BowerWedding Venue WordPress Theme

Overview

Who it is for

Bower is for a wedding venue — a barn, a walled garden, a country house, anywhere that takes one wedding at a time and gets the same two questions in every enquiry.

How many does it hold

Almost every venue website answers with a single number, and that number is wrong for most of the people reading it, because a room holds completely different numbers depending on what you put in it. This computes it: each room carries its real dimensions, and the theme works out for every layout how many people fit.

The figures are whole-room planning figures rather than furniture footprints, and the difference is the thing venues get wrong. A 1.8 m round of ten occupies about 0.9 m² a head as furniture — but a banqueting room needs about 1.6 m² a head once the chairs, getting out of them and a route for the plates are counted. Quoting the furniture number tells a couple your barn seats twice what it seats.

Where a room has a licensed maximum, that wins even where the arithmetic says more would fit, and the page says so. A number on a website is not a capacity if the fire officer disagrees with it. There is no capacity field to type into: that is the point.

What the light will do on the day

The other question, and the one no venue site answers because the answer changes every week of the season. Bower computes it from the venue’s own coordinates: sunrise, the hour the light turns golden, sunset, when usable light is gone, how high the sun gets, and which way it faces at each. A visitor types their date and the page answers for that day.

The astronomy is Meeus’s solar position, checked two ways — against an independent implementation across six places and four dates worldwide, where it agrees to within a few minutes, and against physical invariants that no implementation can argue with: 66.56° solar noon at the equator on the solstice, equinox azimuths at 90° and 270°. It handles the days when the sun does not rise or set at all rather than special-casing them.

A sky that belongs to the date

The background is the sky above the venue at the hour a couple is imagining, computed from that same solar position with a single-scattering Rayleigh and Mie model. Ask about June and the page is the colour a June evening is; ask about December and it is not. It does not animate — it is a sky, not a screensaver.

The handover from sky to paper is measured from the real layout and completes inside the hero’s own padding, because there is no other place it can happen: fade later and the first screen of body text sits on half-lit sky, fade earlier and the hero’s own type lands on paper. Every piece of text on the theme was checked against the pixels actually painted behind it, on a summer sky and a winter one.

What is in the box

• Rooms with length, width, the proportion of floor already spoken for, and an optional licensed maximum.
• A capacity table per room, computed for four layouts, with the assumptions printed beside each figure.
• A light panel on the front page and on every room, answering for any date between 2000 and 2100.

No page builder, no ACF, no build step, no third-party JavaScript, and no photographs required — a room without a cover image gets a plain panel rather than a stock picture of somebody else’s barn.