There’s something to be said for saying your vows with the sand between your toes and the clear Caribbean Sea behind you. Chris and Rachel were able to celebrate their recent wedding with friends and family last weekend, so I wanted to share their wedding slideshow with all of you. I’ll post a few of my favorite images below, but you’ll have to watch the slideshow to get the full effect of how much it rocks to get married on a beach in Jamaica.

Click here to watch Chris + Rachel’s wedding slideshow!

This first shot is one of my favorite from the day… Chris’ expression when first seeing his bride…

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  • jennie - April these look amazing! Fabulous job! I absolutely love the shot when he was slipping her ring onto her finger (the horizontal one) among MANY others. That one is just stuck in my brain. Kudos girl!

  • isabel - You did a PHENOM! job 🙂

  • Lesley - Finally, I could not wait to see another Jamaica wedding. Makes me want to go back. These are beautiful!

  • Nancy - April, these are fabulous! I knew they’d be awesome!

  • Emily Beaty - Beautiful work, April! What a perfect location!!

  • Lisa E - April, I have your site in my favorites and always check it for your latest work. I just had to comment on this wedding. You did a fantastic job capturing a sweet love story. Just beautiful!!

  • leesia - these are SO gorgeous!!

I asked Angela + Steve to bring something that they both love with them to their engagement session. They showed up with wine. Not just any wine… wine brought back from a trip to Italy. And three glasses. It was then that I knew that I loved them… 🙂

Love, love, love this shot…

Yes, I made them throw leaves. I don’t care if it’s cheesy. It was FUN.

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  • Concetta - April, those are great photos! You are amazing.

  • Nancy - These are awesome! My favorites are the one on the bridge and the leaves! Great Job!

  • Judy(Steve's Mom) - Beautiful. We look forward to your wedding shots!

  • Emily Beaty - Wow that ring shot is amazing!!! Another beautiful session! 🙂

  • Tish Mackay - She ring is so awesome – great shot! 🙂

  • Nicole Larocco - Amazing. . . April, you’ve really captured their personality!

  • Angela - I love them all! The slideshow is wonderful! The wedding is going to be so much fun!

I admit, I have a serious sweet tooth. Always have. Candies, cupcakes, cookies… don’t stand a chance. When I came across the Etsy shop, SugarCookieCouture, I knew I had to share. Her cookies not only look delicious, they look adorable and there are many different themes so you’re sure to find one for the sugar fiend in your life. I’ve decided that my favorite, the I Love Doggies Sugar Cookies, would make the perfect GIVEAWAY!

Read below for contest rules…

TO ENTER:

To enter, simply leave a comment here! To leave a comment, click the ‘add a comment’ link below. Entries are limited to one per person.

However, you can earn extra chances simply by spreading the word about the contest. Post about it on your own blog, Facebook, or Twitter account, linking to www.aprilziegler.com, and you can earn an additional entry for each place that you post. Bonus! So you could earn up to 4 chances to win! Make sure you come back here to leave a separate comment for each to be counted again and link to where you wrote about the contest. Good luck!

A winner will be chosen at random on Thursday, November 12, after 12 p.m. Eastern time!

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  • Vanessa - OOooooh those look so yummy! Pick me pick me 🙂

  • kara - so cute! the little Scottie!!!

  • Vanessa - Posted on Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/profile.php?ref=profile&id=712415580

  • Vanessa - ….and on Twitter http://twitter.com/vlewis0701

  • Jaidean - Those are so cute!

  • Jaidean - I tweeted (or retweeted your post!). 🙂

  • Shauna - Those are incredible looking. I personally love the daschund since that is what our family dog is.

  • Amanda Carlson - Those look amazing! I tweeted it!

  • Amanda Carlson - And posted to my FB profile! 🙂

  • Concetta - Ruby and her pal Jackson would LOVE those!

  • Zoe - So cute!!!

  • Jules - SUPER cute- mmm, I can feel my sweet tooth kicking in too!!

  • Jules - and retweeted . . I hope you have hundreds of visitors!!

  • Jules - and shared it on facebook too!!!

  • julie - Those look amazing! Also posted on Twitter!

