Editing SD and HD footage together in one project in FCE

I have both SD and HD footage that I have imported (in addition to still shots) into a project, which is now ready to edit in FCE. This is my wedding video and I would love to avoid as many problems as possible before I get too far down the road in editing. Is there anything I should know about combining the SD and HD footage in FCE? Are there certain settings that I should check before editing? I am concerned about aspect ratios and how that might ultimately skew the picture when burned to a DVD. Any basic guidelines that you could provide would be very helpful. Thanks!

This is great information, thank you. After reading the responses, (and doing some additional research) I think I'll try create a shortened version of the video using only the HD footage and share via youtube and/or vimeo. I would also like to produce a longer video (under 1 hour) that includes both my DV and HD footage and burn that DVD for a few people. Given that I will be burning this to DVD, it seems that I should downsize the HD footage before editing to have it all at the DV level for one sequence in my FCE project. I have two questions for creating this longer video with the output to DVD:
1) How to downsize the HD footage: there seems to be several suggestions for this process, so I was wondering which is the most effective (and least time consuming). Please note that I have already loaded all the clips (DV and HD clips) and still photos into a new project, which took some time. I hope to be able to leverage that effort in some way (so I don't have to start from scratch again).
     a) Convert the HD footage using Streamclip before bringing it into the project
     b) Select the HD clips and export using Quicktime Conversion, select the DV codec, and resize for DV aspect ratio pixels (either 720 x 365 to match 4:3 DV aspect ratio, or 720 x 405 to match the 16:9 DV aspect ratio)
     c) Put all the HD clips in the project and do a batch export to DV
     d) Create a DV sequence in FCE and drag all HD clips to the timeline, which will automatically downsize them and will then require rendering
     e) Create a DV sequence in FCE and drag all HD clips to the timeline, then highlight all the HD clips, go to Modify > Fit to Sequence, which should resize it to match the sequence settings
     f) Resize the HD footage using a 3rd party app called Compressor before bringing it into the project
2) Do I still need to crop the footage even after downsizing the HD footage? I assume that "crop" means that the image will stil be too big for the DV level editing, so part of the image will not fit, so I will need to scale it (or something like that). Is that right? It seems very labor intensive to do that for every clip, hopefully this is not the case.
Thank you for your help!

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