Something fluffy - 2003 Prom Talk!!

[Soccer Princess]

Pam - Well everything UofL is Papa John's sponsered now. The old Cardinal Satdium is at the Fairgrounds and Expo center right by Six Flags Ky Kingdom. Our prom is at the new Cardinal Stadium closer to UofL's campus. I hope our "day after" is much nicer this year !

 

[BobbinWeez]

Pam

I think I spent equal amounts of time on the dance floor and in the ladies room safety pinning my strapless bra to my dress. My guy friends kept asking where we were going... just a few weeks ago a bunch of us were talking about our prom and when I told this story the guys were like so that's where you kept going.

 

[Evil Princess]

Eerrrr, where do you guys shop? I got my dress with a discount, paid less than most of my friends, and spent $260 with tax!!!

I'm going to prom, its on June 26th. I'm taking my ex boyfriend, I went out with him for two years before he left for college. I've been to His Jr. Banquet, my Jr. Banquet, and his prom...4/4 with the same date lol.

We rented an Escalade limo, 24 passengers. Our prom is held at the Crest Hollow Country Club and we have rented a house in the Hamptons for after prom. We have the house for a week, its 10 bedrooms and its really nice.

Ugh, don't even ask how much this is costing me! Thank goodness I have a job! My hair and nail appointments are booked, I'm getting my shoes on Saturday.

BTW, my dress is princess pink, it's a princess dress. I'm only 5'1, but they look much better on me than cocktail dresses.

Here's a pic of me (I cut out my ex, he looked silly in the pic lol) from last year's prom. My dress was from Cache, and it was around 200. I liked it cause it was Pink and shimmery

ed: I'm so bad at this pic thing, so here's the link:
http://www.members.aol.com/evilprincess598/

 

[hipporina]

I wish I could go to prom again!! Or at least get all dressed up and go out for dinner. I could skip the crummy school prom part. Ours was horrible. I just love the fancy dresses though. My first year, I had the most horrible time finding a dress. After I had tried on about 50 (at least seemed likt it) I tried on one my mom had seen in the window and suggested. Sure enough, it was THE dress. The bad part, it was $350. By that point, we were all so frustrated with finding one, that my mom got it for me! I still love it. The next year, I went much cheaper though.

Just a note about all these long term relationships while young. I went to both of my proms with the man who is now my dh. We started dating when I was 15, married at 18, and now have two little boys that we are adopting. He is 4 years older than I am and it is working great. I am so glad that I got to share such an exciting event with dh.

 

[TeresaNJ]

My DD, Lauren, who is 17 and a junior just told me last night that she is now going to her prom, which is May 9. In fact, she already found a gown yesterday when her and her friend went out prom gown shopping. The last I heard, she wasn't going, as her boyfriend graduated last year from a different high school, and she didn't think he would want to go to her prom because he doesn't know anyone. She thought maybe she would go with a guy friend, and I told her that I didn't think that was right, as how would she like it if her boyfriend took another girl "friend" to his prom because he thought she would be uncomfortable not knowing anyone. So she called him yesterday and asked him if it would be okay if she went to her prom with a friend, and he thought she meant a girl! She was like, "why would I want to go to the prom with a girl!" So he said it was okay with him if that's what she really wanted to do, and she asked him if he would be angry. He said no, not unless she did something for him to be angry about. Then she told him she didn't think he would want to go, being in college and everything, but he said he would like to go, so now they're going!! Whew! So anyway, the gown she described sounds very pretty, it's white and strapless (she wore white and strapless last year), with an overlay of a sheer floral print with tiny beads and crystals. It sounds pretty, and ONLY $260! Fortunately, her dad, whom I'm divorced from, will be paying half. Here is a picture of her from last year's prom.

