Christmas card or sympathy card or both

[BlueBloodedBlue]

Writing a card for a elderly gentleman whose wife sadly passed away last weekend.
We were going to meet at a friends but we are now not going but I'm dropping cards in.

What type of card do I send? Writing something in a Christmas card just seems a bit wrong so I'm leaning towards doing 2 cards?

A sympathy card in which you acknowledge his enormous loss and your thoughts are with him at such a poignant time of year.

How sad for him.

In the past I've seen a kind of gentle 'thinking of you this Christmas' type of card, but you might not want to go tweaking the shops looking for one.

If you already have them I'd go for both, but be very choosy about the words in the Christmas card.

Poor bloke, it's devastating anytime but right around Christmas there are so many additional reminders every bloody year.

I’d just go with the sympathy card.

Just a sympathy card but write something in it to acknowledge the time of year . You can’t wish someone a happy Christmas / new year when a spouse has just died .

Card factory sell a "sympathy" Christmas card x

Much better to write him a letter and enclose it in a fairly plain Christmas card.

How sad, I’d buy a card with a photograph of peaceful scene and write your words of sympathy and support in it.

Definitely no Christmas card, it’s going to be fucking awful for him. Just let him know you’re thinking of him with a sympathy or blank card.

I'd get a card with a gentle winter scene (snowy landscape rather than festive) and put a sympathy rather than happy Christmas message inside.

Thanks all. I went with a sympathy card and just added "thinking of you particularly at this time of the year"