The final preparations are underway for Microsoft heiress Jennifer Gates' spectacular wedding to Egyptian equestrian Nayel Nassar in a lavish ceremony in Westchester, New York.
At Friday night's rehearsal dinner, father of the bride Bill Gates and his 25-year-old daughter could be seen sitting on the outdoor deck of her Westchester mansion with the pair laughing and joking before appearing deep in thought.
Bill and Melinda Gates, who divorced in August after 27 years of marriage, were seen together mingling with guests at the rehearsal dinner.
The outdoor wedding is set to be held on Saturday afternoon in an elaborate tent city erected on the family's 142-acre estate in North Salem, New York.
Father-of-the-bride-to-be Bill Gates listened intently as his daughter, Jennifer Gates, spoke to him just ahead of the rehearsal dinner on Friday night
An elaborate tent city has been erected outside the North Salem home of Bill and Melinda Gates, where daughter Jennifer where she is to wed this weekend
Workers are seen completing preparations for the elaborate wedding, set to take place on Saturday in Westchester
On Saturday morning, workers were scrambling to make last second adjustments with the wedding just hours away. This included a debate over climate control.
'I'm not sure what temperature to leave the venue so the dance floor doesn't bubble, and so we don't kill the trees,' one crew member warned.
As if on cue, one of the newly-erected trees toppled over onto the dance floor.
'It's a bloody mess down here,' one staffer laughed.
'I'm on it,' another replied.
Workers were hauling in white flowers in orange Home Depot 5-gallon buckets, to be placed along a walkway leading into the ceremony.
Preparations for the multi-million dollar wedding of Jennifer to Nayel Nassar have been underway for much of the week
The outdoor wedding is set to be held on Saturday afternoon on the family's 142-acre estate in North Salem, New York
The workers brought in their own catering, boxes of Dunkin Donuts and gallons of coffee.
Five ladies who call themselves 'the Sisterhood of the Walking Pants' strolled by the event, where a loud bandsaw hurt their eardrums.
'Here it's hours before the wedding and so much still to be done,' Diane, 80, told DailyMail.com. 'If I was the mother of the bride, I'd have so much angst.'
They were cracking jokes about crashing the party.
Amy, 62, took out a necklace of cultured pearls and placed it over her Hard Rock Cafe t-shirt. She was on crutches.
'She came out of rehab for this,' quipped her friend Joan, 56.
Gates wore an elegant white bridal dress while the groom wore a grey suit for the couple's pre-wedding photos on Friday
At one point the soon-to-be husband and wife shared a romantic smooch for the cameras
They posed as a happy couple, laughing and strolling down the scenic, tree-lined driveway
The couple posed for pictures on the deck and the driveway where they walked down together dancing and kissing
Earlier, on Friday, Melinda French Gates could be seen speaking to a man on the driveway
