We've had sections for prom night and after prom for a while now. We thought that was enough--until someone reminded us that we were missing a "before prom" section. We had to agree. And so so here it is. Before I start listing before prom submissions, I just want to mention, that what you do before prom depends on you. It's not as if there's one specific thing that everyone does. Some people, for example, go out to dinner before prom. Others meet as a group and just hang for a while before the dance. Still others go straight to the hall where the dance is being held. However, there are some general things which many people do: - All over North America people going to prom tend to skip out of school on prom day, especially if it's their senior prom.
- Many girls collect at one person's house, and they spend most of the day preparing together--dressing, doing make-up, etc.
- Guys, on the other hand, hang together for a while, then get ready at the last moment.
- Lots of people also take pics with their families before heading off to prom.
- Yes, tonz more do go out to dinner before heading to the dance, especially crushes.
- Others ride around in limos, partying for an hour or so before going to the dance.
- Lots of places have Grand Marches, and the entire community may collect to watch the prom-ging couple be announced.
- And lots, lots more...
So here's what people are doing. Read, enjoy, and submit your own before prom plans
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This year before prom, my best friends and I are going to get our hair and nails done together and get ready together...just to make sure everything looks right. Last year one of my friends ripped her dress and we had to do a really REALLY quick fix! Definately bringing a sewing kit this year!! We went to dinner with our boyfriends and right before hand we hung out at Target...seriously! Everyone from our school hangs out at Target before hand to get some last minute snacks or whatever. Our prom is on a boat, so once you're on, you're staying! Afterwards, my friends and I are going bowling...in our prom dresses...yes! All of our dresses are about knee-length so its not like we are going to ruin them! -- Heather  Before prom me and my boyfriend is gonna go out to breakfast then me and my bestfriend is gonna go get our nails and hair done then back to my house where we get dress and wait for our dates -- Sheera Lincoln High school Jersey City NJ ok heres the thing everyone who is going to prom has to go to school for the 1st 3 periods of the day.... i no its totally pointless. so we all have to have permission slips to leave school early. then me nd 5 of my best friends go out to lunch but right from there go to get our hair and make-up done then go to one persons house(usually where the limo picks us up) ten just hang out till we need to get dressed. then finally we all take pics w/ our famlies nd our dates then off to prom!!!! -- Nicole Roy C. Ketcham HS wappingers falls NY Before prom, my parents would be treating me to breakfest in bed, I'll sleep in until like 9 or so. Eat breakfest. Chit Chat with my mom about the nervousness and excitement of the upcoming night. Take a shower. Shave and all that stuff. Meet up with my two best gal friends Chloe and Melissa(we've known eachother since gr 6 and been planning this ever since) have lunch at a nice resturant. Then go to the salon with Chloe and Mel. Get our hair and nails and makeup done. Then go back to our own places. Get dressed. The limo would pick up our dates first. The boys Alex Andrew Anthony and Tom would then go get some last minute things for the afterparty. Then pick Anita, Chloe, Mel, and finally myself up from our houses. Take a bunch of pictures. Cruise around in the limo for a lil while then go to the hall for the dinner and dance. After the dance we havent really decided we would either stay at the hotal above the hall, or sleep over at Anita's house. Where we'd have the ho u se to ourselfs and spend quality time with friends and our bfs. Then go to bed or party until the early hours of the next day and just chill. Make lots of memories and a great conclusion to another part of our lifes. A night we will never forget and been looking forward to for a long time. -- Samantha Dante ON Hopefully all our couples will still be dating by prom, if so then me and this really cute guy friend (just friend). and my best friend and her boyfriend will be hanging out together.. since she'l be the only one with a license, she'll be driving since i know we won't get a limo.. unless someone comes up with somemajor money!!.. but yea after i finish settin up with prom committee ill come home and do my hair my self.. and make up.. and get my dress on.. and wait for my date to pick me up.. then we'll drive to my best friends house and get her and her date.. then we're gonan go to walmart ad walk around and eat at the blimbie inside it!! then hit up the dance . then back home to my dates house for... fun. haha sounds good to me.. -- Emily NC i'm a sophmore this year & my boyfriend is a junior. so far my plans before prom are to get my hair & makeup done & all that good stuff, meet everybody at my school cause we're taking a charter bus to a boat down in new orleans & go to prom & have lots and lots of fun!