Congratulations and Welcome to the board!! I'm getting married in December also!! You'll definitely find this board to be filled with lots of invaluable information! When is your wedding date? Mine is December 8th. I know there's a 2012 wedding roll call on here somewhere but I haven't seen it a while but anywho...on to your questions. (1) Yes, I believe you do have the option for rectangular tables vs circle tables. (2) Not sure (3) Not sure (4) The good thing about the pool deck is it has sufficient lighting from the lights on the trees to the light from the pool. I think you will have more than enough lighting using the additional paper lanterns. (5) I've heard Anel's name quite often, but I would have to agree with Savs, I've seen some amazing pictures from slideshows and in my opinion all the photographers from Adventure seem to be quite talented. (6) There is a Costco in Cancun, Wal-Mart and Sam's club are in Playa del Carmen.