Background
House of Events London is an event styling studio in Chiswick, West London. The client came to us with an existing WordPress site built on a premium theme and Elementor — the typical set-up for a creative business, but slow in the browser and in constant need of plugin updates.
The goal: a fresh, elegant look with a wedding magazine feel that matched the premium nature of the event styling world, plus a full migration from WordPress to Astro — a light stack without the weight of a traditional CMS.
The solution
We designed the site from scratch in an aesthetic tailored to the industry and built it on static Astro 5 with the content held in Markdown.
What we delivered:
- A complete site structure — home page, service pages, blog, gallery, FAQ and a contact form
- The full 2026 SEO kit — schema.org, sitemap, canonical tags, Open Graph and 301 redirects from the old WordPress URLs
- Image optimisation (WebP) and Core Web Vitals
- Content editing in Markdown — no admin panel and no database
The result
- A static site on light hosting — no admin panel, no database and none of the attacks that typically target WordPress
- No monthly plugin updates — we update the framework itself once every 6–12 months
- Full control over SEO — schema, headings and redirects set up deliberately around the keyword plan
- The client edits blog content themselves in Markdown — about 10 minutes to learn instead of navigating the Elementor panel
- PageSpeed and Core Web Vitals figures will be added once traffic settles and the new URLs are indexed
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