Ladies, In our case or shall I say the case of Moon Palace, Cancun you can only book your wedding date 1 year in advance. Therefore, when we got engaged an once we narrowed down the resort & month (we were flexible on days within the month), we started telling family and friends that we were having a destination wedding. When we travel we work with FI's TA whom he has worked with for years so we informally sat down with her and gathered all that we needed to begin telling people if they asked questions. I started building our website www.TheFutureWrights.com Password: NXNW309 (feel free to browse) so that once our STDs went out (created by Sarah from Sprouille Designs) they could immediately go the website for information. This worked well for us! So although our STD's were sent 1 year in advance (after a contrat was received from MP), people knew ahead of time. Best of luck to you.