Using highlighting to mark items
Learn how to use color highlights to visually mark and organize guests, tasks, budget items, and more across your wedding dashboard.
Highlighting lets you color-code items throughout your wedding planner. Mark important guests, flag tasks, or tag budget items with one of four colors to keep things organized at a glance.
How highlighting works
You can apply one of four highlight colors to items:
Yellow
Pink
Orange
Green
Highlights are purely visual. They don't change how anything works. Use them however makes sense to you. Some couples use colors to track categories, priorities, or any grouping that helps their planning.
What you can highlight
Highlighting is available across these areas of your wedding planner:
Guests - Mark VIPs, guests who need special attention, or any grouping you want
Households - Highlight entire households at once
Groups - Mark specific guest groups
Tasks - Flag high-priority or time-sensitive tasks (Pro plan)
Budget items - Tag budget categories that need attention (Pro plan)
Payments - Mark payments that need follow-up (Pro plan)
Timeline cues - Highlight key moments in your wedding day timeline (Pro plan)
Contacts - Mark important vendor contacts (Pro plan)
How to highlight an item
Find the item in its respective list (guest list, task list, etc.)
Click on the item to open its details
Look for the highlight option
Select a color to apply it
To remove a highlight, select the plain (no color) option.
Filtering by highlighted items
One of the most useful things about highlighting is being able to filter for highlighted items later.
In the guest list:
- A Highlighted tab appears at the top of your guest list (only shows if any guests are highlighted)
- Click it to see all highlighted guests at once
In the household list:
- A Highlighted tab appears when any households are highlighted
This makes it easy to quickly find everything you've marked, even in a large guest list.
Ideas for using highlights
Color-code by priority:
- Yellow = needs attention soon
- Pink = VIP / special handling
- Orange = waiting on something
- Green = all good / confirmed
Color-code by category:
- Yellow = bride's side helpers
- Pink = groom's side helpers
- Orange = bridal party
- Green = vendors to follow up with
Track meal or seating progress:
- Green = meal choice confirmed
- Orange = still waiting
- Pink = dietary restriction to accommodate
There's no right or wrong way to use highlighting. Pick a system that makes sense for your wedding and stick with it.
Tips
Be consistent. Pick a color scheme and use it the same way everywhere. If yellow means "needs attention" for guests, use it the same way for tasks.
Don't over-highlight. If everything is highlighted, nothing stands out. Use highlights selectively for the things that actually need visual attention.
Combine with filters. Highlighting works great alongside other filters. Highlight your VIP guests, then filter to see just them when you're planning seating or special touches.
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