Couples marrying in the Dominican Republic bring 38 guests on average. At a resort built for two thousand people, 38 guests disappear. At a very small property, 38 guests are the entire place. A medium resort is the only scale where that number feels like a group.
La Romana happens to be built almost entirely at that scale. Nearly every resort on this coast falls into the medium band, including the only five-star and all three adults-only properties, which makes it unusually well matched to the size of wedding most people are actually having.
What follows is a spread across that band, from three stars up to five. Our Certified Destination Wedding Specialists can tell you how many other weddings each resort takes in a weekend, which is the number that decides whether a medium property feels attentive or stretched on the day of your destination wedding.
Best Medium Destination Wedding Venues at Top La Romana Resorts
Nine of the thirteen resorts in La Romana are medium-sized, and these six show the range from three stars to five.
1. Casa De Campo Resort & Villas
Casa De Campo Resort & Villas is the only five-star on this coast and a medium property, offering villas as well as hotel rooms.
Medium plus villas is a genuinely different proposition. A wedding party can take houses rather than a corridor of rooms, which keeps families together and gives the week somewhere private to happen between events. It also supports five ceremony types, more than anywhere else here, so the format of your wedding isn’t constrained by the size of the resort.
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2. Dreams Dominicus La Romana Resort & Spa
Dreams Dominicus La Romana Resort & Spa is a medium 4.5-star family-friendly resort carrying five wedding venues, the most on this coast.
Five venues at medium size is a combination worth paying attention to. You get the attentive service of a smaller property with the venue choice of a much larger one, so a 38-guest wedding can still have a welcome event, a ceremony, and a reception in three genuinely different places without any of them feeling oversized.
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3. Secrets La Romana Resort & Spa
Secrets La Romana Resort & Spa is a medium 4.5-star adults-only property with a 200-guest beachfront venue.
Medium and adults-only together is where a block of twenty rooms genuinely registers with a resort, which is where upgrades and private dinners come from. A venue holding 200 at a property this size also means you’ll never outgrow the space; however, the guest list moves between the save-the-date and the final count.
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4. Catalonia Royal La Romana
Catalonia Royal La Romana is a medium 4.5-star adults-only resort sharing its site with a medium four-star family property.
Two medium resorts side by side behave like one larger one when you need them to. Your group can spread across both at two price points and two atmospheres, then come together for the wedding, which is the cleanest solution there is to a guest list containing both young families and couples who’d rather not hear them.
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5. Viva Dominicus Palace by Wyndham
Viva Dominicus Palace by Wyndham is a medium 3.5-star family-friendly resort with six venues and support for five ceremony types.
This is the most capable medium resort per dollar on the coast. Six venues and five ceremony formats at the lowest end of the market means a religious or interfaith wedding doesn’t have to pay for a higher tier to be possible, and medium size keeps the coordinators focused on fewer events each week.
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6. Dreams La Romana Resort & Spa
Dreams La Romana Resort & Spa is a medium 4.5-star family-friendly property, the second Dreams resort on this coast.
Having two resorts from the same brand in one area is more useful than it sounds, because it gives you a fallback if your dates are gone at the first. The service style, the package structure, and the planning process carry across, so comparing them is a question of location and availability rather than starting the research again.
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More Information for Planning Your Destination Wedding at a Medium-Sized La Romana Resort
Here’s what our Certified Destination Wedding Specialists point out about resort size.
Medium-Sized Resorts Appeal
The thing couples notice afterward is running into their own guests. At a medium resort, you walk to breakfast and see four people you invited, which turns a destination wedding into a week together rather than a ceremony everyone travelled to. At a very large property, your group scatters and you only see them at scheduled events.
Medium size also changes your bargaining position. A block of twenty rooms is a noticeable piece of business to a resort this size, and that’s where upgrades, private dinners, and venue concessions come from. At a two-thousand-room property, the same block is invisible.
The limit to check is venue capacity and parallel weddings. Some medium wedding resorts here cap their largest space around 100, and some run more than one wedding on a Saturday. Ask both questions directly, because the answers vary more within this band than the size label suggests.
La Romana Destination Wedding Cost
The average couple marrying in the Dominican Republic spends around $8,959 in total, with most landing between $7,000 and $11,000. That covers the wedding package, accommodations, airfare, and extras. Rooms average roughly $350 per person per night across a typical four-night stay, with airfare of $300 to $700 per person, and couples average 38 guests.
These averages reflect real spend data from couples who booked their destination wedding with our Certified Destination Wedding Specialists.
Medium resorts here span three stars to five, so size doesn’t dictate cost. What it does affect is what your room block is worth to the resort, and a well-negotiated block at this scale often returns more in concessions than the rate difference between two properties.
La Romana Destination Wedding Packages
Resorts in the Dominican Republic offer complimentary and deposit-only wedding packages with a qualifying room block, running roughly $800 to $3,000 at entry tier, $3,500 to $5,000 mid-tier, and $5,500 to $14,000 and beyond for full productions.
Packages at medium resorts tend to be written around 30 to 60 guests, which is exactly where most destination weddings land. That means paying for fewer inclusions you won’t use and fewer per-person surcharges for exceeding a low base count.
La Romana Destination Wedding Travel Information
La Romana International is 20 to 30 minutes from the Bayahibe resorts but serves few routes, so most guests fly into Punta Cana International and transfer roughly 90 minutes west.
A group of 38 fits comfortably into shared transfers rather than needing a coach, which is cheaper and far less tedious. If arrivals spread across a day, ask the resort to group them into two or three runs rather than leaving everyone to book separately.
La Romana Medium Resort Wedding FAQs
How many medium-sized wedding resorts are in La Romana?
Nine of the thirteen we work with on this coast, which makes medium by far the dominant size here. That group includes the area’s only five-star and all three of its adults-only properties.
What size resort is best for a destination wedding?
For a guest list between roughly 25 and 70, a medium resort usually works best. Your group is large enough to feel present and small enough for staff to recognize, and a block that size carries real weight in negotiations. Since couples here average 38 guests, La Romana’s resort mix fits unusually well.
Will my wedding be the only one at the resort that day?
Not necessarily, even at a medium property. Some resorts here run two weddings on a busy Saturday, in different venues at staggered times. Ask how many are booked for your date and whether exclusivity can be arranged, since at this size it often can.
Get Ready to Plan a Destination Wedding at a Medium-Sized La Romana Resort
Big enough to give everyone something to do, small enough that you keep bumping into the people you invited. On a coast where nine of thirteen resorts are this size, that’s the easy part.
Fill out our online wedding planning form, and one of our Certified Destination Wedding Specialists will match your guest count to the right property!
About the Author
Maggie Sabin
Maggie has always loved traveling and discovering new places and cultures. Before joining DestinationWeddings.com as SEO Manager in 2024, she spent nearly a decade teaching at international schools across Europe and Asia, from the UK and Spain to Taiwan. Today, she creates and manages all of the blog's content, making sure couples can easily find the answers and inspiration they need to plan their destination wedding with confidence. When she's not working, you'll find Maggie learning a new language, curled up with a good book, working out, or soaking up the sun at the beach. She's happiest at home snuggling with her dogs, Lola and Minnie.
