Greeting cards are sent in Germany
on the following occasions:
Birthday
Patron Saint's Day
Birth of a child
Baptism
One's first school day
Leaving school
Passing school-leaving exams
Passing exams
Graduation
Appointment to a new position
Promotion
Attaining a driving licence
Purchasing a new car
Engagement
Pre-wedding festivities (older form: non-formal party, no invitation)
Pre-wedding festivities (newer form: no extra wedding party,
with invitation)
Wedding
Wedding anniversaries
Starting up a new business
Transfer of a business ownwership
Re-opening of a store
Setting up the roof of a new house
Moving into a new house / apartment
Moving from one house / apartment to another
Owing a new home
Owing a new apartment
Anniversery
Working anniversary
Business anniversary
Priesthood anniversary
Anniversary of a religious order
Ordination as a priest
Celebrating one's first mass as a priest (Roman Catholic)
Wishing convalescence
Asking for forgiveness
Farewells
Saying fare-well to a colleague
Going into retirement
Pensioning
Conveying condolences
Needing no printed words
Conveying congratulations
Using humorous texts to underpin a message
Announcing something publicily
Inviting someone to a function
Conveying one's thanks
Valentine's Day
Confirmation (full admission to a protestant church)
Communion (the act of partaking of the Eucharist)
Act of introduction to adult life (non-religious)
Full admission by a bishop to the Catholic Church
Easter
Whitsun
Mother's Day
Father's Day
Advent
St. Nicholas' Day
Christmas
New Year
Jewish New Year
GREETING CARD OCCASIONS
The Valentine Card's
The historical background
Mother's
Day
and Father's Day of Honour
Who invented the Christmas card?