This couple met at Costa Mesa’s Wayfarer and got engaged there. Now they own it

Justin and Courtney Suitor were ready when the Wayfarer was offered for sale last year.

And why wouldn’t they be? The Costa Mesa music venue had long meant so much to the couple, both personally and professionally. They’d often fantasized about buying it. But that wasn’t going to happen … right?

“Courtney and I had talked about it actually years before the opportunity presented itself,” says Justin Suitor, an Orange County musician who’d been playing at the venue with various bands...