Lovelyish

Do “run around the hotel pool in your underwear, chug a whole bottle of
Kahlua or draw on your friend with a permanent marker when she’s passed
out.”
Really? What are you? 9th grader attending the first prom ever?

The last “Do” is irrelevant. If you’re underage, your parents have every right to know about the most controversial night of being a teenager and if you’re close to your family, you would have no problem telling them the details of your prom night.

Don’t take generic prom photos

I’m begging my prom group to have our photos done on the subway:)unique, modern, and fun 

I disagree with the second do. prom or not, you should not run around drunk. there are plenty of ways to enjoy your prom without drugs and/or alcohol. and sober or not, you shouldn’t act like a dumbass. I don’t think there’s ever a ‘right’ time to act like a straight-up nutjob.

@ivarahBharavi@xanga - You don’t pop enough pills.

Kahlua? Eww. If you’re going for a pussy drink, at least have a cape cod or champagne.

@ShimmerBodyCream@xanga - probably not, since I’m drug and alcohol clean

I slept at home my prom night, and I did get lucky, but it was with my then-boyfriend of three years.  I didn’t drink or go to an afterparty.  Prom was fun, and I loved my dress, actually a white flowing Grecian looking kind, so that was good I should’ve worn flats though.  Heels suck when you’re not comfortable with em

Prom is actually one of my fond memories from the damned high school I attended ha

@ivarahBharavi@xanga - Me too for today.

BTW that movie Prom Night was horrible ;/

@JoeytheGenie@xanga - I agree! Non-typical pics are better! I think my date & I took better personal photos. The official ones are good but the photographer made me bend my knees a bit because I was taller than my friend. He thought it was ridiculous too. lol Comment rec’d! =)

I agree with the dress thing. Wear what you love! Nowadays prom dresses are cheaper & dress codes are more relaxed so you can find cute things within budget. When I went to my senior prom, I wore a dress I got tailored off a clearance rack for $100 in a bridal shop & I LOVE it! I actually still have it & I’ve worn it several times since. It’s a two piece burgundy dress that’s dressy but not too fancy so I can use it for many different affairs. I wore it once to a wedding in the south & I was more dressed up than the wedding party & the people there. Apparently in the south, traditions are very relaxed. lol

I also wouldnt do typical afterparty stuff like hotels. I live in NYC so we just hung out around town & in a teen club & went back to the hotel to sleep. All night fun with no one falling over drunk & we had a limo!

@JoeytheGenie@xanga - (: I did the same thing, doing random things to break the social norm. 

I REALLLY wanted to go to McDonalds with my friends, but the girls said No. ): Party Poopers, went to a high class seafood place by the pier instead. All the guys were contemplating about going to McDs anyways and meeting them at the restaurant a little bit later. . . Oh well.

DO: Have fun whatever that may mean to you
DO: Try new things, since it may be the last time you’ll do something crazy before you all head off in different directions
DON’T: Break your own morals and ethics
DON’T: Do anything illegal and get caught for it

Bad things are fun, but you shouldn’t be getting drunk.

@AznFier@xanga - some of my guy friends are thinking of hitting McD’s after… unfortunately for them, I can’t stand fast food and I’m on a mission to find us a bowling place or skating rink. 

Do: Have fun. Don’t: Jump off the boat twice for attention and then drag the police into something so petty when they have more important things to do besides make sure your ass didn’t drown.

@ivarahBharavi@xanga - I quite agree with that. Why does everyone assume that they need alcohol to make things good or have a good time? I’ve had great times without it.

@TequilaKisses@xanga - Very true. 

I actually don’t know my post-prom plans yet… but I’m going with a good guy so I doubt we’ll be up for anything bad haha. Probably going to head home.

Uhh, I disagree with the first DO: Splurge on the Dress.  I spent $300 on my prom dress back in 2004…I completely regret it.  I could have spent half of that money on something more useful than a dress that I wore for ONE night.  Wait a few years, I think you’ll see my point.

You can totally get a dress for much cheaper that looks really great…you just need to know how to shop for your body/style.

I had my prom a few weeks ago and honestly it didn’t come close to expectations. I feel like everyone makes prom out to be this big deal but for me it was just kind of a drunken night. I completely regret my prom date (my friends were all going with his friends so I just went with this guy,  big mistake). I ended up going home earlier than I would have had it been a regular weekend, it’s definitely not in my top 10 nights of senior year. Wow I sound cynical haha but my point is I’ve had waay more fun times than prom.

