Man…I hate my school (which, btw, I graduate from on Tuesday…)
Average cost of prom at my school:
$60 for one ticket. IF you pay for your date, that’s $120.
Plus, for a girl, an average of… $150 for a dress. That’s less than most people paid, though.
Plus, if you get a limo, that’s at least fifty bucks. Plus shoes and purse and if you get your hair and/or makeup done - who knows how much. Plus, most people get a shore house for the weekend, which is mad expensive.
Prom: usually near a thousand dollars, which is why I didn’t go (also, I don’t like dances. Or dresses.)
I did my own hair and makeup, and wore shoes and a purse that I already had. No limo… I drove to his house (over an hour might I add) and then he drove us to the prom. No dinner, either. After my prom, we went to his prom. After that, we went back to his house, watched a movie, and I drove home.
I doubt there’s any schools where freshmen and sophomores can go, but upperclassmen can’t. I assume that’s not what you meant.
At my school, there are only a certain number of bids* sold. anyone from any grade can go, as long as you buy it before they sell out. I don’t know what the age restriction is on non-high-school dates.
I think a bid costs $150 or so, but they also charge you more if you wait longer, which seems very wrong to me. Plus tux/dress, limo, etc., which is while I’m planning to go once… at most. It hardly seems worth it, personally.
*“Bid” means one ticket that admits two people. Why don’t they just call it a “couple’s ticket”? Because they want to confuse the freshmen?
Eh, she might not buy him beer because she’s pretty high profile and it’d be really bad for her to get caught buying booze for a minor.
I didn’t go to my prom because you weren’t allowed to go without a date-I would have liked to have gone with a bunch of my friends, but you weren’t allowed. I COULD HAVE asked a guy friend, (who was from another school)
but as none of my friends were going, what was the point?
I once read about a kid who brought his great-grandmother to the prom, because she had never been to a fancy dance or something. (I would think the PR would go over big with romantic-minded high school girls).
The school just might not want the publicity that goes along with this. Imagine being known as the principal of the school whose claim to fame is that a porn star came to your prom.
You are absolutely correct - I had heard that some high schools limited their proms to seniors only, but I wasn’t sure.
$150 seems an awful lot to pay for a prom ticket. Every time I went to the prom (all 4 times, I think), I went with the same guy, my then-boyfriend, and I think the ticket cost $40 for the two of us, and included dinner and the dance. But then again, that’s what you get when you have it in a rural town at the local Holiday Inn and the students are responsible for all the decoration. We never rented a limo, either. We always took my then-boyfriend’s huge green monster truck. It was hilarious now that I think about it. And when I see photos of myself at the prom, I think, ugh, early 90’s. What was I thinking? I look like a cheap hooker!
P.S. In retrospect, I guess having a porn star there would have been fine - no one would have been able to tell the difference between her and the rest of us.
