This country is a great place to get married

[Dolores]

The Dominican Republic is a world leader in the business of wedding tourism. Statistics presented at the recent International Association of Destination Wedding Professionals indicate the country is number one in destination weddings in the insular Caribbean and Central American region and number four worldwide.

And wedding tourism is not, according to Tourism Minister David Collado, a small business by any means. According to the minister, this is a US$90 billion-dollar industry.

The Dominican Republic hosted the International Association of Destination Wedding Professionals 2025 Destination Wedding Congress from 26 to 29 May 2025. The world wedding tourism congress was attended by over 400 professionals tied to the industry.

The president of the International Association of Destination Wedding Professionals, Kitzia Morales, noted that the Dominican...

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[RDKNIGHT]

Honestly, I think these people must be on something. They’re bragging about being leaders in wedding tourism, but have they looked around Punta Cana lately? The infrastructure is crumbling by the second. Potholes everywhere — it looks like a war zone. They spend nothing on fixing it, while pulling in hundreds of millions of dollars.


The traffic lights? Still not working. Great setting for a “dream wedding,” right? Stop at a red light and suddenly you’ve got kids swarming your car trying to clean your windshield. Hit a pothole, snap your axle. Beautiful.


Why not invest in the part of the country that actually feeds everyone? The other day I saw them fix three potholes — seven days later, the crap was already coming up. We’re better than this, Punta Cana. Stop taking the money and lining your pockets. Enough is enough.

 

[CristoRey]

Stop taking the money and lining your pockets. Enough is enough.

Better chance of seeing hell freeze over twice.

 

[Manuel01]

Honestly, I think these people must be on something. They’re bragging about being leaders in wedding tourism, but have they looked around Punta Cana lately? The infrastructure is crumbling by the second. Potholes everywhere — it looks like a war zone. They spend nothing on fixing it, while pulling in hundreds of millions of dollars.


The traffic lights? Still not working. Great setting for a “dream wedding,” right? Stop at a red light and suddenly you’ve got kids swarming your car trying to clean your windshield. Hit a pothole, snap your axle. Beautiful.


Why not invest in the part of the country that actually feeds everyone? The other day I saw them fix three potholes — seven days later, the crap was already coming up. We’re better than this, Punta Cana. Stop taking the money and lining your pockets. Enough is enough.

Doesn't matter ! 99% of all Tourists never leave the Resorts anyway. If they could build an Airport inside the Hotels, believe me they would do it.

 

[RDKNIGHT]

Doesn't matter ! 99% of all Tourists never leave the Resorts anyway. If they could build an Airport inside the Hotels, believe me they would do it.

I’ve got news for you — even the resorts are turning into a pile of shit now. Outside the gates? It’s already a mess: flooded roads, potholes everywhere, and lowlifes crawling the streets. But now the resorts are slipping too. Bad service, poor maintenance, cutting corners left and right.

They’re squeezing every dollar they can while everything falls apart. This whole place is going downhill fast — and everyone’s pretending it’s still paradise.

But you know what? Let’s add another 100,000 housing rentals — flood the area with more people — and still not put a single damn dime into the infrastructure. Roads falling apart, trash everywhere, no drainage, no planning. But hey, let’s keep building like it’s sustainable.

This place is bursting at the seams and nobody in charge seems to care — as long as the money keeps rolling in.

 

[JD Jones]

Doesn't matter ! 99% of all Tourists never leave the Resorts anyway. If they could build an Airport inside the Hotels, believe me they would do it.

Hey, remember when the owner of the Hotel Santo Domingo used to land their helicopter on the hotel grounds next to the Malecon?

 

[keepcoming]

Hey, remember when the owner of the Hotel Santo Domingo used to land their helicopter on the hotel grounds next to the Malecon?

Sure do

 

[El Hijo de Manolo]

I’ve got news for you — even the resorts are turning into a pile of shit now. Outside the gates? It’s already a mess: flooded roads, potholes everywhere, and lowlifes crawling the streets. But now the resorts are slipping too. Bad service, poor maintenance, cutting corners left and right.