I understand that this list could’ve made YOUR prom better.. but I only agree with the first don’t and kiiinda with the first do. I mean I spent $600 on my dress with alterations.. and I was pretty happy with my dress. Make sure it’s exactly what you want though. I wanted my dress to be tighter (since it was a mermaid dress) but the lady didn’t want to because I’d have to sit. However I do disagree with the do bad things. Since we had a cruise after the dinner/dance, one guy in my grade got drunk and high during the cruise and now those on the cruise aren’t allowed to bring people from other schools or whatever. A lost privilege. And the last thing, since you’re still not legally an adult, they do have the right to know. 

DO: have fun

DON’T: freak out if you don’t have a date, go with your friends, it’s equally as fun 

DO: find dresses early (because a friend of mine had her dress altered too short 2 days before prom)

DON’T: do anything illegal

DO: find a reliable driver to take you home or keep the taxi number on you

I wouldn’t encourage that behavior and use the excuse of it being prom night.. Prom isn’t a reason to risk getting into serious trouble like underage drinking or public intoxication. Maybe my opinion doesn’t count because I never went to my own prom. Just didn’t think it was worth it and I still don’t regret skipping it. 

@KayC - Agree with you.

@JoeytheGenie@xanga - Like like!! <3 and some times it’s more worth than getting it taken at school. I regret doing that ): sigh

Wow encouraging underage drinking and lying your parents as a minor all in one post. I think i might be genuinely disgusted.

after prom, we went to this well known place for teens and gangbangers to hang out and had some food lol then he was a gentleman and drove me home. no drunken sex. my feet were hurting me, so I didn’t go with my female friends to hang out at the other well known gang hangout my friends have a thing for cute literal bad boys. my immature high school chola days are over lol I showed the prom pics to my family and they thought that my date was a nice looking young man, and that’s all they commented on and didn’t specifically ask what happened because it was just a dance party. my date and I were broke teens, so we didn’t have money to party later and I already spent a couple hundred dollars on my dress & new high heels + I got my hair done at the salon + half for the prom ticket + half for prom pics, but I didn’t mind that I didn’t go to an after party event, because my prom was memorable.  

the black dress maybe looks good..

I remember Prom itself being boring! I really only showed up because I already had this kick ass dress and my boyfriend flew in from Kentucky to go. The best part though, was after Prom when we left and instead spend 2 hours lost in Compton. Scary! But spending time with my boyfriend in formal wear was awesome… 

A lot of people lose their lives drinking and driving on prom night so idk what the fuck your problem is. My friends are doing this. Might not want to advertize this to kids, which there are on this website.

I didn’t drink or sleep with a guy the night of my prom. We went to Ihop afterwards and the girls had a sleepover.

I went to mine and left after an hour. It was a complete waste of time and money.

@this_time_no_lies@xanga - Same… Not that I havent done it. But theres something about encouraging people to do it on a public forum where some little chicka who may not be as mature as I was (or the writer) to deal with the consequences that may come from such actions that really, really bothers me.

Don’t expect it to be the best night of your life, and don’t worry when the little details don’t work out.  Do dance, do enjoy yourself, but there’s no need to spend a fortune or go crazy.

Ugh, must we go there?  My date was a jerk so I ended up ditching him in favor of having fun with my friends, danced the night away.  I would say to not spend too much on the look because you WILL NEVER wear the prom dress again (same with your wedding gown and bridesmaid dresses)…unless you are like the original poster to have bought a sexy black dress.  Of course, when I went to prom it was the style to be wearing long, princess like gowns.  I noticed in recent years the dresses have morphed into clubbing dresses (almost).  Either way I say stick with classic looks, wouldn’t want to break out your prom pic for the grandchildren and have them say, “Grandma!  What were you thinking!?!”    The original poster is right to not get involved sexually just because it’s prom night…I say do fun things, just not things that land you in cuffs or have your driving privileges revoked or postponed, that kind of fun is not worth all that trouble.

Yeah… Im with some other people, I don’t really like that you’re encouraging anyone, let alone high school students/underage kids to get drunk. Real mature.

DO: find a dress that you love and not just the first thing you see and the one your date/mom/friend likes [my mistake]
DON’T: be upset if you do not have a date; i didn’t and i had a great time, i was a little sad at first but being with my girls made me forget within the first 5 seconds lol

@KickDrumHeart@datingish - sounds like my prom =]  [and it was great]

@TequilaKisses@xanga - I agree with you. Prom or not, underage drinking or overall just acting like a jackass is not something people should do. 

