Sangeet — the night before an Indian wedding becomes the loudest album of the week

An Indian wedding is rarely one event. The mehendi, the sangeet, the haldi, the baraat, the actual pheras, the reception — each is a self-contained party with its own attire, its own food, and its own camera roll. Of all of them, the sangeet is consistently the loudest, the most photographed, and the most likely to have its photos lost.

The night before

Sangeet means "sung together." Originally a women-only pre-wedding ritual where the bride's family sang folk songs to bless the union, it's now a full-blown choreographed dance party where both families perform routines they've rehearsed for weeks. Cousins, siblings, parents, even grandparents — everyone has a number.

Every dance, every drop, every laugh from the front row is being filmed by twelve people simultaneously. A wedding photographer is hired for the ceremony day, but the sangeet is usually covered by guests with phones. Those phones will then be reset, lost, water-damaged, or simply forgotten — and the moments are gone with them.

The math of an Indian wedding camera roll

A 300-guest Indian wedding spans 3-4 events over 2-3 days. If even half the guests take 50 photos each, that's 7,500 photos that exist nowhere except on individual phones. The bride and groom see maybe 200 of them. Galeira's job is to capture the other 7,300.

Why a QR per event

One QR code for the mehendi, one for the sangeet, one for the ceremony, one for the reception — each scoped to its own gallery so the family can later browse "all the dance videos" or "everything from the pheras" without scrolling through every meal.