Customs in the planner: how they are used

Customs are used only to suggest. They are saved with your planner after you tick a consent box, your collaborators can see them, and guests never do.

Pick your customs

At set-up for a wedding or engagement, under Customs you follow:

1. 1Start from the Suggested customs, guessed from your design and schedule, or type in Search customs ("Telugu", "Yoruba", "Catholic", "Jewish", "Korean"). Searching a country's people, a church or a region works too.
2. 2Pick one custom, or two for a celebration that brings two traditions together. You can follow two customs in one planner.
3. 3Tick the box "Use my customs to build this planner", or choose None — keep it simple for a plain plan.

If nothing matches, start from a basic plan with Use a basic plan and add your own functions and tasks.

What a custom changes

• Functions: the ones the custom usually has, each with its usual day and time, offered in the review with a switch. Only functions for every guest can go on the invitation's schedule; a family or helpers' function stays in the planner.
• Tasks for each function, with a reason behind "?".
• Vendors by their local names ("Purohit (priest)").
• The order of the day for each function's timeline.
• Date notes: a fast, a holy day or an inauspicious stretch near your date is flagged so you can ask the right person. A note never stops you choosing a date.
• A few questions that change the plan, such as which ceremony or who reads the service, asked at set-up and kept under Planner settings.

Two customs together

With two customs the planner makes a fusion plan. Shared kinds of function, such as a henna night or a reception, merge into one; ceremonies never do. You are asked how the two come together and, for a wedding, which ceremony makes it legal.

Confirm with your own people

Customs vary by family. Every suggested row says "Suggested · confirm with …" naming the person to ask, and every planner page ends with "Customs vary by family. Confirm with …" in the custom's own words. Switch off anything you do not follow.

Change them later

Open Planner settings → Your customs to change a custom or an answer. Run Set up again to apply the change to your rows; what you did or edited stays.