A mood board per event
A South Asian wedding doesn't need one mood board — it needs five. The Mehndi night is whimsical, floral, marigolds and fairy lights. The Sangeet is glittery, club-like, drama and lighting. The Vivah is traditional, mandap-centric, gold and red. The Reception is formal, Vienna-meets-Bombay, classical glamour. Trying to communicate five different aesthetics through one Pinterest board guarantees that everything ends up looking the same. Baraat lets you create a separate mood board per event, with its own colour palette, its own image set, and its own notes — so when you brief your decorator on the Mehndi vs the Reception, you're showing them two genuinely different visions.
Drop in images from anywhere
Save Instagram posts directly. Drag images from your camera roll. Paste from Pinterest. Upload from your laptop. Add by URL from any wedding magazine or vendor website. Mood boards in Baraat aren't walled gardens — they're a place for everything you've already collected to live in one place. Each image has its own caption field for "what I like about this", which becomes invaluable when you're sitting with a decorator who can't guess that you like the marigold strands but not the overhead lighting in the same photo.
Comments, not chaos
Mood boards are conversations, not solo projects. Your partner has opinions. Your mother has stronger opinions. Your decorator has counter-opinions. Baraat threads comments directly onto each image, so the discussion lives where the design lives — not in a separate WhatsApp thread that nobody can find again. You can mention your partner, ask "is this too much?", and get an answer right there. Decorators can drop notes like "we can do this but the orchids will need to come from the Netherlands — adds £400". The board becomes a working document, not a Pinterest dump.
Share with vendors as a clean brief
When the board is ready, share it with your vendor as a read-only link or export it as a designed PDF brief. No more sending fifteen separate JPGs over email. Your decorator opens one link, sees the colour palette, the inspiration images with captions, the must-haves and the nice-to-haves, and your event-specific notes — all in one place. This single feature has been described by our decorator partners as "the difference between a clear brief and a guessing game". Vendors who work with Baraat couples consistently report shorter quoting cycles and fewer revisions.
Linked to budget, linked to vendors
A mood board on Baraat isn't isolated — it links into the rest of your planning. When you tag a piece of inspiration as "this is the look we want for the mandap", that tag becomes searchable from the budget and the vendor brief. When you find a decorator whose work matches your board, you can attach the board directly to your inquiry. The brief flows. The vision flows. The cost flows. Nothing has to be re-explained at every stage.
What's inside
Built to handle the full job.
One board per event
Mehndi, Sangeet, Vivah, Reception — separate moods, separate boards.
Drop in from anywhere
Instagram, Pinterest, camera roll, URL, file upload — all supported.
Threaded comments
Discuss images in-line with partner, family, and vendors.
Read-only sharing
Give vendors view access without exposing the rest of your wedding.
PDF brief export
Designed brief with palette, images, captions — ready to email vendors.
Linked to inquiries
Attach a board to a vendor inquiry — they get the vision without a long email.
In real weddings
How couples are using it.
A "marigold and brass" Mehndi night brief
Twenty inspiration images, a colour palette of marigold orange, deep maroon, and brushed brass, with captions like "I love the canopy but not the seating" and "We want this swing without the floor-length flowers". Sent to your decorator as a single PDF. Quotes come back tighter and on-brief.
Comparing decorator styles before you choose
You're shortlisting three decorators. You build a "must-have looks" board. Each decorator can view it before quoting. The two who can't hit the brief drop out cleanly. You don't waste three hours of meetings to discover this in person.
A multi-tradition wedding with two visual languages
The first half of the day is a traditional Hindu Vivah; the evening is a contemporary Western reception. Two boards, two distinct aesthetics, both shared with the same decorator who needs to deliver across both styles in the same venue.
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