Why a tradition-aware checklist matters
A Punjabi Sikh wedding configures very differently from a Gujarati Hindu one or a British-Pakistani Muslim one. The pre-wedding programme is different. The vendors are different. The order in which you need to book and confirm them is different. A generic wedding planning app — built for white Western weddings — leaves you to figure all of this out yourself, and many couples spend the first three months of their engagement just trying to understand what they're even supposed to be doing. Baraat's checklist removes that overhead. The moment you tell us your traditions and your wedding date, we generate an 18-month timeline that already includes Mehndi, Sangeet, Anand Karaj, Nikkah, Walima, Vivah, Reception — whichever events apply — with the right tasks attached at the right time.
How the timeline works
The checklist is structured by phase: 12+ months out, 9 months out, 6 months out, 3 months out, 1 month out, 1 week out, the wedding week itself, and post-wedding. Each phase is a coherent set of decisions that should be made together. At 12 months we're asking you to lock the venue, the photographer, and the caterer — the three vendors that book up earliest in the UK. At 6 months we're moving to outfits, mehndi artists, and invitations. At 1 month we're finalising the guest list, the seating plan, and the day-of timeline. By the time you reach the wedding week, the checklist has handed you a printable run sheet that you can give to your families and your vendors.
It adjusts to the wedding you're actually having
No two South Asian weddings look the same. A 200-guest registry-and-Nikkah weekend in Birmingham is a different planning load than a 600-guest, four-day, three-tradition celebration in London. When you set up your wedding on Baraat, you tell us roughly how many guests you're expecting, how many events you're running, which traditions are being honoured, and where the wedding is taking place. The checklist adjusts accordingly — pulling in a Choora ceremony task list for a Punjabi bride, a Walima venue task list for a Pakistani Muslim wedding, or a Pithi morning-of task list for a Gujarati Hindu wedding. Tasks that don't apply are simply not shown.
A shared timeline, not a personal to-do list
Indian weddings are family weddings. The mother of the bride is choosing the caterer. The groom's sister is making the mehndi-night playlist. An aunt is on the phone with the decorator about the mandap. A planning tool that imagines a single user — the bride, alone with her laptop — fundamentally misunderstands how this works. Baraat's checklist is built to be shared. You can invite your partner, both sets of parents, your siblings, and your wedding planner to the same workspace. Each task has owners and due dates. Comments go on the task. When something is done, it's marked done by whoever did it, and everyone else can see.
The hidden value: the things you would have forgotten
The biggest payoff of a tradition-aware checklist isn't the things it tells you to do — it's the things it stops you from forgetting. Have you arranged a separate halal kitchen station for the Walima? Has anyone confirmed the kaleere for the choora ceremony? Is the pandit booked for the Vivah and the Garba evening, or just the Vivah? Is the dhol player arriving an hour before the baraat or thirty minutes before? Did you remember to brief the photographer on the traditional moments — the milni, the bidaai, the saat phere — so they're not eating samosas during the most important shots of the day? These are the things that wreck weddings, and these are the things our checklist surfaces, week by week, until the wedding is done.
What's inside
Built to handle the full job.
Tradition-aware tasks
Hindu, Sikh, Muslim, Jain, Christian, civil, and multi-faith — pick any combination.
Auto-generated timeline
Backdates from your wedding date and adjusts for the events you're running.
Multi-event support
Handles Mehndi, Sangeet, Anand Karaj, Nikkah, Walima, Vivah, Reception, Bidaai and more.
Shared with family
Invite your partner, parents, siblings, and planner. Owners and due dates per task.
Vendor link-outs
Tasks like "Book photographer" link directly to relevant vendors in your city.
Print-ready
Export the wedding-week run sheet as a PDF for vendors and family.
In real weddings
How couples are using it.
A 600-guest, four-day Punjabi Sikh wedding
You're planning a wedding that runs Mehndi night, Sangeet, Choora, Anand Karaj, Bidaai, and Reception across four days in West London. The checklist generates 180+ tasks across 18 months, breaks them into clear monthly batches, and automatically schedules the choora-bangle order, the kaleere fitting, the dhol-player booking, and the langar coordination — none of which appear in a generic wedding planner.
An intimate Nikkah followed by a Walima a week later
You're having a 60-person Nikkah in a mosque in Manchester, followed by a 350-guest Walima at a banqueting hall the following Saturday. The checklist handles them as two distinct events with their own timelines, vendor briefs, and seating plans — but bound to the same wedding so you don't double-track guests, contacts, and budgets.
A multi-faith Hindu and Christian wedding
A Gujarati Hindu bride is marrying a Christian groom. The wedding has a Pithi morning, a Hindu Vivah, a Civil Registry signing, a Church Blessing, and an evening reception. Baraat's checklist understands multi-faith weddings — it pulls tasks from both traditions, doesn't double-up on shared tasks like venue booking, and surfaces the cross-faith conversations you'll need to have (with the pandit, with the priest, and with both families).
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