The official sources
we rely on.
Our legal guides, pricing pages and seasonal planning data are built on primary and institutional sources. Here they all are, with how we use each one and the last time we re-verified it.
Legal and administrative (Dominican Republic)
Everything you read in the legal cluster of our guides, and on any page that touches requirements, documents or paperwork, traces back to these primary sources.
Civil-marriage requirements, civil-registry offices, national ID cards, birth and marriage certificates.
The Hague Apostille and consular procedures for foreign nationals.
Struck down the 10-month waiting period before a divorced woman could remarry. Cited in our legal-requirements guide.
Tax considerations relevant to vendors and to couples marrying in the Dominican Republic.
Immigration status relevant to foreign couples getting married in the Dominican Republic.
Climate and storm risk
These underpin our best-time-of-year recommendations across the legal and beach guides, and the weather data behind our planning advice.
Monthly climate normals for the Samaná peninsula: rainfall, temperature, wind.
National hurricane-risk index by month, plus the historical record of tracks passing near the Dominican Republic.
Tourism and destination
Regional facts, seasonal events (whale season, patron-saint festivals) and general destination reference.
Official destination data and tourism permits.
Official reference material on the country's tourism offering.
Local reference on the Samaná peninsula — beaches, access, the whale-watching calendar.
Economic and pricing data
The price ranges in our pricing guides are built from two inputs: real quotes from directory vendors (refreshed quarterly) and the macro references below.
The reference USD/DOP exchange rate we use to convert figures in our pricing guides.
Price ranges by category and wedding size. They're refreshed quarterly and documented internally; each pricing page carries the date of its last update in the footer.
Is a source missing?
If you know of an official source relevant to weddings in the Dominican Republic (a ruling, a regulation, a climate dataset, etc.) that we should be citing and don't see here, get in touch. We'll add it.
This page complements our editorial policy (how we research and review) and our corrections policy (what we do when something is wrong).