Did you guys go to a restaurant? I know in some parts of the country the dates go together to a restaurant and then to the prom where it's just dancing. My area the prom serves dinner just like a wedding reception so you're there from like 6-11.
And we live in a small town so there are no hotels around for 20 miles. One rich girl would host the after party every year where her parents provided booze and took all our keys and we slept over on the floor, about 40 people.
We always went to a restaurant first then to the prom where it was just snacks and dancing.
Did you guys go to a restaurant? I know in some parts of the country the dates go together to a restaurant and then to the prom where it's just dancing. My area the prom serves dinner just like a wedding reception so you're there from like 6-11.
And we live in a small town so there are no hotels around for 20 miles. One rich girl would host the after party every year where her parents provided booze and took all our keys and we slept over on the floor, about 40 people.
Our grad had a huge dinner and dance for all grads and their parents and guests. We had 45ish people in our graduating class but there were 200+ at the actual grad due to dates, parents, grandparents and other guests. They had a sit down meal, a couple speeches and then party.
At midnight the banquet hall shut down and all the grads and their dates changed out of their dress clothes and into jeans and hoodies and got on a bunch of school busses. We were shipped out to an acreage in the middle of no-where for our 'safe grad' where it was basically just a bonfire booze fest that had parent chaperones and a medic on standby. A bus left the acreage everyhour taking kids back to the highschool where their parents could pick them up.
Did you guys go to a restaurant? I know in some parts of the country the dates go together to a restaurant and then to the prom where it's just dancing. My area the prom serves dinner just like a wedding reception so you're there from like 6-11.
And we live in a small town so there are no hotels around for 20 miles. One rich girl would host the after party every year where her parents provided booze and took all our keys and we slept over on the floor, about 40 people.
For our prom they did dinner at the dance, but for homecoming we went out to dinner beforehand (after pictures at someone's house).
Did you guys go to a restaurant? I know in some parts of the country the dates go together to a restaurant and then to the prom where it's just dancing. My area the prom serves dinner just like a wedding reception so you're there from like 6-11.
And we live in a small town so there are no hotels around for 20 miles. One rich girl would host the after party every year where her parents provided booze and took all our keys and we slept over on the floor, about 40 people.
For our prom they did dinner at the dance, but for homecoming we went out to dinner beforehand (after pictures at someone's house).
This is how it was for our prom as well. But I don't remember eating anything at prom. And since we decided to stay until almost the end of the dance by the time we got to the after party everyone was either drunk or passed out.
@jenna8984 - we went out to dinner at a restaurant. I'm sure the servers in our town LOVED prom night...
For an after party, our high school hosted a GIANT after party with blow up obstacle courses, a money grab machine, fortune tellers, carnival games, contests, cake walks, a gladiator pit, price is right inspired games. It literally took over the half the school. The purpose was to keep kids from driving drunk and away from parties that would have alcohol/drugs and little supervision. Honestly, it was really fun and most people went, so I guess it worked.
I'll play! I love looking at everyones prom dresses.
2008, senior prom but I was a junior. I went with a friend. I'm in the pink and had horrible highlights. And like @emmaaa mentioned, brighter dresses were "in". Mine was subdued compared to many I tried on before it haha
2007 junior prom but I was a sophomore! Also went with a friend. This is before I left. I wore clear heels and than changed into Chuck Taylors lol. My feet thanked me. I found this dress used for $12 at a thrift store. I think it even had the tags still on it.
I had to dig through my friend's FB for this one. I'm the 4th one from the left. I had a baby blue princess dress, and yes, that is a tiara on my head. My date is the 3rd guy from the left. Yes he is wearing a baby blue vest and tie to match my dress.
The year was 2002, it was my senior prom. My date was actually someone I had been dating for I think about a year and a half. He broke my little heart. I always wanted more than what he wanted. Right before prom, he told me that he would take me to my prom, but that would be it, we would only be friends. I think he said we wanted different things or something. And guys, at the time, I was SO infatuated with him. I was 16 when I met him, and he took me on my first real date (the Cloisters, which I had told him I was DYING to go to), and dinner afterwards at the Olive Garden. Fancy! There was a lot of "breaking up" and "getting back together" during our "relationship."
