Is there a way to stop my phone sending a text if it can't send an iMessage?

I'm starting to get very reluctant to send picture messages/videos etc to friends abroad because - although my phone shows a blue iMessage button when I create my message - when I go back to check if it's been sent successfully - it has reverted to a regular text/MMS message ...which - to a friend the other side of the world - is no doubt costing me loads. The whole point, I thought, was that we could stop using WhatsApp. I'd much rather it tell me that it can't deliver the message than make me pay 40p (or whatever) to send it.
Any ideas?

Eek - found it just before reading your message, but thanks. I'm an idiot.

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