 

[jsmith]

Prom is April 26-I have not seen DS's GF dress but she bought it on a spring break trip to NYC and she lent me the wrap so I could match his tux-its a really pretty red so DS is wearing a white tux w/ red floral vest and bow tie. We will get her white roses with red ribbons and she is getting him a red boutoneer. They should look quite imposing since they are both very tall and slim( he is 6'6", she 5'11" before heels). No limo-they will go in our Escalade. Dinner is the melting pot (yum) and the dance is at a large community hall. After Prom is at the local rec center until 400-then out to breakfast. Last year we were getting up to go to early Mass when they got home!

 

[FOJMO]

Originally posted by Soccer Princess
Well our prom is April 25th and I thought I'd throw my 2 cents in. Some people do the limo thing here, some don't. I think we are just taking the BMW and saving major $$$.

Aghh, the saga of my dress. First a green one, then a pink one, and finally a black and white one. It's fitted at the top and flairs out some. It's very classic looking and has spaghetti straps that crisscross across my back. I love it!!! This dress was only $100!! (Super cheap compared to most) I am wearing shoes from our Winter Wonderland dance (tall black with rhinstone buckles). I am yet to get a purse..hmm I should be working on this.

Our prom is at the Brown and Williamson clubhouse room at Cardinal Stadium. It sounds odd, but really, its nice. We are eating dinner at the Flagship which is a rotating restaurant on top of the Galt House hotel. It has a great view of the city and river! We should be there during sunset too which will be great.

After prom, we are all spending the night at one of the guy's house-- just play some pool, watch movies and hang out. Then the next morning we are getting up around 7 or 8 (yes we are crazy I know) to drive up to Kings Island for the day. That night we are driving back and crashing at someone's house to end our prom weekend.

Price Breakdown (he is paying for some of this but it's evrything I know)
Dress: $100
Black strapless bra: $30
Shoes: Already have
Purse: ?
Jewelry: Already have
Bout.: ?
Hair Updo: $40
Hair Highlights: $60
Nails: $30
Make Up: Free (gotta love Clinique!)
Well, maybe a lipstick so like $20
Tanning Bed: $30
Tickets: $50
Favors: $15
Dinner: $60 (Pre-set prom meal in course @ $30 ea.)
Pictures: around $50
Kings Island Tickets: $40

Well, this post just BLEW ME AWAY! That totals over $500!!!. For a PROM????

You're "just taking the BMW" instead of the Limo???? BMW????? Whoa and excuse me?

You're all staying overnight at one of the GUY's house (girls and guys staying overnight). Who allows this???

Maybe I'm showing my age, but my DD wouldn't be allowed to do ANY of the above (spend that much money; take a BMW -- who's is it?; and stay overnight at a guy's house.

NO WAY...

 

[Minnesota!]

My prom was in 1996 - my bf at the time - now DH, had his in April and mine was in May. About 3 week apart. Anyway, my dress was hot pink (I will try and post a pic), and I LOVED IT!! Got it at Macy's for about $250. Shoes were silver strappy sandles - about $40 at Sears. Hair cost $40. We rented a limo for prom 1 - a friend of ours had her dad pay for it (there were 5 couples that went together to prom 1). Prom 2 we went with another couple and he drove his dad's brand new caddy. So that was free. Prom 1 we went to dinner at an Italian place, probably cost about $60. Prom 2 was at Awada's, which is a nice restaurant in St. Paul. Dinner was close to $70. Then the prom tix were $45 for one, $50 for the other. I had a wrist corsage for each - about $15. After prom 1 we went to a hotel - a bunch of couples. We bought *umm* beer and partied all night. Cost about $70 per couple for that. After prom 2 we went back to my house, us and 2 couples, and watched movies and slept. So that was free. With all my accesories (purse, jewelry etc.) it was about $70. So, in all, my prom(s) cost me about $725. Divided - about $365 a prom, which I think is really cheap....

 

[Soccer Princess]

Originally posted by FOJMO
Well, this post just BLEW ME AWAY! That totals over $500!!!. For a PROM????