My prom was so boring and unremarkable. :/

Wow, I seriously don’t remember acting a fool over prom.  I can tell you’re one of those annoying girls, I’m sure you’ll become a fine housewife to somebody just as bothersome as you.

@rhea - agree.  ”Because it was prom night” isn’t an excuse to act stupid and do something that could ruin the rest of your life.  

@TequilaKisses@xanga - Agreed 100% :/ I expected better than this.

And this list secures my concepts of prom and my happiness that I went to neither one. Do people really need an excuse like prom to act like idiots? If you’re going to be stupid, be stupid. End of story.

DO grow up, prom isn’t everything.

@this_time_no_lies@xanga - AGREED!

I went to prom my sophomore, junior, senior, and my first year of college (my boyfriend at the time was still in high school.)

I never drank in high school because obviously, you high school kids can’t handle it.  It’s a shitty scene.  Plus, every time I drink during a special event (concerts, sports events) and I get really drunk, I regret not enjoying it to the fullest.
Hotel parties are over-rated and just plain stupid.  So are expensive dresses.  My favorite dress I wore out of all 4 proms cost 70 bucks.

DO: Accessorize.
DON’T: Get drunk
DO: Go with friends, and people you care about
DO: Act crazy
DON’T: Act stupid
DO: Dance the night away
DON’T: Forget your wonderful memories, and the friends you spent them with.
DO: Take a LOT of pictures
DON’T: Sweat the small stuff.  No one is going to notice those 3 hairs you missed while shaving.

Hahaha. No.

I would never spend more than $100 on a dress that I’m gonna wear one night. Actually, I reused my Sweet Sixteen dress for one prom and borrowed my friend’s sister’s prom dress for the second one. (I had 2 because my boyfriend was a year older, and we went to his and mine.) That Sweet Sixteen dress only cost about $100-150. And I wore it 3 times before it stopped fitting me. I don’t care how other people think I look. If I think I look good in a cheap dress, screw them.

Sex on prom night is just stupid, especially if you got home at 4AM. Who has energy for that? Just go the fuck to bed. For my first “prom night” I went to an after party hosted by my school, then came back to my house and we passed out in my living room. The second one we all went to the same party and then went back to this one girl’s house and slept, boys in one room and girls in the other.

Let me tell you how much people getting drunk fucking ruined my own prom night, mmkay? I hate when people drink in front of me. It makes me sick, and I often cry. I have had a lot of really awful experiences with people drinking/being drunk in my life, and I’m always scared any situation with alcohol will end up the same as those. So the stupid people I decided to get a party bus with (which I really hate, but I wasn’t gonna go to prom by myself…) decided to stop at the boardwalk and get drunk before going to the after party. They made us leave the prom itself early because they wanted to go and drink. I didn’t know that. If I had, I would never have left with them. But I thought they wanted to have time to change and whatnot. So I went along with it. And then the bus driver got angry and wanted them to pay him to keep quiet about their drinking. And I’m sitting there ready to cry. They have the nerve to ask me for money. Uhm, no. You screwed yourself, don’t expect me to fucking help you now. And then I got off the bus and wouldn’t get back on. I called my mom to come pick me up and take me to the after party, because I wasn’t going to show up with a shitload of drunk fucking idiots. THEN there was a fight on the boardwalk and I had to get back on the bus because there was a huge mob throwing glass bottles and beating the crap out of each other. So we ended up meeting my mom at a nearby McDonald’s. And I’m now in hysterics and all the drunk idiots are trying to cover their asses so they don’t get in trouble and making sure I won’t tell anyone. Not even giving a shit that they ruined my whole freaking night. I wish I was strong enough to tell them how I really felt, but I was too hysterical. And now it just makes me insanely angry. So getting drunk on prom night is a really fucking dumb idea. Really.

And because of that situation, I’m damn GLAD my mom knew where I was and what was going on. If I hadn’t told her, it would have taken her longer to come pick me up and I would have been absolutely miserable. If you’re doing things your parents shouldn’t know about, you should really rethink even doing them. Parents have reasons for getting mad/being worried, they don’t just do it because they like to. Have some fucking respect.

