Adding selected Birthdays from Address book to an iPhoto Calendar

I'm creating a Calendar in iPhoto, I have a large number of birthdays in my Address Book but I don't need all of them added to my Calendar Project (ie: Business contacts,etc). Is there a way to only add selected people, or a group to my project or do I have to import the birthdays and go in manually afterwards and erase the people I don't want?
Thanks.

AtzeP
I did find a solution! I found that it was working from my laptop, but just not from my desktop. So, on my desktop computer, in Address Book, I deleted the field "Birthday" from my template, then I re-added it and from then on, it worked. There must have been something corrupt in the that field in my template. To get to it in Address Book:
Hightlight a card, then click Card > Add Field > Edit Template
Scroll down to the Birthday field and click the minus sign next to it.
Then add the field back in:
Highlight a card, then click Card > Add Field > Birthday
That worked for me. There are two parts that I don't know about:
1) I don't THINK it will delete the Birthday field in cards that already have a birthday entered. I think it just deletes that field in the template and therefore in newly entered contacts that field would be missing, but I would make sure you have that data backed up in some way first.
2) I don't know if the birthdays that are already entered will suddenly appear in your calendar or if you'll have to go back and delete and then re-enter that info.
I hope it works for you! Let me know!

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