Thank you very much for expressing your interest in the Dominican Republic. We are pleased to respond to your request of getting married information and we hope your wedding in the DR will be memorable and will give you both happiness and completely satisfaction.

In order to celebrate your wedding in the Dominican Republic the bridal and the groom will need the following documents:

1) Valid Passport*
2) Original Birth Certificate*
3) Single Status Affidavit and Divorce Act**. (original and notarized).
4) Two witnesses or more aged 18 years or over (hotel can provide them free if necessary). Foreign witnesses need to hold a valid passport.
5) Translation into Spanish of the Birth Certificate, Single Status Affidavit and Divorce Act. ( It may be done at the Embassy for a fee)
6) Legalization of the Single Status Affidavit and Divorce Act by the Consular Section of this Embassy.
7) If you are able to sign your Single Status Affidavit & Divorce Act in front of a Dominican Consular representative (at this Embassy or your nearby Dominican Consul), you do not need to notarize them with a Canadian notary. Please book for an appointment in advance by calling our First Secretary Mrs Jocelin Pujol, ext. 232.
* For legalization purposes at this Embassy, a photocopy of your passport and Birth Certificate will suffice. The latter does not need to have your parent's name on it. However, you must bring all your original documents to the Dominican Republic.

** Translated into Spanish and legalized by this Embassy.

Please find a Single Status Affidavit sample.

Legal Fees in USD:
The cost to translate a document is US $40 per document
The cost to legalize a document is US $100 per document

This means the following:
US $40x4 to translate both Birth Certificate and two single status affidavit = US $160
US $100x2 to legalize two single status affidavit = US $200.

On the other hand, if one of you is divorced, each divorced individual should pay an additional US $75 in order to legalize the Divorce Certificate and US $40 for its translation into Spanish. Therefore, an extra US $140 for each divorced candidate.
TOTAL: US $360 (if both of you are not divorced).

IMPORTANT NOTICE:
Please take into account that once your documents are legalized by this Embassy or a Dominican Consulate, they will be valid for three (3) consecutive months from the legalization date. A divorce bride cannot get married until 10 months have passed after her official divorce, unless her intended husband is the same person she has divorced. If this is your case, please keep in touch with us as there may be new legal changes on this matter.

It could take five (5) business days for the documents to be ready.

You should send your documents to:
Consular Section of the Dominican Republic Embassy
130 Albert St. suite 422
Ottawa, Ontario
K1P 5G4

You need to send us a pre-paid envelope to return back your documents. Payment must be done by certified cheque or money order in US funds.

Mrs. Jocelin Pujol jpujol@drembassy.org and Mrs. Maria Amalia Olavarrieta mleyba@drembassy.org both from our Consular Section, will be very pleased to coordinate and facilitate your wedding arrangements. For more detailed tourism information, you may contact Mr. Luis Kalaff lkalaff@drembassy.org responsible of our Economics and Tourism Section. Tel.: (613) 569-9893. Fax: (613) 569-8673

For more information, please visit our website www.drembassy.org or the website of the Ministry of Tourism www.dominicana.com.do Other interesting websites to visit are www.dr1.com, www.links-dominicanrepublic.com, www.dominicandatabase.com, www.dominicanrepublic.com, www.domrep.net, www.dominican-rep.com