Dressin' up da Groomie

In continuation on my wonderous Mr. Mek, we go on to discuss his attire.
Now, Mr. Mek and I have been back and forth on this. We've changed our colors and wedding ambiance soooo many times, that his attire has changed along with them. I would love for him to represent half of our ethnicity by wearing a barong. A barong is an embroidered formal garment of the Philippines. It is very lightweight and worn untucked (similar to a coat/dress shirt), over an undershirt. It is a common wedding and formal attire for Filipino men. But I know my hip-hop head of a fiance would not be feelin' it.

Barong

Originally we were thinking pants or slacks of some sort with a long sleeve button down shirt, with the sleeves rolled up. Sorda like this...

source: Macys', abercrombie and fitch, Island Importer

Then Mr. Mek decided that he wanted to wear a suit. A full suit. Jacket and all. I guess he figured he doesn't get to wear nice suits often so might as well take advantage. So, right after Easter, when all the spring sales are going on, we ventured out suit shopping. Mr. Mek must have thought he was Mr. Stylish or something because he was the pickiest shopper ever! At the time, we were leaning towards our colors being red and grey. He wanted a grey suit. I was thinking a light grey in a light fabric. Like this...

source: Macys, Macys, Macys

He didn't like linen suits; he said he didn't like the look of the textured fabric. All the suits he happened to like were heavy, dark grey, wool suits. A lil' much for a wedding in Hawaii. To humor him, since they were on sale anyways, we bought one.

source: my crappy cell phone camera

Now, he'd changed his mind again, but I feel for the better! Since we're mainly just doing red and there is no wedding party, just us, it makes sense for the attention to be on both of us, not just the one wearing the huge white dress. So....we're both going to be in white. And...get this...he'll be in a linen suit! We haven't ordered it yet (I figured we have plenty of time yet), but this is what we're leaning towards...

source: Island Importer

Did your groom change his mind as much as you did about your dress?!