It’s people like you who ruin other people’s prom nights. Why can’t you just go, dance, eat, go to a party, then go home? I just don’t understand the appeal of getting piss drunk and then not remembering what went on. Please, explain to me this need underage people have to get drunk, have sex and pass out on the “best night of your high school life”. I don’t get it.

xX Ame ~*~ Hana Xx

1) all you people saying “don’t get drunk” are wieners. prom is a celebration. one night of alcohol won’t kill you, just make sure you don’t overdo it, like the OP said. and for FUCK’S sake, don’t drink outside of a private residence if you’re underage.

2)my prom was kickass. we took pictures with an ice cream truck, danced to almost every song at the prom, went out to a restaurant at one in the morning(a girl in our group’s family owned it) and played pool and air hockey in their game room until 4 in the morning, and then went to a friend’s house and got hammered/smoked hookah and watched a Family Guy marathon.

it was the most fun i’ve had in a while!

At my school you’re invited to prom both junior and senior years (any freshman-20 years of age can go, they must be escorted by a junior or senior). I digress…I only went my junior year. I hated prom. 

There were so many “fairytale” expectations to be met by one single night, and not one of them came true.I completely disagree on DO #1. I paid 450 for a dress I wore 2x (thank god for princess themed 3 year old birthday parties).  My date cancelled on me about a month before, and I was NOT going to be the girl without a date (because to be able to get into prom, you have to do the “Grand March” which is televised, and I wasn’t going alone.)  I ended up going with a friend who was a freshman (and didn’t get the stupid middle-of-the-dance-floor kiss i’d always dreamed of.)It was raining. ‘Nuff said.The lady who did my hair basically just screwed it up royally. And there wasn’t anytime to fix it when she was done because everyone in town had to get their hair done. So it looked awful. (and I didn’t look like a princess because i was in a 15 pound dress and there was a poodle on my head.)
I’m not a big “prom” supporter.but please, dear god please, don’t get wasted on prom night. at least be able to remember whether you hated it or not.

DO remember that prom is one night when you are 18 and in highschool. It is not the end all be all of your entire life. Have fun and just enjoy it. If a girl has the same dress as you laugh it off. If your date is a party pooper, dance with everyone else.

DON’T forget to be safe and smart. Druken prom accidents can get you injured or killed (and graduating is alittle more important than that crazy after part)  and speaking of being drunk on prom, those facebook pics of you in your undies with a bottle of whatever can ruin your chances of college acceptance and oh yeah PUT YOU IN JAIL.

kids…gotta love em

*PEACE of mind…

Not EVERYONE can afford to splurge on the perfect dress, rent a limo with all their friends, and stay in a hotel afterward.So to all the girls like myself who are middle-class and not made of money: DO realize that you can have just as much fun without blowing a ton of cash on one night.

I know Prom seems like your whole life. But it’s not. I went to 3.

If anything do things that are memorable. If you think “should I be doing this?”Then you shouldn’t be. Life is about making mistakes. But don’t make all your mistakes in one night.

I can’t believe that you think its morally okay to not only drink underage during prom night, but to lie to your parents. If you’re lucky enough to have parents that allow you to have an unsupervised hotel room while still underage, they should at least know every detail. I can’t believe you are promoting this type of behavior.Or that you think its fine to run around a hotel in your undies. Is this the type of behavior you would allow and expect from your children?  Also, you might want to better edit before your next post. You can’t give someone “piece” of mind. 

Do: get crazy

Don’t: get a bad haircut before it

@ohforrealson@xanga - Ever seen prom wars?

The “do bad things” one should probably be changed to “do enjoy yourself.” My friends and I are the type to get drunk if we have the chance since we don’t have many of them for another year but I think drinking and being reckless would have ruined the night actually. We danced our asses off at prom and then went to Steak N Shake after failing to go bowling (the only alley open that late was hosting a lock-in for a nearby school’s prom and we didn’t know it till we got there with 10 minutes to bowl). Then we all stayed at my bff’s house (after getting permission from our parents since even the dates were staying over) and played Kareoke Revolution & Guitar Hero while the boys had a nerf fight. The next morning, we then took pictures of one of the boys holding onto a giant teddy bear since we couldn’t wake him up. It was the best night I’ve had so far and we’ve had some pretty fun drunken nights. Doing bad things isn’t necessary to making your night better.

@MommyMarty22@xanga - No, but it sounds potentially dangerous lol, dish?

It’s kinda got Indie feel to it.. Dude from Phil of the Future is in it, if you know who he is…

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2606106393/ there is a link to a trailer…
I thought it was strangely funny, some people might find it boring though…My Husband who isn’t into the whole indy style film.. Actually I think it was a Canadian film… He thought it was hilarious.