How to maintain Spouses in Address Book (to get merged wedding days)

BirthdayScanner X recognizes anniversaries for couples.

If two person are a couple (Spouses or similar in the Address Book), and both have an anniversary on the same day with the same name, that anniversary is merged to one.

The resulting event in iCal reads like this: Frank + Simone König: Wedding Day


For this to work, you must maintain the relationship in the Address Book:

  1. Open Address Book
  2. Select the contact you want to add a spouse to and hit the Edit button
  3. In the menu, choose Card -> Add Field -> Related Names.
  4. In the drop-down-menu at the side of the new field, select Spouse.
  5. Enter the name of the spouse. Name it First Name(blank)Last Name, e.g. Susanne Zeisig.

Note: you only need to do this for one of both partners for BirthdayScanner X to recognize both partners as couple.

Note: you do not need to use the predefined Spouse label. You also can use Wife, Husband and similar. For Germans: Lebensgefährte, Lebenspartner etc. also works.


See also:

How to create a Wedding Day calendar

How to add anniversaries to the Address Book