Post-processing help...please...

I've attached a couple sort of typical pictures from a July 7 wedding. It was a hot midwest day, 95F, bluebird sky, very bright. I really like much of what I got, but could use a little help with the processing. What's posted here is with and without a slightly toned down midnight sepia action. I'd appreciate any thoughts that you might have on what you'd do with them. (The groom was a squinter and it was a squinting sort of day.) Thanks a lot.

1. Post-ceremony formal under a gazebo. The gazebo had an unpainted ceiling which may explain the slight yellow cast.
http://www.tnicol.net/​potn/IMG_9185.jpg
2. Same with midnight sepia.
http://www.tnicol.net/​potn/IMG_9185-v2.jpg
3. Reception, late afternoon.
http://www.tnicol.net/​potn/IMG_9419.jpg
4. Same with midnight sepia.
http://www.tnicol.net/​potn/IMG_9419-v2.jpg

I actually really prefer both images without the MS on them... really...
maybe a slight vignette on the first, but it looks fine as is!!

WElcome!!!

Thanks very much Kathy. I appreciate your having a look and your thoughts.

Both good shots, only thing id say is lighten the the couple up and drop the back grounds off a little, vignette will do it T

these are very good! if you shot in RAW and would like to keep the background, see if you can bring the exposure down on one layer and just mask the couple in.

im not really sure if what i said made sense, ... LOL! so pardon me, i didnt mean to cause any confusion.

roeddel wrote in post #3647063
...see if you can bring the exposure down on one layer and just mask the couple in...

Thanks very much for this. Yes, I get it. It's similar to a suggestion Petra made in https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=354401 which seems to work pretty well.