Hi Jamie, I am getting married at RIU Palace Mexico in Oct 2011 - soo excited - congratulations on your engagement! It took approx. 2 weeks for the hotel to confirm the wedding date etc but we had booked the whole wedding party under one booking through Thomson's - who are you booking through? My Fi and I stayed at the RIU Caribe 2003 - it was lovely xx I have been looking at photographers etc and there is some beautiful pictures - I was quoted by Elizabeth Medina and Bluelens Caribe - the first was way out our price range but the second was only about $2000 which is quite good - I have also been quoted $200 per vendor to bring anyone in to the hotel for the wedding so that is working out at $400 just to bring in the 2 photographer's! Not sure yet what we are going to do There is a thread going at the moment which is under UK brides - you will get loads of info & ideas on there Happy planning xx