Some background on the pic, the girl to me left was my HS BFF. She is the one that I started a thread about, who was being nasty about my bachelorette party. The girl on the far right was one of my HS bff's, and we have remained great friends throughout the years, even vacationing together. She now lives in Chicago, but she is actually flying in for my bachelorette party and bridal shower this weekend. And my Prom date. We agreed right before leaving for college to try and work things out between us and not see other people. Then I met FI. We had a huge fight, and didn't talk for months. Made up, then didn't speak for years. We always had the same core group of friends, and a few years ago we spoke about things, and have remained friends again. He is one of my best friends (he is part of the "Wolfpack" a group chat with 6 of us on what's app), and he finally met FI last year. He's even coming to our wedding It's amazing how things sometimes have a way of falling into place.
My prom was 20 years ago, so I have no idea where my pics are. I will search for them later. But I thought my date was so cool. He wore Airwalk shoes with his tux. I loved that. We went to dinner before the dance, stopped by the dance for pics and a little dancing and left early to go drinking around SF. Among other places, our limo took us to Ghirardelli Sq and The Golden Gate bridge vista point on the Marin side and we all just hung out and got really drunk.
I wanna play!! I graduated in 2003, so those are all verrry early 2000s style.
Sophomore Homecoming. I'm in the middle in the right dress. 3rd from left is still one of my BFFs and my bridesmaid! She's in the other pics too!
Junior Homecoming--I am far left; bridesmaid is far right (starting to think I should remind her to open her eyes for wedding pics ;p
Junior Prom--I'm far right, bridesmaid is middle:
Senior homecoming--Too bad the lighting sucks, because this is the ultimate 2002 hairstyle--straight but twisty updo. My BF and I were starting to hate each other. You can tell in the pictures--I don't think I have a single one where we're both smiling...
Did you guys go to a restaurant? I know in some parts of the country the dates go together to a restaurant and then to the prom where it's just dancing. My area the prom serves dinner just like a wedding reception so you're there from like 6-11.
And we live in a small town so there are no hotels around for 20 miles. One rich girl would host the after party every year where her parents provided booze and took all our keys and we slept over on the floor, about 40 people.
Our grad had a huge dinner and dance for all grads and their parents and guests. We had 45ish people in our graduating class but there were 200+ at the actual grad due to dates, parents, grandparents and other guests. They had a sit down meal, a couple speeches and then party.
At midnight the banquet hall shut down and all the grads and their dates changed out of their dress clothes and into jeans and hoodies and got on a bunch of school busses. We were shipped out to an acreage in the middle of no-where for our 'safe grad' where it was basically just a bonfire booze fest that had parent chaperones and a medic on standby. A bus left the acreage everyhour taking kids back to the highschool where their parents could pick them up.
This is similar to ours, minus the parents. We had ours at a banquet hall that hosts weddings and other events. Most of us then went back to a hotel downtown and partied the rest of the night, half the class was 19 so half could legally drink and/or buy alcohol for the rest of the people. We had a blender, ice cream, Baileys and Kaluha in our room. It was a fun night.
My freshman year, they had an after party at a bowling alley. If you signed up and didn't show, they called your parents. So I told my mom I'd signed up but didn't so I could go to a party and get drunk. My stupid sister knew I was lying and told my mom, who called to see if I'd signed up.
God damn older siblings and their knowledge of lies.
No crazy pictures but definitely have a story. So we had a group of about 12 people going to the Prom together. Great group, we're all friends, all's good, no problem. Well everyone stayed at my house that night. Somewhere between the end of the prom and breakfast the next morning....one guy dumped his date, one girl dumped her date, and we all woke up to the two of them cuddled together. Whoa awkward for all...especially their dates. The newly formed 'couple' also just continued to cling to each other until everyone left my house. My parents came down that day and saw them together on the couch and after everyone left just looked and me and were like...didn't they come with so-and-so and so-and-so? I just burst out laughing because it was so weird to all of us there and even my parents noticed it!
I didn't want to go to prom. I ended up going because the friend of a friend wanted to go, so my prom experience was going as a blind date. It wasn't great, and the guy (and his friends) were super weird. I'm on the far left. I remember thinking that the girl on the right's dress looked like a vagina.
I don't fit into my dress now, but a few years ago my girlfriends and I dressed up in our prom dresses for the hell of it. The dresses fit us much better in our 20's. Finally growing boobs helped the dress a lot, although it's borderline indecent now. lol.