~! -- Stacey Pearl River Central High School Pearl River ok, so my prom isnt til next june, but im so excited!!! cant wait! we only get one prom...unless you go to sixth form instead of college but...neway, back to the prom. ive got my dress its the most beautiful dress you've ever seen. its pink and fitted and it sort of flows out at the bottom and goes right to the floor. and its got little jewels over the top bit and i luv it i luv it i luv it! we've booked our limo already, we even got a ride in it - the driver took us to tesco so he could get petrol :D so neway...before the prom, im gonna go with all my friends to have our hair done, and our nails and makeup and we're all gonna look so good! and then we'll get the limo and drink champagne and meet all the guys at the airport (where are prom is gonna be!!! in one of the posh suites!!) and then we're gonna have the meal and then dance all nite! its gonna be fantastic i cant wait!!! -- Jenna UK Taking final exam, get out at 11:30am....go and get hair, eyebrows, and nails done.... come home and get dressed and make up done. wait for my date and limo to come and go out to fancy resturant then to prom then to hotel afterwards and spend the weekend there. -- Theresa LRHS Raleigh NC This year me and my friends are on our school's Winter Formal committee, so we are gonna help set up in the morning. Then me and my friends Sam and Tayler are gonna go get our hair done. After that, me and two of my other friends are gonna get ready at my house and take pics then go to dinner with our dates at a fancy Italian restaurant. :) -- Brighlee Orange County CA Well every year at my school we have our class day and prom on the same day (prom is always on a friday, usually in may) but after the class day I'm leaving school just like every other senior and I'm going to get my hair done and all that other girl stuff...whether my boyfriend and i do something...it hasnt been decided yet. -- Sara NY Before the prom i was soo nervous. I had never wore 4 inch heels before so i was afraid i would fall. As soon as i got home all of the gurlz came over and did eachothers hair and makeup then we all put on our perfume and dresses. Then the boys came over and we took lots of pictures . It was all soo fun i would do it again. -- Maria Camden Highschool Camden NJ My plan is to have my nails done already and go and get my hair done with a few friends in about 3 hours b4 the dance (b-cuz it'll look neater) then put on some clothes (jeans & a tee) after that go to my bf's house 4 a while and take some pictures there then head back home to get dressed and take more pictures there. Finally, by the time I get dressed I'll have just about another hour cruising in the limo with just me and my bf. TIP: If you're going to the prom with your bf don't go with about 10 or 12 more people that way you'll have time alone with him. I mean either way you're still going to see the same at the dance when you get there! -- Sha'Quyah Irvington NJ We always have a group of atleast seven couples to split the cost of the limo but the girls also get together and help each other get ready, we buy the fake nails at Wal*Mart and do each others nails, one of the girls is great at doing hair so she does the hair and we spend the whole day getting ready while watching chick flicks! When its time for dinner, instead of worrying about making reservations and spending a fortune on a decent meal, we do a progressive dinner (One girl does the appetizers at her house, another does the main course and another does the desserts) its fun, inexpensive way to have a great meal and have fun with just your group. It's always so much better to be creative and do things that other groups aren't and plus we all had a blast! -- Amanda East Forsyth High School Kernersville NC Before prom, all my friends are coming over and we're gonna get ready all together. Helping each other with make up and stuff! Its gonna be a blast!!! -- Danielle Taunton High School Taunton MA Today is actually my prom day!! It is now 9 o'clock and I have been up since 7. I went for a run this morning, just to stretch my muscles and get some fresh air. Around 8 I took a bath, and cleaned myself up. I just double checked all my items, dress, shoes, purse, jewelry, ticket. My hair appointment is at 10 and my friends are at 12(my hair takes long time to do) then we are having a light lunch in the mall food court before our makeup appointment at 2. Most girls I know are not getting their make up done, but it does make a big difference. It will be a hectic day for me, because I also have to drive with my date to see his tux, then go pick up my dress and head back to my friend's house to get ready..all this before 5!! EEEpp, I am excited. -- Kelly Alexander Mackenzie High School Richmond Hill ON skip school...get my hair done..toes..nails..eyebrows shave...then eat..then get dressed.. feel nervous talk on the phone with my date and friedns..then be out to my prom.... -- Johanny george washington high school New York NY The night before, people get together and party. The next day, everybody takes school off (holiday) and get