Photo Collage - Which Product?

Morning All!
There was a special offer here with Groupon for printed canvasas, I've stocked up as there were a couple of images I always wanted blown up to +/- A1 size.  However, I bought more than I needed.  With the couple I have left, my plan is to create a collage of photos from my collection and then have it printed.
My question is, what software package is best for this?  We had a professional photo shoot done a couple of months ago, and the photographer used Lightroom when we he was displaying the pictures for us to choose, and I presume that this would also have been used for the editing and creating the collage?
I'm not after anything fancy, just something that is realitvely easy to use, and let's me drag and drop them into a template.  photos are all in either 16:9 or 6:4 ratio, and my plan was to have just simple rows of photos going along?
If the software was easy to use, then I might consider making some photos slightly bigger, etc, etc.
Attached, an idea of what I'm looking for.
Is Lightroom 3 what I want?

Picasa is free and easy to use and includes a flexible and quite powerful collage funciton which should have options enough to suit your idea.  I can't say that the learning curve of LR is worth it for your initial requirement but if you want to get serious about picture managament that's a different matter.    

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