It’s no longer enough to simply ask someone to go to prom with you. Promposals, or the different “cute” methods of asking your date, are basically an institution.  They’ve started being extremely elaborate, and HHS students are eager to keep up with the trend.  Last year, senior Aubtin Heydari even made the Huffington Post for his video promposal idea.

Eager to continue the pace, promposals this year have been extensive.

Senior Stuart Baker chose to make his promposal more personal by asking his girlfriend junior Ellie Plass with her favorite food.

“I went to Food Lion and bought some tater tots, and I went to McDonalds and bought french fries. I had a banner and I used a pun. Puns are always the way to go. Girls love puns. My girlfriend likes potato things, so I figured she would like it,” Baker said. The sign he used read “We should po-ta-totally go to prom together!” surrounded by pictures of other potato foods.

Promposals that are more personal are often popular, rather than using the generic ones found on social media sites like Pinterest and Twitter.

Senior Graham Rebhun asked his date senior Caroline Shank in the ever-popular barbershop quartet method, and surprised her as she was walking in to what she thought was a practice for SpringArts.

“I wrote this little, kind of of song thing that was a spin off of Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond, and I got three other guys Evan [Dotas], Valerio [Aleman] and Noah [Heie] to help me out. We called a practice [for our SpringArts act], but we all got there early and when she got there we popped out and sang,” Rebhun said. “She was freaking out.”

Senior David Carbajal chose to make his promposal to junior Kaelah Ringle similarly interactive. He had on of his friends, who didn’t know Ringle, dress in black and ask her to prom. At her surprise, he jumped out with a lightsaber and challenged his friend to a duel over taking her to prom.

“I  beat him and walked up to her victorious to ask her to prom,” Carbajal said. “I just thought it would be funny, ‘cause she likes Star Wars and stuff. I just wanted to have a good time.”

Junior Tucker Wyatt’s promposal to girlfriend junior Faith Runnells required the help of several other people.

“After my game… I had her  friend Abby [Hissong] say that she left her bag in the auditorium…I ran down there really quickly and I got on stage and tuned my guitar, and when she walked in it was pitch black. She was pretty well the only person there, although my team did show up uninvited,” Wyatt sad. “The lights faded on, Phoebe [Copeland] helped me do that, and it was just me and the black curtain. I had a stool set up there and I went and played  one of her favorite songs. When the last note rang out the curtain opened and there was this prom banner that me and my sister made.” The banner was approximately 18’ long and 4’ wide.

“She was pretty hype,” Wyatt said.

This years promposals aimed to continue the standard set by previous years. They’re always a crowd favorite, and likely will continue far into HHS’ future.