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Hi all, I found this the other day. Creating the first bag is a little time consuming, but once you make the first template it goes much faster. I wouldn't recommend it if you've many bags to make, but thankfully I don't!! Hopefully someone else here can use the info as well. Anyhow here is the website with really great pics and instructions: Bubbly Scrumptious: Nov 09 kit - Make a Gift Bag - by Kathy I have a lot of expired aviation maps laying around the house that I wanted to use, so I measured one out according to the website and made a really cool bag out of it. I also had leftover rafia that I made the handles out of...sorry i don't have a pic right now! This doesn't make a huge bag, but I think it would be easy to increase the size if you like. I am using these as my oh sh*t kits, and plan to put stuff in like motrin, tylenol, multi-vitamin packets, shout wipes, tic tacs, bandaids, drink mix packets, cracker packets, and a piece of chocolate. Take care all! Lisa

Oops..just realized somehow that I accidentally had removed Bob Lyon's steel drum "Pachebel Reggae Canon" from the list above. It's back on...I love that one!! I also just added 4 Minutes by Madonna feat. Justin Timberlake & Timbaland.

Here's ours, it's 4 hours exactly. We are doing things a little differently though, our wedding will be super casual. Just doing a short (very short per FI request ceremony on the beach at sunset, followed by some cake & deserts and partying/boozing it up at the pool. We have around 25 people who will be there, so we are just going to take everyone out to dinner earlier, therefore we really won't have a true "dinner hour" with music required. Anyhow the list below is the order it will be played in, we made the first hour a mix of relaxing beach/steel drum type music, then followed it up with mostly all dance-types of songs. We are really going for more of a pool party kind of vibe, super casual and upbeat. No father/daughter dance/ first dance etc. I also took out all of the silent spaces between the songs to make them flow together better. We just want to be able to turn the ipod on and let it roll!! Although we are definitely bringing 2 with the same list on them just in case one breaks. Hope some of this helps everyone, this forum has been soooo helpful to me in putting together our list!! Thanks to everyone!! ************************************************** ** Buffalo SoldiersBob Marley Summer WindFrank Sinatra Changes In Latitudes, Changes In AttitudesJimmy Buffet Day'OThe Carnival Steel Drum Band Stir it upBob Marley Island CurrentsKent Arnsbarger: Steel Drum artist Don't Worry, Be HappyBobby McFerrin Boat DrinksThe Carnival Steel Drum Band Caribbean Steel Drum CalypsoCaribbean Party Music: Jamaican, Calypso, Steel Drums and other FinsJimmy Buffett Jump In the Line (SHAKE, SHAKE, SENORA)Kent Arnsbarger: Steel Drum artist JamminBob Marley VolcanoThe Carnival Steel Drum Band Island JammersCaribbean Sound Jamaica FarewellTrinidad Steel Drum Band Make Mine a Pina ColadaGene Mitchell Brown Skin GirlSweet Steel Under the SeaSweet Steel Oh, I love you soPreston Smith Wild ThingTone Loc Everybody Needs Somebody to LoveThe Blues Brothers My Life Would Suck Without YouKelly Clarkson Keeps gettin' betterChristina Aguilera BeautifulAkon Hips Dont LieShakira Right RoundFlo-Rida/Will.I.Am If You Seek AmyBritney Spears Fire Burning On The DancefloorSean Kingston LowFlorida Ft. Pain Just danceLady Gaga feat. Colby O'Donis Dude (The Remix)Beenie Man, Ms. Thing & Shawanna Mr. BoombasticShaggy Im Too Sexy for My ShirtRight Said Fred Humpty DanceHumpty Hump Love ShackThe B-52's Pon De ReplayRihanna Evacuate The Dancefloor (Radio Edit)Cascada One, Two, ThreeBritney Spears Shake ItMetro Station I Kissed A GirlKaty Perry And We DancedHooters Jump In The LineHarry Belafonte If you want to be happyJimmy Soul AngelShaggy You shook me all night longAC/DC Love in an ElevatorAerosmith I Wanna Be SedatedThe Ramones An American GirlTom Petty & the Heartbreakers You're Gonna Go Far, KidThe Offspring SanteriaSublime Rock LobsterThe B 52`s CenterfoldJ. Geils Band I Love Rock and RollJoan Jett Pour Some Sugar On MeDef Leppard Glory DaysBruce Springsteen Summer of 69Bryan Adams VacationThe Go-Go's Dancing With MyselfBilly Idol Come On EileenDexy's Midnight Runners Sweet CarolineNeil Diamond Going to the Chapel of LoveShirelles Your The First The Last My EverythingBarry White Love Of A LifetimeFireHouse Wonderful WorldIsrael Kamakawiwo'ole

Not sure if this will help you or anyone else, but I just discovered that in i-tunes if you right click a song, then click on "get info", then click "options", you can alter the start and stop time of a song (i.e. get rid of that really long blank space on either side that some songs have). It transfers onto the ipod and really makes the play-list flow together much better I have found. You can also adjust the volume of each song on here too if you need to...itunes is supposed to automatically adjust them all if you have it set up to do that, but I've noticed it doesn't always work for me. Anyhow if there is a good place in your song that you could just end it, this may possibly work for you. Sorry so late on responding to this, been working on a play-list for months and just stumbled onto this part of i-tunes!!

Just wanted to give you an update in case anyone is thinking of ordering from here: Hawaiian Wedding Shop: Beach Wedding Dresses, Hawaiian Wedding Dresses and More! I recieved my dress close to a week ago, it's exactly what I was looking for and what was advertised!! Sizing was true to the chart so the dress actually fit perfectly. Everything ships out priority mail so will get there within 2-3 days. It came with an additional light shawl/scarf type thing as well, which was a surprise as I didn't see that advertised. But cool, I may or may not use it! Here's what I ordered, NEW! Turtle Beach Wedding Dress I love it! Hope this helps someone else! Lisa

Hi all, just wondering if anyone had made any purchases from www.hawaiianweddingshop. com and what their experience was? They have a lot of more casual, islandy dresses on there (ok there is definitely a few frumpy ones though!!)....but for the most part really cool stuff. I finally bit the bullet yesterday and ordered a dress but I am so nervous about how it will look. It is returnable (less a 20% restocking fee) so I think it will be fine, and I have tried on other similar dresses which I liked...but still very nervous about ordering a dress online! If anyone else does use the site I found a 10% off promo code which worked beautifully, enter in savvy10. It says it expires July 31, 2010. I will let you know how this place works out for me...just hoping other people have had good experiences there!! Thanks everyone! Lisa

Hi all, just wanted to say hello and introduce myself! I have been using this website for a few months now, and it has been invaluable so far, don't know what I would have done without it. Don't know what took me so long to sign up!! Anyhow we are getting married July 4, 2010 at the Aruba Marriott...so looking forward to it!! Lisa