold out in September and my leave got rejected in October. You're still the first person I'm wishing.
I'll light the first diya when you light yours. Count to three on the call so we do it together.
Happy Diwali, far-away person. The balcony lights are up and they're pointing at your city. Roughly.
Your mummy couriered the ladoos and they reached, you didn't. I'm eating them anyway and missing you per bite.
Two cities, one puja time. Pick up at 6:58.
I kept your kurta from last Diwali. It's on the chair, which is almost the same as having you here. Almost.
Happy Diwali, [name]. Count the days with me: [number] left till the same balcony.
Distance is a bad Diwali guest. It eats the mithai and gives nothing back. Next year we don't invite it.
Send me a photo of your diyas and I'll send mine. We'll put them side by side and call it one house.

First Diwali together, and first Diwali after the wedding

The first Diwali with someone is a mess in the best way. Two families, two sets of mithai boxes, and nobody agrees on how the thali goes. Say it like that.

Our first Diwali and we've already fought about whose mummy's rangoli is better. Mine. Happy Diwali, love.
First Diwali after the wedding and I've learnt that your family does the puja at 6 and mine at 8. We're doing both. Eat early.
Happy first Diwali, wife. The flat has eleven fairy lights and one chair. We'll share.
New flat, no ladder. Lights are up anyway. You did that, I held the stool.
Last Diwali you were a name my mummy hadn't heard. This Diwali she's asking what mithai you like. Progress.
First Diwali as husband and wife and we forgot to buy diyas. The neighbour lent us six. That's our story now.
Your thali, my rangoli. One complete Diwali.
Twenty mithai boxes came in from both sides. Twenty will go out. Welcome to married Diwali, [name].

Hinglish Diwali lines for your love

For when English sounds too formal and they read Hinglish anyway. Spell it the way you say it, and flip the verb endings (aaunga, aaungi) to match who's writing.

Happy Diwali jaan. Diye maine jalaye, lekin pehla wala tumhare naam ka hai.
Ghar ki safai ho gayi. Ab tum aa jao, warna mehnat bekar hai.
Mithai ka dabba khol liya hai. Aadha tumhara hai, par lene khud aana padega.
Phuljhadi tumhare liye bacha ke rakhi hai. Baaki sab cousin ne udaa di.
Mummy ne pucha Diwali pe kaun aa raha hai. Maine kaha ek dost. Abhi ke liye dost hi rehna.
Tumhare bina Diwali bhi aam Sunday jaisi lagti hai. Aur is baar Diwali Sunday ko hi hai, toh aa jao.
Is baar crackers chhodo. Balcony pe do cup chai aur tum. Deal?
Soan papdi ka dabba ghoom ke hamare ghar aaya hai. Tumhare ghar bhi aayega. Mat lena.
Jab tak tum nahi aate, pehla diya nahi jalega. Jaldi aao, mummy ghoor rahi hai.
Happy Diwali, meri jaan. Agle saal yeh message nahi aayega, main khud aaunga.
Mithai baad mein. Pehle tum.
Tum saath ho toh Diwali hai. Nahi toh bas ek chhutti.

Long Diwali messages for your love

How to send it so it isn't lost in the forward flood

On Diwali morning every phone has 60 unread messages, most of them the same golden diya image. A few things help yours get read.

Send it as a direct message, before 8 am or after the puja, when the forwards slow down. Use their name and one detail only you know. A forward can't do that.

For a long one, write it as a letter in the Love Letter app (Android and iOS) instead of a WhatsApp text that scrolls away in two seconds.