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Groups are named segments of your guest list. When you send an announcement, you select one or more groups as the recipients — Weddingkart delivers the message to every guest in those groups. Groups are internal to Weddingkart. They are not WhatsApp groups and do not appear anywhere in your guests’ WhatsApp app.

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What groups are used for

Groups let you target specific subsets of guests with relevant messages. Common examples:
  • Brideside / Groomside — for messages relevant to each family
  • VIPs — for priority communication
  • Family — for close family members across both sides
  • College Friends — for a specific social circle
  • Dubai Guests — for guests traveling from a specific city
  • Hotel Guests — for guests staying at the wedding hotel
  • Sangeet Guests — for guests invited to a specific ceremony
  • Test — for testing announcements before sending to everyone

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Creating a group manually

1

Navigate to Groups

Open the wedding in the app and go to Guests → Groups.
2

Tap Add Group

Tap the + button or Create Group.
3

Name the group

Enter a descriptive name (e.g., “Bride’s Family” or “Reception Only”).
4

Save and add guests

Tap Save. The group is created. You can add guests to it immediately or later from the guest list.

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Auto-created groups from Excel import

When you import an Excel file with Yes/No columns, Weddingkart creates a group for each column automatically. A guest with “Yes” in the “Brideside” column is added to the “Brideside” group on import. This means you can set up all your groups before you even open the app — just structure your Excel file the way you want your groups to look. See Excel Import for details on file formatting.

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Managing group membership

You can add or remove guests from groups at any time:
  • Add a guest to a group — open the guest’s profile and select the group, or open the group and add guests to it
  • Move a guest — moves the guest from one group to another (removes them from the original)
  • Copy a guest — adds the guest to a new group without removing them from the current one
  • Remove a guest from a group — removes the guest from the group only; the guest record is not deleted

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Other group operations

Rename — you can rename any group at any time without affecting its members or any past announcements. Merge — select two or more groups and merge them into one. All members from the original groups are combined into the new group, and the original groups are removed. Delete — deleting a group removes the group only. The guests in it are not deleted.

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Sending to multiple groups

When you send an announcement to more than one group, each guest receives the message only once — even if they belong to multiple groups. Weddingkart takes the union of all selected groups and deduplicates the recipients automatically.
There are no duplicate messages. A guest who belongs to both “Brideside” and “VIPs” receives the announcement once when you select both groups.

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Tips for managing groups

Create a “Test” group with 2-3 of your own phone numbers. Send every announcement to the Test group first to verify the message looks correct before sending to all guests.
Create event-specific groups for each ceremony — “Sangeet Guests”, “Haldi Guests”, “Baraat Guests” — so you can send ceremony-specific messages without manually filtering your list every time.
Keep the total number of groups under 10. More groups than that becomes difficult to manage and easy to mis-select when composing announcements.