their nails, hair, brows, tanning, wax, and makeup done, pretty early in the day. Then girls get together at eachother's houses and get their dresses on, guys do the same. We then get into groups to go out to eat in limos, and arrive fashionably late to the prom. There are then after parties, etc. in which people celebrate the fact that it was another wonderful year. -- Meg LBJ High School Johnson City TX It's on a Saturday night, and all day you get ready, like your hair nails, make-up and stuff like that then you come back to your house or at a friends house and put on your dress and wait for the limo and get pictures taken while you are waiting for the limo. Then you go and have dinner at a place in Town then you come back to the school and everyone watches you get out of the limo's and stuff then you line up in the gym on a stage and there is a grand march for everyone who is graduating and family/friends take pictures and then after the grand march there is a dance, not a lot of people go to that though, they go back to a house and all get changed into party clothes and there is a huge party that the whole school attends. Its great fun! -- Lydia MRHS Morelle PE My friend and I are getting ready at our own houses, I'm going to another friends to have my hair done, then we're all meeting at my house. We'll leave go to dinner and then go to prom. After prom we'll propbably go back to my house. -- Cristi Triad High School N. Lewisburg OH I will go get my hair done, then come home, have my friend do my make-up and then get dressed. My parents will take some pictures of me before my boyfriend arrives; when he arrives, all my relatives and neighbors come over to see us and take more pictures! Then we'll stop at my friend's house for a short time before heading to my soccer coach's house! *It's a tradition for all the players to meet there for team pictures!* Then we'll stop at my boyfriend's house before beginning o ur drive to the hotel where prom is held! *Just so you know, we have dinner served at our prom! I'm not just skipping meals!* -- Nikki PA Go to top
My Friend and I blindfoled our dates and told them we were going to go have a romantic candelight dinner on an island. We all hopped in the car and we had a candelight dinner set up on a concrete "island" in the middle of a 2 lane road. It was super fun and creative and our dates loved it!
-- Samantha Willamette High School Eugene OR
We are going to take some extra pictures at the mall and then we are going to eat dinner at the Olive Garden. -- Gabrielle Creekside High Fairburn GA Our prom is usually on a Saturday night. In the morning my girls and I are going to get our hair done in a different town because every salon here is booked. Then we get ready and take pictures with everyone. We then all pile into a limo and go to a restaurant about an hour or so away. We have a grand march at 7 so we have to make it back for that! -- Caitlyn Owatonna High School Owatonna MN This year for my senior prom my bf is ordering our own, private limo for just the two of us (last year we went as a group)then we are going to a romantic dinner at Portofino's in Crystal City. It's going to be candle lit!!! Then off to the Hilton Hotel(where prom is held) and spend the rest of the night together! i can't wait! -- Jennifer Woodbridge High Woodbridge VA Before the prom of 2004, my idea is not going to school then go and get my nails and hair done. puting all my things together and all in one place. Make sure I have all my make- up and stuff like that together. -- Ashley fairlery high school Memphis TN Before prom, my friends and I have arranged that we have breakfast after our hair appointments. Afterwards, I scheduled an appointment for make-up at the local Hudson Belk. Immediately following, I'll get dressed at home, and wait until the guests arrive because my mother, aunts, and I have arranged a pre-prom gathering where friends and family can drop by and take pictures. Afterwards, it's off to the photography studio, to the restaurant, and finally to prom. -- Shantay Smithfield-Selma High School Smithfield NC Before Prom, I am spending the entire morning and afternoon getting ready. I plan to basically have a spa day, then about 2 and a half hours before prom starts I am going to my best friend's house and she is going to help me with my hair and makeup. Then I am picking everyone else up in my parents' minivan. Then off we go to prom. -- Vanessa Radford High School Honolulu HI I spend hours getting ready. My date comes to get me. We take some pictures at my place. Then we go to Promanade. It's hectic but fun! -- Jennifer Bloomfield High School Poxico MO at our school prom is on a saturday so we have all day to do a "day activity" this year we are going ice skateing then to dinner. -- Daniel Jordan HS UT Since I'm on Prom Committee and our prom is on a Saturday night I get to get up early and go set up and then leave around 11 to go get ready for prom at 8 hehe. . . Hope I can stay awake all night -- Beka Near Charlotte NC Right after school I'm getting my hair done with my friends and then we'll all get ready together. Then our dates will come, parents take lots of pics of course, then we'll take the limo to the