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OP, make sure your school allows for college-aged prom dates before you ask. Some school districts put age limits on prom dates. (I'm glad that didn't happen to me! I took my now-husband to my senior prom. He was 24!)
I agree with the others about the promposals. It's too much of a big deal these days.
Good luck to you, and report back! We want to know how it goes!
That is a good point.
At my kids HS if you took a date from another school you needed signed permission from both school principals. They did have an age restriction, too, something like no older than 19 or 20 or graduated from HS within the last two years.
You kids watch too much TV. Everything has to be dramatic or creative or super-romantic. If you want to be creative and old-fashioned at the same time, give her a card at bowling. Or buy her a milkshake with a little flag in it that pops the question. Or take her to a dessert place afterwards, and have a pre-ordered cake delivered to the table that says, "Will you go to Prom with me?"
But remember the guys who do a big dramatic marriage proposal in public, like in the middle of a crowded restaurant, only to get turned down in front of a roomful of strangers. The more you go out on a limb, the farther you have to go if you crash.
You're not asking her to marry you. It's just a school dance. Sheesh.
Give the kid a break. He's still in high school. It's not like he actually talks to girls.
I know I'm old - and even my grandkids are past the prom age, but that hokey, impersonal dramatic way of screaming for the whole world to see and hear would embarrass me - and I'm not shy.
omg, I'm the mother of two teen girls and was a bit of a wallflower myself. I asked a guy friend to my senior prom. Nothing romantic. Too much is made of the prom as the best night of your life. It's just a dance and to put it on a pedestal is asking for a let down.
You do NOT need a fancy creative promposal. That is ridiculous. The fact that this is causing you anxiety is telling me that you are not the promposal type, and the girl who will go to prom with you is not that type either.
I personally find all of those "creative" ways to ask for dates/prom/marriages to be completely silly. I even think that first meets with a date should be something simple basic and standard. Leave the creative dates till after you get to actually know someone a little bit.
Just go old school and ask her "old fashioned" as you put it.
I personally find all of those "creative" ways to ask for dates/prom/marriages to be completely silly. I even think that first meets with a date should be something simple basic and standard. Leave the creative dates till after you get to actually know someone a little bit.
Just go old school and ask her "old fashioned" as you put it.
Do you want this to be romantic or are you just asking her to go as a friend since you want to go to prom and have no one else?
If this is just a friend thing, do NOT do any cutesy romantic junk. Just ask her.
If it is romantic, I have doubts a college girl is going to go gooey over a corsage or whatever... Prom is no longer the big deal it is to high schoolers.
I intend on asking her as friends just because it would mean the most to me if the girl I was closest to outside my family went with me, and I don't want to ruin our friendship with anything romantic.
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