  • Gianna Aikman - What a nice sweet doggy themed treat jsut in time for the National Dog Shows this weekend!!

  • Gianna Aikman - I added to my facebook page – who wouldn’t brag about April or these treas!!!

  • Vicky - I sure could use a pick-me-up today. My 10 year old Maltese, who has always been in full coat, is having a haircut. He’s tired of all the grooming but it just breaks my heart. Mom will need sugar 🙂

  • Sarah - These are so cute! How could you resist! Also posting on my FB and twitter!

  • Lesley - too cute! I love sugar cookies but never have the patience to decorate them.

  • leesia - yummmm — these are so cute!

  • Emily Beaty - How adorable!!! They look sooooo good!

  • Emily Beaty - I retweeted your tweet… 🙂

  • Nancy - Love these! Sam would like the firehydrant!

  • Lauren - Thanks for the giveaway!

  • Capri D'Amario - they look Dee-lish!!

  • Kelly aka Miss Pug - I want in! Those are so cute!

  • Kelly aka Miss Pug - I also entered on facebook.

  • Kelly aka Miss Pug - Andddd I tweeted it too (@kjpugs) Thanks for doing this!

  • Ali - How cute and tasty do those look?!? Great giveaway, who doesn’t love cookies?

  • Ali - I also tweeted about this (@frenchiewbee)

  • Ali - AANDD I posted about it on Facebook 🙂

  • Prototype - Cookies are good! I have tweeted this too @thedjprototype

  • jennie - These are adorable! I RTed 🙂

  • gingela5 - yummmy! I want it I want it! 🙂

  • gingela5 - And I just retweeted your tweet! 🙂

  • Jessica Wright - How cute are those?!

  • floreta - so i’m a bit confused. are these dog treats? but if not i’d like to enter!! i don’t have a dog! =/

  • Tish Mackay - Those are sooooooooo freaking cute! 🙂

  • Donna - They sure look yummy!! My sweet tooth would love them too!!

  • Sabah - Cookies?! They have tarnished cookie monster to now say, “Cookies are a sometimes snack”– blasphemy!

  • Cathie - While I’m partial to you dog photos (and dog cookies look yummy), the pics of Angela and Steve are just beautiful!

  • Mike - Both cookies and pics are great. I’m sure my pup would love the snacks!

  • Rose - They are so cute, it would be hard to eat them, but I would do it!

  • Jen - SO cute! Right with you on the sweet tooth!

  • Amanda Carlson - I posted to my FB fan page!

  • Angela Compton - These are sooo cute!

  • Annise McManus - Those cookies look yummy! I so could use a sugar rush right now to get me going! Love the doggie theme, but she needs to add a cute Huey in there (my little frenchie of course) LOL! Good luck to all!

  • Rebecca - Dash would just go crazy for those coookies! But so would I….

  • Rebecca - Posted on facebook, blog AND twitter! wahoo!

  • Ann - My dog pupcake would love those! Or are those for people.. either way, they look delicious! 🙂

  • megan v - mmmmmm….cooooookies!

Are you back for your pug fix? I thought so. It’s not like you can resist this face. I totally L.O.V.E. this first shot, so much that I ordered it as a 20 x 30 print that will hang in my office as soon as we get it furnished (we just passed two years of unfurnishedness, so I’m not holding my breath!). Many people are afraid to go BIG with prints… so I will have to post a photo of this on display so you can see how sweet your images can look when printed large and fabulous…

Pugs are so expressive… Doesn’t he look like he’s smiling? Just call me the pug charmer…

Can’t resist a curly piggy pug tail…


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Posted in: Pets
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  • john...of johnwairephoto - and here i thought you were the bull dog master — let’s add pug to the plate as well. awesome series.

  • Emily Beaty - these are great. that first one is going to look awesome BIG!

  • Kelly aka Miss Pug - SWOOOOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • isabel - I love them!

  • Bev - Oh my.. Simply gorgeous session!

  • leesia - what a smile!! love that curly tail.

  • jennie - I want to pinch his little pug wrinkles. Lovin that second shot, April 🙂

  • Nick - Hah ugs always look so happy 🙂 Great job here!

  • Tish Mackay - Such a sweet face – makes me miss my friend’s pug named Gus.