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Glad to hear the storm's not as bad as the news says on the East coast! Â Adding to the prices going up... my wedding is in January and all the price lists they send say 2010, and that the price for everything will be going up at least 10% in 2011. So I emailed Riu and said I need to know the prices before I give them a credit card number, and they sent me the 2010 one again. I then emailed them saying I still don't have a price for 2011 and need that before giving any money. She said maybe we will have the price in December. I find that really frustrating and it feels like I'm gonna get screwed by this policy. We haven't put any money down and have not booked yet, we just have a date confirmed. But would another resort be the same? I guess maybe this is what happens when you try to plan something in Mexico! Â

Staicy- I have been emailing with Ana, at [email protected]. She responds within a day but is NOT easy to communicate with over the phone if you don't speak Spanish. Â I am getting the same feeling about save the dates... we probably could have just skipped Save the Dates and done invites, I just didn't know if I would have a little more info later than I do right now. But I am including a card that says to contact the Travel agent if you want to book now. Maybe I won't need invites? Â I saw something on earlier posts about getting a big group discount using another website? If anyone has any information on that I would love to know! The RIU has been very difficult to talk to about group discounts so far, so I'm hoping my travel agent has some tricks up her sleeve.

Hello brides! I am so happy to see this forum... I am getting married at RIU RM January 28, 2011 and am definetly feeling stressed about many of the same things (some I have not even thought of yet!). We are still in the process of sending out save-the-dates and I'm stressed that by the time people book prices will be higher. Apparently January is the most expensive time to go to Mexico?!? Wish I had known. Maybe we will only have like 10 people. That's totally fine though. Â So I have a general destination wedding question... I know I was supposed to send save the dates like 8 months in advance, but we weren't engaged yet... when did you all send Invites? And did you ask for the RSVP earlier so you could plan better? I have heard its okay to ask ahead of time for DW but not sure how to go about it. Â Can't wait to hear more about your weddings! Â Stephanie