Organizing Photos for an iMovie presentation...

Hi,
I have a real picture mess on my computer and would like some advise if there is some out there. 
I have more than one camera, I have an iPhone and I have several pictures which I have imported via scan.  Of course all these pictures have there own way of indexing.  How on earth do I begin organizing.
My main concern at the moment, which brought me here is...  I am trying despretly to organize a multitude of pictures to create a slideshow for my parent's 50th wedding anniversary.  I can import of course into various applications, but how do I organize.  First I tried Lightroom and that became frustrating.  Now I have moved onto iMovie...  which seems like the best place to create a simple slideshow.  When I import my pictures they are completely unorganized. 
MY QUESTION...  is there a simple way to import and organize just be dragging and dropping in the order I wish.
Thanks so much for all of your help, much appriciated.
Lorie

Ok, I only have a minute here, but the short answer is iPhoto.
Import some some photos. Go to the Events tab and split and combine them as needed. For the scanned photos, you can adjust the date and time.
Use a keyword to mark the photos you want to use for your anniversary show. Then create a Slideshow and add those photos to it. Edit to your hearts content, and finally export the slideshow as a video (however, if you can use your mac to power the projector, then you wouldn't need to export the slideshow as a movie).
Go to youtube.com and search for "iPhoto slideshow" to see some tutorials.

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