You're "just taking the BMW" instead of the Limo???? BMW????? Whoa and excuse me?

You're all staying overnight at one of the GUY's house (girls and guys staying overnight). Who allows this???

Maybe I'm showing my age, but my DD wouldn't be allowed to do ANY of the above (spend that much money; take a BMW -- who's is it?; and stay overnight at a guy's house.

NO WAY...

I really don't see what's so outrageous about that. That is average at my school, actually on the lower end of average. I have a job and I'm getting a full scholarship to college so I think I can spend that much and I don't feel bad. The BMW is my date's mom's. We would take his Prelude but it's really small.

How old is your daughter??? Staying the night at the guy's house is really not a big deal. There will be like 20 or so of us there, so apparently all of those parents allow it. I think it really depends on how much you trust your child. Next year we will all be away at college and there's no way to control what we do then. It's not a big deal with most people here.

 

[Keli]

I'm not sure Ashli will go to prom this year. She's trying to decide what she thinks would be the best thing to do since Titus is in Iraq. I think it's hard for her to reconcile the idea of partying at prom knowing that he's in a dangerous place. If the war has ended by then and Titus is relatively safe at that point I'm sure she'll want to go with a group of girlfriends or something.

 

[FOJMO]

Originally posted by Soccer Princess
How old is your daughter??? Staying the night at the guy's house is really not a big deal. There will be like 20 or so of us there, so apparently all of those parents allow it. I think it really depends on how much you trust your child. Next year we will all be away at college and there's no way to control what we do then. It's not a big deal with most people here.

My DD is 17. And it has nothing whatsoever to do with trust and everything to do with being inappropriate, IMO.

And when my DD is in college, you're right, she will do what she wants but, hopefully, because of the values she's been taught now, she'll make a wise decision instead of doing it "because it's no big deal."

I'd be curious to know how other DISers of teens would feel about a co-ed sleepover...

 

[Evil Princess]

I'm sleeping at a house in the Hamptons, and my prom cost is well over $1,000 at the moment. Yes, I am paying for almost all of it myself.

Did I mention I will be in this house with 20 people (10 bedrooms), 10 boys and 10 girls? For a week?

My parents trust me and they know that they raised me well. I have been to co-ed sleepovers at home. Honestly, what goes down at co-ed sleepovers? We all hang out and talk til late and night, and we SLEEP. No big deal, just more time to spend with your friends. I'm not attracted to any of my guy friends anyway.

 

[mowsie dreamer]

Ok, I have a feeling I might get flamed for this, but I have to admit that I have let DD go to a co-ed sleepover on New Year's Eve

But......having said that, let me say that is not something I would automatically do. In DD's case, I knew the family that was having the party really well and the mom assured me that boys & girls would be sleeping in separate rooms (not that they slept all that much anyway ) and it was a group of kids that DD had been friends with since elementary school. Oh, and also I knew that this family would not serve any alcohol to the kids. The kids all had a great time and nothing inappropriate happened.

Ok, I'm ducking and covering my head. Flame away, if you must.

 

[daughter_of_amid_chaos]

I'm going to prom. It is going to be my 3rd prom and I am going with a bunch of girls
It is on April 27th (yes a sunday) and I don't have a dress!!

 

[Soccer Princess]

Evil Princess - AMEN!!!!!

FOJMO - If you feel it's inappropriate, that's your opinion. I am very offended that in your implication that we are not "wise" and we don't have "good values." Almost all of my friends have received scholarships and have had jobs throughout high school. I think that alone shows our parents haven't let us commit mortal sin.
It does have to do with trust. If you have raised your daughter with good values until now, as you say you have, then you are basically saying you don't trust you've taught her well enough. If you've taught her well, there would be nothing "inappropriate" about it. By the way, I meant it was no big deal to our parents, who obviously understand teenagers better than you. Don't mean to start anything but you should really reconsider the meaning of good values.