100 Short Thanksgiving Captions for Family, Friends and a Joyful Holiday

It’s Thanksgiving (or it’s here soon, depending on what day it is when you’re reading this).

Now, if you’re looking for Thanksgiving captions to share on social media like Instagram or simply to send as a text to a friend, partner or family then I hope this can help.

I’ve put together 100 of the best, wittiest and most love-filled short Thanksgiving captions for a happy holiday.

Use them by simply copying and pasting or use one or a couple of them as inspiration for your own special message.

I hope you’ll find something here to make this holiday even more joyful and fun.

Short Thanksgiving Captions for Family

Thanksgiving: a time to count blessings, not calories

You’re totally my favorite family

Grateful hearts gather here

Feast mode: activated

Thankful, blessed, and pumpkin-obsessed

I yam what I yam

Sweater weather and turkey together

Gobble ’til you wobble

Very grateful for elastic waistbands today

Pies before guys, always and forever

I’m just too blessed to be stressed

Stuffed with love (and turkey… and stuffings)

Family, turkey, and football – what more could you want in life?

Pie love you guys so much

This is my eating shirt, it has carried me through many feasts

Thankful for the little things

Autumn leaves and pumpkins please

Carving out extra time for family fun

Here’s to family, friends and deep and all-consuming food coma

Leftovers are for quitters

Eat, drink and start the season of merry with some lovely cranberry

Keep calm and gobble on

Feast your eyes on this delicious spread

Gratitude turns what we have into enough

Gather here with gratitude, love and patience for your family’s eccentricities

Happy Thanksgiving Captions for Couples

Grateful for you, my better and funnier half

Thanksgiving is always sweeter with you by my side

I feel blessed to have you as my plus one at the family table this year

You’re the gravy to my mashed potatoes.

Grateful for our perfectly imperfect love story because it’s ours

Thank you for your love today and but more importantly all the other days of the year

Feasting on love and turkey and lots of gravy with my favorite human in the world

Let’s give ’em pumpkin to talk about, honey

Autumn snuggles and Thanksgiving cuddles with you is so cozy, I can’t get enough

Thankful for the one who puts up with my crazy and weird family

You’re my favorite reason to give thanks this year and for many to come

Thankful for you, my love, always and forever

We make a great couple, let’s stick together like turkey and gravy

Thankful for our love story, let’s make it even better now

You’re the lovely pie of my eye

Thankful for love, laughter and huge leftover turkey sandwiches

We go deliciously together like turkey and stuffing

A bit of pumpkin spice and everything tastes nice.

Falling in love with you all over again this beautiful autumn

Thankful for the memories we’ve made and for all the ones to come this holiday season

You’re my favorite turkey to gobble a Thanksgiving platter to two with

I’ve carved out a big and special place in my heart for you

Serving up love and gratitude with my favorite person on this Earth

Grateful for the tasty feast, blessed by your sweet love

Pumpkin kisses and harvest wishes for us, my dear

You’re the apple of my pie.

Grateful for all those little, beautiful moments so far this year

The leaves are falling and I’m falling deeper in love.

I cannot lie, our love is sweeter than pumpkin pie

So blessed to have you by my side this holiday

I’m so grateful for our love story, with all its ups and downs and crazy twists

Happy Thanksgiving Captions for Friends and Instagram

Friendsgiving: Where friends become the heart of family

Thank you for all the laughter this year, let’s double it… no wait triple if for the next one

Grateful for friends who feel like home no matter what year it is

Squad goals: Eat, drink and be thankful for all the fun and good times

Friends who feast together, stay together

Thankful for friends who always bring the fun and positivity

Here to food, lots a laughter and friendship forever and ever

Grateful for those special friends who make life delicious

So thankful for all of you, everyday of the year

Today, I think we’re all thankful for the invention of elastic waistbands

Blessed with friends who fill my cup (and overflowing plate)

Thankful for my chosen family this year and many more to come

Good food, good friends, good times.

Friendsgiving: The one where we eat all the pie

Giving thanks for friendship and full plates. We are so blessed.

I’ve always said, friends are the savory gravy of life

Gobble ’til you wobble with your besties

Thankful for the friends who make today and every day feel like a feast

Friendsgiving: Come for the food, stay for the laughter far into the night

Grateful for friends who think twice and always save a bit of extra room for dessert

Thankful for friends who are down for seconds (and thirds too)

Serving up gratitude with a side of shenanigans this holiday

Short Happy Thanksgiving Captions for Parents

Thankful for giving me the roots that ground me and the wings to fly

Home is where the smell and taste of Mom’s cooking is

Grateful for the hands that raised me and the hearts that love me

Parents: The fountain of love and wisdom (and my special kind of crazy too)

Blessed to call you Mom and Dad, today and every day

Stuffed with gratitude for my amazing and slightly odd parents

A hearty family meal and heartfelt thanks, let’s do this again next year!

Home for the holidays with a heart full of gratitude for the two of you

Cherishing the family traditions my parents built, appreciating them more each year that goes by

Thankful for the love that seasons every dish at our family table.

Thank you for always being there for me, even when I don’t think I need help

Parents: The secret ingredient in life’s ups and downs

Gratitude is the stuffing in our family’s Thanksgiving

Grateful for parents who always make room for us (and for seconds)

Thankful for the family tree that gave me the strongest roots

Mom and Dad: The real MVPs of Thanksgiving

Grateful for parents who taught me the recipe for a happy life

Blessed with parents who make every day a day of love

I’m sitting here counting my blessings, starting with the two who gave me life

Blessed to have inherited your attitude of daily gratitude

Giving thanks for the two who’ve been carving out love and thankfulness in life since day one

Want more fun and uplifting inspiration for the season? Have a look at these uplifting November qoutes, the timeless thanksgiving quotes in this post and these two collections of fall quotes and positive autumn quotes.

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