Here's one last picture of a garden overlooking the river. We will be having the ceremony elsewhere, but the photographer was thrilled by all of the possibilities for taking the pictures.
After the tour, we went home and relaxed and talked about the details the WP went through with us, then went out for a lovely dinner.
The one odd note was that my daughter's fiancee mentioned that his father had emailed DH and had not heard anything back. DH located it in his spam folder. When we had our FaceTime call with them a few weeks ago, we were very clear that the budget for the reception wasn't unlimited and that the guest list couldn't exceed 130. They said absolutely nothing in response, and then a few days later, we got their guest list with 138 people on it.
We let DD handle letting them know that it had to be cut drastically. The email DH got two weeks ago was the father claiming that he had offered to pay for additional guests and wanting to know if there were any other expenses they could help with. DH responded, ignoring the false claim that there had been any offer to pay, telling him that we were lucky to get a venue less than a year before the wedding and it had a limit of 120 guests. He suggested that if they wanted to pay for the flowers or transportation, that would be greatly appreciated.
I hope this is the last bit of trouble they cause. I'm still agog at the cheek of the size of their list. I think they were trying it on, seeing if we would just go along with paying for their entire list, and when that didn't work, they claimed that they had offered to chip in. What's done is done, and we're very pleased with how things worked out with the venue.