They’re squeezing every dollar they can while everything falls apart. This whole place is going downhill fast — and everyone’s pretending it’s still paradise.

But you know what? Let’s add another 100,000 housing rentals — flood the area with more people — and still not put a single damn dime into the infrastructure. Roads falling apart, trash everywhere, no drainage, no planning. But hey, let’s keep building like it’s sustainable.

This place is bursting at the seams and nobody in charge seems to care — as long as the money keeps rolling in.

Don't forget the convenient drowning deaths that in no way are murder

 

[Fulano2]

Doesn't matter ! 99% of all Tourists never leave the Resorts anyway. If they could build an Airport inside the Hotels, believe me they would do it.

Straight from the control to the pool and buffet..great

 

[SKY]

Yeah it is a disaster in Punta Cana. Only at 80% Occupancy in the off season................

 

[Fulano2]

I’ve got news for you — even the resorts are turning into a pile of shit now. Outside the gates? It’s already a mess: flooded roads, potholes everywhere, and lowlifes crawling the streets. But now the resorts are slipping too. Bad service, poor maintenance, cutting corners left and right.

They’re squeezing every dollar they can while everything falls apart. This whole place is going downhill fast — and everyone’s pretending it’s still paradise.

But you know what? Let’s add another 100,000 housing rentals — flood the area with more people — and still not put a single damn dime into the infrastructure. Roads falling apart, trash everywhere, no drainage, no planning. But hey, let’s keep building like it’s sustainable.

This place is bursting at the seams and nobody in charge seems to care — as long as the money keeps rolling in.

“They’re squeezing every dollar they can while everything falls apart. This whole place is going downhill fast — and everyone’s pretending it’s still paradise.”

I don’t know if that is how you state, but that is what happened for example in Playa Dorada and other places on the N.C.

 

[RDKNIGHT]

Yeah it is a disaster in Punta Cana. Only at 80% Occupancy in the off season................

Yeah, even if occupancy is 90% in the offseason, it doesn’t change the reality outside the resorts. The infrastructure is a complete mess. In ten years, it’s actually gotten worse in many ways—roads are falling apart, no functioning traffic lights, and still zero investment in the communities that actually live here. They keep pumping tourists in, but it's obvious the government or whoever's in charge doesn’t care at all about the residents.

 

[RDKNIGHT]

Don't forget the convenient drowning deaths that in no way are murder

Let’s not open that can of worms again, because then it might actually surpass the overstayed topic—still the reigning champ of useless comments.

 

[windeguy]

So are we saying it is not good to get married in Punta Cana because that entire region is overbuilt and starting to suck wind?

 

[Father Guido]

This country is also a great place not to get married

 

[Father Guido]

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[El Hijo de Manolo]

Let’s not open that can of worms again, because then it might actually surpass the overstayed topic—still the reigning champ of useless comments.

🖕🏼, Sir.

 

[Notengo]

This country is also a great place not to get married

Isn’t every country a great place if you don’t have to get married?

 

[slowmo]

I always tell my friends that if they really want to get married, it would be easy to find a husband/wife within a week or so in the DR.

 

[Peterj]

Honestly, I think these people must be on something. They’re bragging about being leaders in wedding tourism, but have they looked around Punta Cana lately? The infrastructure is crumbling by the second. Potholes everywhere — it looks like a war zone. They spend nothing on fixing it, while pulling in hundreds of millions of dollars.


The traffic lights? Still not working. Great setting for a “dream wedding,” right? Stop at a red light and suddenly you’ve got kids swarming your car trying to clean your windshield. Hit a pothole, snap your axle. Beautiful.


Why not invest in the part of the country that actually feeds everyone? The other day I saw them fix three potholes — seven days later, the crap was already coming up. We’re better than this, Punta Cana. Stop taking the money and lining your pockets. Enough is enough.

At least we have a brand NEW chinese store (NEW ISLAND) next on the left from Iberia....that's some progress....