hotel where our prom is. Helpful hint: give yourself more time by getting your nails done a day or two before prom, that way you have more time to get ready and you can show your nails off at school! -- Katie Franklin High School Franklin MA Before prom im going to take my date out to dinner in seattle with some of my friends in a limo. Seattle is about an hour drive from here so its a big deal that we are going all the way out there just for dinner. I dont know where we should go for dinner though. Im kind of stupped on that part. -- Robin Snohomish High School Lake Stevens WA "Promenade" A pre-prom grand entrance where everyone arerives in their own fashion! There have been students arriving on horseback, on a tractor, in demolition derby cars, in race cars, in helicopters, on jet skis (pulled on trailers),hearses, 2-seater bicycles - You Name It!! Very cool, red carpet entrance, everyone in the community shows up to see the students arrive and snap fotos. So- o-o individualized to each student's personality. -- Cheryl Labette County High Edna KS Last year after we went out to eat, the guys had a surprise for us before we actually went to the dance... They took us bowling.. It was one of the most fun things i have ever done and the pictures we took there looked awesome!! -- Kari Wayzata Minneapolis MN I shall go out to dinner with my date! -- Louise Culloden Academy Scotland take pictures with family -- Vanessa Ennis High school Ennis TX before we even got ready we would have a big messy fight, so it would be worth it to get nice and clean afterwards, it would be so much funny, like a big silly string fight and lots of water balloons too.but anyways, my idea of before prom excitement would be to get all of my friends together and take pictures and then go out to a resturant, nothing fancy,just a place to chill out. and then we would all get in our cars and jam out to some good music and get ready to go. -- Danielle Forbush High school East Bend NC I am going to go to my friends house and we are going to get our hair and nails done together then we are going back to her house to get ready together and wait for our dates to come pick us up in a limo. -- Juliette Tyler Consolidated High School Greenwood WV Since our prom is actually a sit down dinner with entertainment and other such things. Before prom my friends and i are going to meet up and take pictures and then all drive together to the place where we are having it. -- Sereba ECS Hartsville SC Me and some of my friends all work together alone with my bf and her date and since they don't go to our school wiht us they can't get off school early to get ready so we are going to go together and get ready for prom and then to go get there things for them and then after that we will go get them from school and get ready, then the wierd part is we will stop by work and let them all see us before we go to prom that night and since we work at a place open 24-7 we will go back afte r prom and hang out some there and talk about prom and all with friends at work, well as of now that is our plan but prom isn't for 8 months. -- Julie Boyertown High School Boyertown PA Go to top
We all went to a friends hows got ready then are dates came over and we ordered piza's and then took pictures and then took a limo to the dance. It was a lot of fun!
-- Maggie San Francisco High School San Francisco CA
Before prom this year my date and I are planning on going to the mall and running around for a while then eating at the food court then going to the dance, but our mall is nearly an hour away, so we have to be quick. We're going to be wearing our total get up dress, hair, tux and everything. -- Sassy Lake City High School Lake City MI its on a saturday so go to the salon tan one last time haha... get pedicure, nails, hair, and makeup done... then go home have a little time and put on my dress... then my date will pick me up and we go to our friends house where we get the limo and take lots of pics!!! it will be a lot of fun cant wait -- Britt PA Last year i was a soph dating a senior so i went to prom. I got my hair done and my makeup, then i went home and changed really quick and went to take pictures at my bf's friends house (we were going together as a group) After the other two couples and us got our pictures done, we went in a limo to dinner at a fancy restuarant. We still had some time befor the grand march started so we cruised around town hanging out the sun roof with sparkling cider in our hands. It was pretty c old but we had a blast. The whole time we joked and told stories and made the before prom unforgettable. One thing i reccomend is go with people that you are comfortable with because it will make all the difference between having a blast and being bored out of your mind. -- Kristen Well, the plan as of now, is that I am going to another town's prom. I'm not sure how they do things. But my plan for my prom was to go out to eat at Taco Bell, walk around Wal-Mart all dressed-up with friends and their dates. Then I were to head to a building that was close to where our prom was being held and hop on a moped I had borrowed from a friend. Then I would circle laps in this bright red, nice moped around the