I didn't want to go to prom. I ended up going because the friend of a friend wanted to go, so my prom experience was going as a blind date. It wasn't great, and the guy (and his friends) were super weird. I'm on the far left. I remember thinking that the girl on the right's dress looked like a vagina.
I don't fit into my dress now, but a few years ago my girlfriends and I dressed up in our prom dresses for the hell of it. The dresses fit us much better in our 20's. Finally growing boobs helped the dress a lot, although it's borderline indecent now. lol.
Moose's class is having prom this year at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, which is a pretty cool venue. Very Chihuly modern art vibe.
(What ever happened to streamers in the gym?)
(I have no prom pictures. I didn't go.
I was busy being a rebel without a clue. Going to community college and living in a sort of vague commune.
I missed out, sort of. )
That is the coolest venue ever. I'm jealous. I think my venue was some standard ballroom. I don't really remember. I just remember it was "princess" themed and they had a Cinderella carriage outside that you could wait to ride around in.
@hellohkb Your red dress is super similar to the one I wore, but mine was black and only had one little rhinestone buckle thingamajig. Also? Werkkk, you are so pretty!
I scoured my Facebook photos but couldn't find any prom photos. I only went to my junior prom, I thought I was too cool for senior prom and just went to an after party instead with my bff. I did come across my sweet 16 girl group shot which I'm going to share just because...
We had after-prom parties too. One was at this massive rec center with rock climbing and sumo wrestling (you know, with the giant padded suits).
It kept people out of trouble-- those that chose to go. It was pretty fun but I'm an early bird who likes to sleep. Lots of us were just passed out in the lobby, actually.
Our proms are also like weddings in that they include dinner. I remember having a lot of fun at both junior and senior prom, although my boyfriend and I got into some fight that I don't even remember now, at the after party.
Jessica McClintock ball gowns were ALL the rage, as were the two-piece dresses (crop top with ball skirt).
We had after-prom parties too. One was at this massive rec center with rock climbing and sumo wrestling (you know, with the giant padded suits).
It kept people out of trouble-- those that chose to go. It was pretty fun but I'm an early bird who likes to sleep. Lots of us were just passed out in the lobby, actually.
Our proms are also like weddings in that they include dinner. I remember having a lot of fun at both junior and senior prom, although my boyfriend and I got into some fight that I don't even remember now, at the after party.
Jessica McClintock ball gowns were ALL the rage, as were the two-piece dresses (crop top with ball skirt).
Man... fun times.
Ha, mine was a Jessica McClintock! Not a ball gown, though.
The blue dress is my FI and I at junior prom and the one where I am in the multi colored dress is my senior prom.
For my senior prom my FI was at a military college. My best friends helped him get a prom ticket and his advisors at school helped him get home to surprise me right before the dance. It was pretty special. A bunch of people came together to get him back to the barracks by taps!
Re: S/O Prom pics
Yes he is wearing a baby blue vest and tie to match my dress.
I haven't looked at these pictures in forever. And wow, we both look so different even though it ws only 5 years ago.
Sophomore Homecoming. I'm in the middle in the right dress. 3rd from left is still one of my BFFs and my bridesmaid! She's in the other pics too!
Junior Homecoming--I am far left; bridesmaid is far right (starting to think I should remind her to open her eyes for wedding pics ;p
Junior Prom--I'm far right, bridesmaid is middle:
Senior homecoming--Too bad the lighting sucks, because this is the ultimate 2002 hairstyle--straight but twisty updo. My BF and I were starting to hate each other. You can tell in the pictures--I don't think I have a single one where we're both smiling...
This is similar to ours, minus the parents. We had ours at a banquet hall that hosts weddings and other events. Most of us then went back to a hotel downtown and partied the rest of the night, half the class was 19 so half could legally drink and/or buy alcohol for the rest of the people. We had a blender, ice cream, Baileys and Kaluha in our room. It was a fun night.
I don't fit into my dress now, but a few years ago my girlfriends and I dressed up in our prom dresses for the hell of it. The dresses fit us much better in our 20's. Finally growing boobs helped the dress a lot, although it's borderline indecent now. lol.
For my senior prom my FI was at a military college. My best friends helped him get a prom ticket and his advisors at school helped him get home to surprise me right before the dance. It was pretty special. A bunch of people came together to get him back to the barracks by taps!