Corsage for a lime green and lemon yellow dress.
Remember prom from the good ole’ days? Well things have changed slightly since our day of getting ready (once) in your Sunday best, or maybe a dress for the occasion (not requiring a hoop or petticoat) and being picked up, given a corsage and attending a dance until 11 (maybe having dinner – would all depend) and then you were done and like Eliza Doolittle felt wonderful and could hardly sleep from the excitement!
Corsage for silver and white dress, and the girl loves black roses and azul.
Things have changed a bit. Now it is all day long dates, formal ball gowns, pictures (single, group, fun and serious…$), maybe even starting out with breakfast, and several hundred dollars later, you are falling into bed half asleep already around midnight – and that is just the parents! Well, things are no different down here in Sterling Utah – except who has hundreds to spend? Not I said the average mom!
Well, here in Central Utah where culture and tradition is thick as blood, that means the whole town stops for the whole shebang to take place! But there aren’t hundreds of dollars floating around waiting for a cause so ingenuity bursts forth in the form of formal ball gown swapping, borrowing, or making by hand, parents becoming restaurant and waiters, fine chefs creating fancy meals and ambience, not to mention the florist that must burst forth in all of us, and why? Because it’s fun, right? (Well, until you have to put it all away.)
It's all about every junior girl getting a date for “Junior Prom” (not a bad tradition really – that’s a no-brainer that any girl would have appreciated in any time period) and joining a group and having a plan to make them feel special.
Then comes the inner turmoil after the ‘set up’; trying to convince yourself that you don't have to attend the prom to see the kids dance, but know you will end up going to see the decorations that the kids have spent a week putting up and wanting to see the corsages that you made yourself on the girls ON the dance floor being gorgeous and appreciated.
Lets not forget the only dry cleaners in our county going on a cruise the week of Junior Prom and having to drive to another county to have suits cleaned. That was a keeper for the Journal!
Inviting all the Moms who might like to participate in the 'big dinner' so know one feels left out (I always want to join in the madness and assume they would too).
Lest you think that NOT being the mother of any Juniors frees you from the festivities, think again. I had two boys (no, they are not twins) attending the Prom--go figure! Brotherly love? Well, whatever it is, my boys want to do proms together and so there is more than juniors going to junior prom, but you know it isn’t the same as BEING a junior and going to junior prom, and then when you are a senior there are those girls who need dates,… so on it goes!
Lest I mislead, I must reassure that I happen to enjoy Prom no matter how crazy it gets, which is good because, as my husband pointed out, I have possibly 4 more in a row to do!
I love the challenge of putting together a fancy table and decor out what ever is on hand for the kids......How convenient that I have all boys!
