The moodboard
A wedding moodboard you can plan from
Shared with your partner, edited down to a direction, with a palette, and sent to every supplier as one link.
Five hundred pins is not a vision. It is five hundred other people's weddings stacked on top of yours.
A moodboard is a decision, not a collection. UNSTAGED keeps yours small: a board per part of the day, shared between the two of you, with the images you actually mean and a palette pulled from them. The discipline is in the deleting, and the board is built to make that easy.
Then it does the thing Pinterest cannot. The boards, the palette and the details become the Wedding Deck: one designed link that the florist, the photographer and the venue all receive, so every supplier is briefed from the same direction rather than from a folder of screenshots.
One
Collect, then cut
Add what you like from anywhere. Then delete what is merely nice until what is left agrees with itself. Twenty images beat two hundred.
Two
Name the three words
Restraint, warmth, a particular kind of light. Three is a direction; four is a compromise. Every supplier gets the same three.
Three
Set the palette
The colours pulled from the board, held next to it, and carried through the rest of the plan.
Four
Send it as the deck
The moodboards, the palette and the details become the Wedding Deck, one link, the same for every supplier you brief.
Questions couples ask
- What is a wedding moodboard for?
- For deciding. A moodboard is not a collection of everything you like; it is the twenty images that agree with each other, and the three words they share. Suppliers are briefed from it, the dress is chosen against it, and every later decision is checked against it.
- Why not just use Pinterest?
- Pinterest is for collecting and it is very good at that. It is not for deciding: five hundred pins is five hundred other weddings, and a florist briefed from a board cannot tell which ten you meant. UNSTAGED moodboards are small, shared, and edited down; they carry a palette; and they turn into the deck you send to suppliers.
- Can my partner add to it?
- Yes. The moodboards belong to the wedding, not to one account, so both of you add, remove and rearrange from your own phones and see the same board.
- Can I have more than one?
- Yes. Most couples keep one for the ceremony, one for the reception, one for the wardrobe and one for flowers. Each has its own images and palette.
- How do I send it to a supplier?
- Through the Wedding Deck: a designed summary of the wedding built from your moodboards, palette and details, shared as one link. The florist, the photographer and the venue see the same direction without an account and without a folder of screenshots.
- Does it work on a laptop?
- Yes. The moodboards are quickest to build on a phone and most comfortable to edit on the web dashboard, and both open the same wedding.
On the method: Pinterest is not a plan and design your wedding like an art director.