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After agreeing on just about everything for the wedding to this point, King Hippo recently put the kibosh on one of my brilliant ideas. Boo!

See, we’ve been on the hunt for a recessional song for a while now. I was wanting something upbeat and fun with feel good lyrics. After much searching, I came up with (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher. That’s not what we disagreed on. In fact, the mister agreed to that selection pretty quickly so all was good. But then my creative brain starting churning and I thought, “How can we make our wedding even more memorable and unique?” This, my friends, is where we ran into trouble.

After listening to the song over and over again, I realized that it would be awesome to have it performed live by a group instead of just playing the recorded version. I imagined a group of singers hidden for the entire ceremony but emerging just for the final song, serenading the crowd as we recessed up the aisle as man and wife, followed by our bridal party. But not just any group of singers. A gospel choir! Kinda like this:

Oh, don’t fool yourself, the Hippos most certainly are not on an unlimited wedding budget.

In fact, we pretty much have zero dollars budgeted for ceremony music, which is why we are using the art gallery’s awesome sound system and having a close friend play guitar. But I am not one to be limited by budget. There had to be a way! I did some internet hunting and discovered that my university has a gospel choir. Sweet! I shot off an email to the Student Affairs department and was able to find the contact for the group who said the choir had performed at a couple of other weddings and would perform a song at the ceremony for a mere $100. One hundred dollars, yo! I. am. a. genius.

Uhhhh…King Hippo didn’t think so. He thought the idea was over the top. Too flashy. Too much. “But it’s only $100!” Didn’t matter. It was the perception of it being extravagant that he was opposed to. While I think it would be awesome and unique and memorable, King Hippo thought it was extreme. This, my friends, was one battle I wasn’t going to win, and with only two months left on the countdown clock, I’m not going to spend any energy trying to convince him. It’s just as well…keeping track of a gospel choir would be just one more thing to worry about. And maybe he’s right. I can see some of our guests being turned off, thinking we were making this wedding a big production. Although…I do think it was a pretty brilliant idea with a totally affordable price tag. Alas.

Have you had ideas you thought were completely brilliant that your significant other vetoed?