My boyfriend goes to a different school. When he asked me to be his date
for prom, I kept him waiting so that I could respond in a fun way. When
he came home from a baseball game one night, on the door to his room he found
a note from me. It read; "Star light, star bright, you'll find your answer
among the stars tonight."Â He went into his room and never noticed a thing.Â
Later he was getting ready for bed and turned out the lights. He then saw
that I had put up glow in the dark stars all over his room. But right above
his bed I used the stars to spell out the word, "YES!"
Well, it all started the beginning of my Junior year. I asked my girlfriend,
or soon too be girlfriend, to go to homecoming with me. I asked her on a
floppy disk by a flash animation. I know this was bad, but I was extremely
nervous and shy. Later on during the school year she asked me to Sadies
via the school newspaper, since she was the editor and all she could pull
it off.
Now that Prom is approaching, I wanted to ask my girlfriend to go with me
in an extremely creative way; however, she is also extremely shy. I began
bouncing ideas off of her boss, a nice woman who owns a tea room. I decided
that I would build two teddy bears. One would be dressed in a tuxedo while
the other would be dressed in a prom gown. I stuffed both of the bears;
however, before stuffing the male I put a voice recording into it asking
my sweetheart to go to prom with me. Upon leaving the store where I built
the bears, I began looking for a small tea table and tea set. Needless to
say, I found one and after I bought a small bouquet of flowers to pin to
the male's paw. It looked wonderful. Also, in an effort to make the bears
more realistic, I put glasses on the male bear, for I also wear glasses.
After much planning, my girlfriend's boss suggested that I come to her tea
room and the owner would call my cell phone when the tea party was over for
that day. My boss then told my girlfriend to wash the dishes, something
that she has never done before while she has been working at the tea room.Â
I then proceeded to sneak in and set up the table on top of the real table
along with the small tea set. Her boss had also set up two place settings
for my girlfriend and I to use. After everything was placed, I am somewhat
of a perfectionist, my girlfriend was called back from washing dishes. Upon
walking into the tea room, she was stunned. She asked me what I was doing
there, she was in a state of shock. Needless to say, she immediately accepted
my invitation to Prom. It turned out great! It goes to show that with a
little foresight and planning I could be creative and romantic!
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I just asked my high school crush to the prom. We are both lovers of music
and I wrapped a box with a little note on the card. On the outside of the
box I wrote; "A little note for you!" And I drew musical notes all over the
outside. On the inside of the box I put, "DO-RE-ME-U-AND-ME-PROM?" I left
it in the front office at my high school and he picked it up. I haven't
received an answer yet, but I anticipate one soon!
(Even if he says no, I'll never forget the way I asked him.)
Well, I'm not usually shy with asking guys, but it was the first time I was
ever going to ask someone younger than me. I'm a Junior and I wanted to
ask this freshman to prom. I really didn't want to do it because he is so
young and it would be way embarrassing if he said no. But I told my friends
I really wanted to, in hopes they could convince me to do it. So one day
before Spring Break, our school was having a Pep Rally and our class decorated
with lots of balloons. So while the Freshmen were at lunch, we took some
balloons and wrote on each one, "Brian will you go to prom with me?" A
different word on each balloon and passed them to him. Then the next night
at concert, (he's in band) he had a bunch of balloons that said, "Yes" and
he let them go during the concert. It was great!
My best friend and I had decided a year ago that he and I would go to our
Junior prom together. Well the time came and he changed his mind!! I was
so sad, so I scrambled to find the right date. That didn't work so I tried
to find ANY date! I asked everyone, it was so pathetic! Finally I decided
that I would ask this really cute, older guy that I worked with. (I have
had a crush on him for 5 years!!) So I was going to ask him one night at
work and I was way too nervous. . . so I put it off. I had 3 people pass
off hints to him that I needed a date. That didn't work. He asked who
I wanted to go with and they said I didn't want to go with any one in particular,
that I just wanted a date. Well finally I was going to ask him myself.
One night at work I decided to approach him with my question. . . my stomach
was fluttering with nervous butterflies, I suddenly felt so sick and I turned
all pale. When I got up next to him I almost fainted! I felt so sick!!
He told me I looked like I was going to be sick and told me I could go
home. So I left work early without asking him . . . how pathetic! Later
that night he called and asked me if I was OK. I told him yes that I was
just nervous about something. He asked what? I said, "Asking you to Prom"
He said WOW! Do you still wanna ask me? I said, "Yes, I did." He said
he would go with me and we had an awesome time that night. He sang to me
while we danced to slow songs and it was like a dream, and so wonderful.
All that embarrassment paid off!.
"Wouldn't it be cool if you, Toby, Dan and I could go together as a group
to Junior Prom?" asked Melisa.
What?, I thought, the guys would never go for that. Now before I get carried
away, I should mention that Melissa, Toby, and Dan are my three best friends.
I have known Melissa since 4th grade, Toby since 7th grade, and I met Dan
last year. Sure, it seems a little strange to call Dan and Toby my best
friends after not having known the guys that long, but they have truly become
part of my family. I'm the oldest of three kids and I always wanted to have
a big brother. So in a weird way, now I have two.
Anyway, one day Melissa and I were typing up the phone lines, as usual,
when she came up with the idea of going to prom as a group. "Toby could take
me and Dan could take you. That would work, right?" she inquired with a
slight hint of mischiviousness in her voice. That's when the wheels started
turnhing. It could work, I thought, I mean since Toby and I go to the same
school, it's only logical that he would escort Melissa (Mell for short)
since she went to a difference school, and I would take Dan who is home
schooled. And as far as I knew, none of us had any other plans. After
an hour of gigling and planning we decided it would be up to me to present
the idea to Toby, who would in turn ask Melissa. Then I would have to invite
Dan. Sound simple? Easier said than done. Still, it was no trouble getting
Toby to call Mell. The really hard part was getting the guts to ask Dan.
I mean, he was like a brother to me and I didn't want him to get the wrong
idea. I must have rehearsed the invitation at least 20 times in my head:
"Hey, I was thinking that the four of us could go together to my and Toby's
prom. . ." Two days after that conversation between Mell and me, the guys
came over for our weekly study group. Right as I was about to pop the question,
Dan says, "Hey, so Toby told me about the prom thing. Sounds good to me!
When is it? OK, that sounds cool."
Prom is still two months away and while Mell and I are busy looking for
our dresses, the guys have been busy coming up with ways to be weird and obnoxious--you
know how guys can be. They talked about wearing plaid suits complete with
mullets, and even those tuxedo t-shirts. And to think that I did all that
worrying just to ask a friend out and ended up not even having to do it.
I guess that the moral of the story is, prom is just another one of those
things that seem scary at first but in the end you see there was no reason
to be scared. I don't know what its like for guys, but for us girls, its
not about who your date is or where it is. Its about dressing up, having
your parents look at you in tears, ("Awwww, you look so beautiful...sniff")
and about feeling like a princess just for one night. And hey, if I'm going
to be a princess, what could be better than having my best friends ruling
next to me!