Designed for South Asian weddings, not generic ones
The visual language of a South Asian wedding invite is its own genre — the gold borders, the Sanskrit or Urdu type, the Ganesh or hilal at the head, the bride and groom's names in two scripts, the order of the events on the inside spread. Generic invitation builders give you a "Save the Date" template and a flat colour palette. Baraat's designs are built for this aesthetic out of the box: maroon-and-gold formal designs for traditional Hindu weddings, deep-green-and-cream for Muslim weddings, jewel-toned designs for Sikh weddings, and contemporary minimal layouts for couples who want something quieter. Every template is fully editable — bring in your own photos, change colours, switch fonts — and prints beautifully if you want a physical version.
Email and WhatsApp, with one source of truth
Some of your guests will accept email. The aunties and uncles will need WhatsApp. Some elder relatives will only respond to a printed card with a return-by date. Baraat handles all three from a single guest list. Your digital invite goes out by email to the addresses you have on file. For households without email, you can send the same designed invite as a personalised WhatsApp message — one tap from inside the app, with the guest's RSVP link pre-filled. For physical cards, the invitation tool generates a print-ready PDF with the same design, and you can mail-merge addresses from your guest list. The RSVPs all flow back into the same inbox, regardless of how the invite went out.
Track opens, clicks, and responses in real time
When the invitations are out, the question becomes: who has actually seen them? Baraat tracks open rates per household, click-through to the RSVP page, and final response. You can see at any moment which families have opened the email, which have clicked through, which have RSVPd, and which haven't engaged at all. That last group is the one that matters — these are the families you need to follow up with personally, by WhatsApp or phone, three weeks before the wedding. The invitation tool surfaces them as a single list, ranked by VIP status and time-since-send.
Multi-language, multi-script
Many South Asian weddings need the invite in two languages: English for the British nieces and nephews, and Gujarati or Punjabi or Urdu for the older relatives. Baraat's invitation builder is bilingual-first. You can write the same invite in two languages side by side, or use a separate template for each side of the family. The fonts are typographer-quality (not the system fallbacks that most builders use), and the rendering looks correct in both PDF and email.
Save-the-dates, mehndi-night invites, reception-only invites
A South Asian wedding doesn't have one invitation — it has several. The save-the-date goes out 12 months ahead. The main wedding invitation goes out 8 to 10 weeks ahead. The Mehndi night might have its own designed invite for the women's side of the family. The reception-only guests get a different, lighter version. Baraat lets you design and send each as a separate invitation, to a different segment of your guest list, with its own RSVP page if you want one. Everything ties back to the same guest database, so you never lose track of which household received what.
What's inside
Built to handle the full job.
Designer templates
Hindu, Sikh, Muslim, Jain and contemporary designs — all customisable.
Email + WhatsApp + print
One invite, three delivery channels, one inbox of responses.
Open & click tracking
See who's seen the invite, who's clicked through, and who hasn't engaged.
Multi-language
Write side-by-side in English plus Hindi, Gujarati, Punjabi, or Urdu.
Segmented sending
Save-the-dates, Mehndi-only invites, reception-only invites — each to its own group.
Print-ready PDF export
High-quality PDF for printers, with your guest mail-merge.
In real weddings
How couples are using it.
Bilingual invites — English and Gujarati
The English side of the invitation is for cousins and friends; the Gujarati side is for grandparents and family elders. Baraat lets you design both at once with proper Devanagari typography, and either prints them on a single double-sided card or sends them as a single PDF.
Mehndi-only invites for the women's side of the family
The Mehndi night is intimate and women-only. You don't want to send it to your 320-person main list. Baraat lets you tag a sub-segment and design a Mehndi-specific invite that only goes to that group, with its own RSVP page and dress-code note.
Personalised WhatsApp invites for the auntie generation
Half your relatives will never open an email but will read every WhatsApp message they get. Baraat generates personalised WhatsApp deeplinks per household — your invite, their RSVP code, in a message you can send one tap at a time or in bulk through your phone's share sheet.
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