Wedding venue in St. Augustine abruptly closes, sends couples scrambling

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ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – At slightest a twelve couples are scrambling to find a caller spot for their wedding aft a St. Augustine wedding venue abruptly unopen down.

Rachael Dungan’s fiancé, Ken, popped the question backmost successful June. They’ve been looking guardant to their imagination wedding astatine Culinary Outfitters.

“It was each caller and breathtaking and amusive and everyone loves to program a bully party, right?” Dungan said.

The plans came to a screeching halt Wednesday day erstwhile the venue posted a connection connected Facebook saying that it was shutting its doors.

“I was conscionable like, that’s interesting,” Dungan said. “No 1 has reached out, nary 1 has said anything.”

Dungan enactment down a $2,700 deposit, and she doesn’t cognize if she’ll get that back.

She said she is not alone.

“I’m fortunate to person a small implicit a twelvemonth to compensate for plans. There’s a miss I reached retired to, her wedding is successful 2 weeks and what bash you bash astatine that point?” Dungan said. “Not lone does she person to re-plan, but she besides doesn’t person the finances to bash it.”

News4Jax went by the venue and spoke with the caller tenant, who said the older proprietor mislaid his lease and took off. News4Jax called him, but received a dependable connection that stated the voicemail container could not judge messages.

“This isn’t right. This isn’t OK,” Dungan said. “If you aren’t capable to clasp up your extremity of the bargain, you person to wage that back.”