By Sydney Ferguson

    WICHITA, Kansas (KAKE) -- The TempleLive event venue in Wichita closed its doors recently, leaving the various weddings, concerts, shows and other events expected to take place there scrambling to figure out what's next.

A couple originally from Wichita is one of many impacted by the closure. When Randy Nguyen and Makayla Williams started planning their wedding, they knew they wanted to get married here in their home town, even after moving across the country to North Carolina.

Together they decided TempleLive, housed in Downtown Wichita's Scottish Rite Center, was the perfect place.

"It has like a historic feel to it. It's got a nice stained [glass] window that's really nice -- a grand, like, stairs that we were planning to get married on," said Nguyen.

The two had decided on a Victorian-style wedding that relied heavily on the building's architecture. The plan was to enhance the interior with greenery and white flowers, and ultimately say "I do" in front of hundreds of friends and family.

The venue is big enough that Nguyen and Williams expected to have the wedding and reception all in the same place.

"That's kind of what I envisioned, was just the entire day being in this venue, and now we don't have that," said Williams.

The soon-to-be newly weds learned just a month before their wedding that TempleLive is going out of business. This news and plans to attend a friend's wedding brought them back to town this weekend to search for another venue.

"I reached out to the coordinator here that we had been working with, and even she had just found that out as well," said Williams.

"Even though she's out of a job now, she still went above and beyond and tried to help us out," said Nguyen. "As far as like the owners, no word from him."

Williams learned of the closure from a vendor who read it in the Wichita Business Journal. In the article, Lance Beaty, Founder and CEO of Beaty Capital Group which owns the TempleLive brand, cites financial issues for the closure.

Nguyen and Williams say there's been no response from Beaty, despite booking the venue over a year and a half ago in February of 2024.

The two have been forced to start over just a month before their October 11th wedding date.

"October is the busiest wedding month, and Wichita is completely booked up, and we also have over 300 guests, so that also makes it really hard," said Williams.

Despite the setbacks, the couple says they're just hoping to get their $2000 deposit back and avoid postponing the wedding.

"We kind of, like, know now that we're not going to get the wedding that we had in mind this whole time, but yeah, we're just trying to make the best of it," said Nguyen.

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