what is this ridiculousness?

Promposals.

Have you heard these before? They're basically when a guy (very elaborately) asks a girl to go to the prom with him, and apparently they are all the rage right now.

It's been 12 years since I went to prom (shoot, has it really been that long?) and I can honestly say that I'm so glad this promposal thing didn't exist back then. (My 18-year-old self would have thought they were silly too.) I almost feel bad for high schoolers now - talk about unnecessary pressure. I went to prom with a friend (who later became my boyfriend and then my husband) and we decided to go together over a phone conversation that went something like this: "Hey, do you want to go to prom together?" "Yah, ok."

Boom. Done.

Actually, no, it wasn't quite over yet. We went to different high schools so we still had to choose which prom to go to. How did we do this? Rock-paper-scissors, yo. Loser went to the other person's prom. (I lost, haha.) No frills. Not romantic in any way but hey, it worked for us.

...and while I didn't get a promposal in high school, I did get the best proposal from my prom date 7 years later, and I'd take that over a promposal any day. :)