building... honking and waving at the crowd. Then I would hop off and make a big entrance.. that was the plan but I'm going to another one and I'm just going to have to go with the flow. -- Jessica Knob Noster High School Knob Noster MO Before the prom I go to get my hair done with my mom. Then I go to my house and get dressed. When I'm all set my date comes over to take pictures and then we ride up to the place. -- Heather LHS Lee MA getting ready from the prom then meet up with all my friends on the lake front say a prayer before we go on our way for the rest of the night -- Kizzy xaiver university prep New Orleans LA At the moment the plan is:Some friends and I will get ready at my house, have the guys meet us at my house go to dinner,ride around town in a limo (before the dance starts) and then after the dance we will ride some more in the limo and just hang out. -- IH East High Cheyenne WY Our plans are to meet at my bestfriend's house and the limo is going to pick us up there. The whopping 12 of us. Two Ryans and two Robbie's all in one limo. It's pretty funny. Then we're going to eat ath macoroni grill, because it's my friend, kristin's birthday that night of pom. thenn we're all going to head to downtown san jose where our prom is. It's going to be a blast, all of my friends are going. -- Holly MHS Milpitas CA It's the last day of school and we get out at 10:30 from finals. The whole crew hung out and had a tailgate party. After an hour or so the gals left together and prepared. The boys went and bought stuff for the after party. Then the limo went around picking up every one and we meet with family at the park to take cluster pictures. Then off to Kickers bar and grill for preprom dining. Fashionably late it's off to prom -- Amy John Glenn Westland MI our town has Dutch Days festival every spring, and the parade is always the morning of prom. i guess this is kind of cool, but a pain for those of us in band. you spend your morning marching. then you get about 2 hours to get ready before the Grand March. very stressful. then everyone drives to prom where we all eat dinner, and then have the dance. afterward most people go to after prom with lots of games and fun stuff to do. it is a very crazy day. -- Kim FHS Albany IL A group of my friends and I went to dinner in a town about an hour away. Then, we went to a mall so the guys could pick up a few last minute items. Everyone was looking at us - it was so fun. After that, we piled into our cars and drove to the place where it was being held. -- Stefanie Meadville Area Senior High Meadville PA Before prom, my friends and I have arranged that we have breakfast after our hair appointments. Afterwards, I scheduled an appointment for make-up at the local Hudson Belk. Immediately following, I'll get dressed at home, and wait until the guests arrive because my mother, aunts, and I have arranged a pre-prom gathering where friends and family can drop by and take pictures. Afterwards, it's off to the photography studio, to the restaurant, and finally to prom. -- Shantay Smithfield-Selma High School Smithfield NC I didn't go to School the day of my first senior prom. At about 2 o'clock i walked down the street to get my hair done with a few seniors. I then walked back down main street in cargo camo and camo jacket, with my hair dyed and done and make-up all done. I must have looked crazy. I got into my prom dress and high-heel boots. Then I joined my friends when they came in the limo an hour later. We took pictures, and made sure we pressed every button in the limo! -- Karyn South High Community School Worcester MA before prom i hope to go out to eat at a really nice restuarant. and get all the love i want -- Lorrie mount miguel high Spring Valley CA Before Prom, I am spending the entire morning and afternoon getting ready. I plan to basically have a spa day, then about 2 and a half hours before prom starts I am going to my best friend's house and she is going to help me with my hair and makeup. Then I am picking everyone else up in my parents' minivan. Then off we go to prom. -- Vanessa Radford High School Honolulu HI I spend hours getting ready. My date comes to get me. We take some pictures at my place. Then we go to Promanade. It's hectic but fun! -- Jennifer Bloomfield High School Puxico MO at our school prom is on a saturday so we have all day to do a "day activity" this year we are going ice skateing then to dinner. -- Daniel Jordan UT Before Prom my girlfriends and I are all going to rent a hotel room at one of the local resorts. We are all going to get our hair done before and meet in our room to get our makeup done by a local makeup artist. We're all going to hang out and get ready together and have our limo pick us up there. After prom we're goanna come back to our room and crash! -- Janet Desert Mountain Scottdale AZ Before Prom, I plan to get my hair and nails done that morning. Afterwards, I will get dress and meet family and friends at the banquet hall. I will have refreshments(dinner) prepared. My date will meet me at the banquet hall to take more pictures, then we will head downtown to meet our horse and carriage. -- Joanette Chicago Vocational Career Academy Chicago IL Go to top | 
