Camille Rivera

Camille has spent eight years planning destination weddings on the Samaná peninsula for couples who fly in from abroad. Bilingual and bicultural, she's the person who actually walks the apostille paperwork through the Junta Central Electoral and knows, to the day, how long a legal civil ceremony takes versus a symbolic one on the sand. She works mostly with micro-weddings — 12 to 50 guests — and she's blunt about the trade-offs foreigners don't see coming: rain plans, transfer times from the airport, and which beautiful venue is a logistical headache. Her thesis: a wedding here should feel effortless to your guests and bulletproof on paper.